Multimodal logistics company NLC has delivered goods from Pakistan to Central Asian countries via Afghanistan in record time.

The “3 Ds” facing our industry – driver shortages, decarbonisation and digitalisation – top this year’s agenda for IRU and the American Trucking Associations (ATA).

After more than a year of intense negotiations, the Council endorsed yesterday a general approach to the Platform Workers Directive, limiting what constitutes a “digital labour platform” in a welcome effort to clarify the relevant definition and criteria. But it has failed to explicitly exclude taxi dispatch centres from the directive’s scope.

IRU welcomes the provisional agreement reached last week to increase the deployment of intelligent transport systems (ITS) on European roads. EU Member States must now include road transport data on their National Access Points by the end of 2025.