Green house gas emissions of freight transport : How could France reach its commitments for 2012?

In 2007, the French government organized a big event related to sustainable development issues, called Grenelle de l’environnement. All the working sessions were held as think-tanks. In this regard, companies, environmental associations, professional federations and various ministry departments participated to the distinct sessions. The aim consisted in defining objectives for the whole range of the [...]

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Transport Expertise Association is born!

Madam, Sir, Dear Visitors, On behalf of all Transport Expertise Board members, I am pleased to announce that we created Transport Expertise Association (Non-Profit Organization under French regulation). As defined in the articles of association adopted during the General Assembly on Dec. 19, 2008, the Association will study and promote at the international level, best [...]

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Follow-up: "Autoroutes maritimes", aka marine highways

Mr. C. Kenneth Orski sent Transport Expertise some more details about the Marine Highways Program, that we mentionned in our French article “Des autoroutes maritimes pour décongestionner les routes américaines” (Marine Highways to unclog American’s roads). Please find below an excerpt from Vol. 19, No. 19 of Innovation NewsBriefs : Ports Infrastructure: Competing with Highways [...]

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DHL Amsterdam, combined transport: boat & bike

Around 25 percent of the city of Amsterdam consists of navigable waterways (65 miles of canals) thus making it the most watery city in the world. DHL took advantage of this opportunity… and developed its “Floating Distribution Centre.” A DHL Truck on a canal bridge, Amsterdam, NL What’s that boat? Amsterdam’s first floating distribution centre [...]

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In brief: Kuehne + Nagel to take over Alloin

Swiss K+N to buy French Alloin Group Swiss logistics group Kuehne + Nagel signed a contract agreement to take over the French distributor Alloin Group (mail, bulking). Kuehne + Nagel thus reaches one of its strategic goal by extending its ground distribution network in France and Belgium. The company is specialized in domestic mails deliveries [...]

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France-Portugal: toward a new "sea-highway"

A taskforce to promote a short-sea shipping link between France and Portugal Earlier this year, on April 14, 2008, Dominique Bussereau (French Transportation Secretary) and his Portuguese counterpart Ana Paula Vitorino decided to create a taskforce to promote the development of a sea-highway between both their countries. Two initiatives launched on October 2, 2008 As [...]

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In brief: Heineken brewery carries beers on waterways

From its Zoeterwoude brewery, Heineken, the Dutch brewer will carry the beers produced in its factory and sent to Antwerp and Rotterdam via waterways. By 2009, the company expects to carry most of its production to Antwerp and Rotterdam on the river. It plans to reduce the number of trucks by around 100,000 per year. Roads [...]

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Special announcement from the Editor

Everybody knows summer is a “slow” period. Thus we have not been writing a lot in the last couple weeks on Transport Expertise, but we did quite a bit of thinking to improve the services we provide, and to choose what we will write about in the future. After six month of successful activity, we [...]

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Metro, bus, tramway, commuter rail and now… Voguéo!

Paris launch a waterways transit service Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë and Jean-Paul Huchon, President of Paris-Ile de France regional Government innaugurated the new waterways transit service Voguéo on Saturday, June 28, 2008. Operated by RATP, this new service will link Maisons-Alfort in the Val-de-Marne Département to Austerlitz train station inside Paris city (for more details, [...]

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STX Shipbuilding will conceive a 22,000 TEUs ship!

Emma Maersk ships are presently the biggest containerships in the world, carrying up to 13,000 TEUs (Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit)… Not for long! The South Korean Group STX Shipbuilding is working on the design of a 22,000 TEUs cargo… The company, which recently took over 39.2% of Aker Yards capital (European shipbuilder), also announced it will [...]

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