The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) develops common regulations and standards for civil aviation. Countries around the world abide by ICAO’s directives to ensure the safe and orderly growth of international civil aviation, writes Wang Kwo-tsai. The 41st session of the triennial ICAO Assembly, to be held between September 27 and October 7 this year…
The EU’s food watchdog says that current law fails to protect animals during transport – an issue that citizens have long protested against. The European Food Safety Authority issued five new reports outlining the scientific evidence about the suffering of animals when they are transported – for sale, fattening or slaughter. The scientific opinions cover…
The European Commission has launched a “call for evidence” inviting feedback on the performance of the EU legal framework which exempts liner shipping consortia from EU antitrust rules. The Commission has also sent targeted questionnaires to interested parties in the maritime liner shipping supply chain (i.e. carriers, shippers and freight forwarders, port and terminal operators)…
Over the first weekend of UK school holidays in late July, there was chaos at the port of Dover with traffic backed up for miles, closely followed by gridlock in nearby Folkestone. After weeks of delays in UK airports because of shortages of baggage handling and border control staff there was a hope that travelling…
The EU has launched one of the biggest Cohesion Policy-funded projects in the EU and in Croatia with an EU contribution of €357 million, the ‘Pelješac bridge’. Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms, Elisa Ferreira, said: “The Pelješac bridge will improve the economic development and the territorial cohesion of South Dalmatia and Croatia as a whole.” “This is…
Thanks to direct mediation by the Kingdom of Morocco, under the leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI, the Israeli authorities have decided to open, without interruption, the Allenby/King Hussein border crossing, linking the West Bank and Jordan. This mediation, led by the Kingdom of Morocco and the United States of America, led to an…
On the occasion of Ban Live Exports Awareness Day 2022, 15 Members of the European Parliament joined together in calling on the European Union to ban the export of live farmed animals to third countries. The MEPs, representing various EU member states and political parties, says they “recognise the suffering and terrible conditions that the animals…
At ETF’s 6th Ordinary Congress in Budapest, Frank Moreels and Livia Spera were elected President and General Secretary of the European Transport Workers’ Federation. ETF delegates representing transport trade unions across Europe confirmed Frank Moreels as President and Livia Spera as General Secretary to run the Federation for the next five years. Before being re-elected…
Plug-in car sales exceeded 2.27 million in 2021, showing that more and more are choosing to go electric. With the rise in petrol costs and ever-growing concerns of car emissions, how much would be making the switch to an electric vehicle save you in emissions and money? Interested in finding out, money.co.uk considered the cost…
The proportion of businesses using cloud technology must significantly increase in order to meet the European Commission’s Digital Decade 2030 goal, according to a new report out on Wednesday. The EU’s Digital Decade, which sets key targets on different digital areas until 2030, is the EU’s vision for Europe’s digital transformation and a critical element…
