IRU is the trusted voice for mobility and logistics, upholding the interest of bus, coach, taxi and truck operators as well as the broader mobility and logistics industry.
By promoting and enhancing cooperation between industry and decision makers, IRU contributes to facilitating trade and building prosperity.
IRU champions excellence in road transport through international certification standards that create real competitive advantage.
IRU enters powerful knowledge alliance to back Belt & Road Initiative
IRU joined the Silk Road Think Tank Network (SiLKS) today, driving peaceful cooperation and strategic knowledge-sharing for the realisation of Belt & Road ambitions and ultimately, sustainable development for the region.
EU transport committee backs infrastructure network upgrade
IRU welcomes the European Parliament Transport Committee’s (TRAN’s) vote on the revision of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) Regulation. The vote paves the way for trilogue negotiations to begin with the Council and European Commission.
Road transport is a key driver of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
IRU’s secretary general, Umberto de Pretto, today met with the new executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Olga Algayerova, to firm up cooperation on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), road safety and the digitalisation of transport and customs transit tools.
Mongolia backs TIR to spur trade with China and Russia
A trade revolution along the Asian Highway network – connecting China and Russia via Mongolia’s key transport corridors – is the focus of a series of TIR training workshops in Ulaanbaatar, jointly organised by the National Road Transport Association of Mongolia (NARTAM) and IRU.
Coronavirus (COVID-19): IRU calls on governments to help keep road transport supply chains and mobility networks moving
Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to spread across the world. In a fast changing situation, the pandemic’s impacts on the daily life of people, businesses and governments grows longer by the hour.