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IRU has announced the 2023 Grand Prix d’Honneur winners at its 75th anniversary event and launched a new campaign on unique individuals shaping the future of road transport. 

IRU, the world road transport organisation, celebrates its 75th anniversary today, eyeing mobility and logistics opportunities that lie ahead. The International Road Transport Union, the voice of over 3.5 million road transport companies operating mobility and logistics services, was founded in Geneva on 23 March 1948.

IRU has presented the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) with a special plaque commemorating 75 years of the two organisation’s collaboration, the UN’s longest continuous public-private partnership. In a special ceremony at the United Nations in Geneva today, IRU Secretary General Umberto de Pretto has presented UNECE Executive Secretary Olga Algayerova with a special plaque commemorating 75 years of partnership.