4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (436+ words) Headlam Group’s nationwide delivery operation is now at the centre of a restructuring process after the flooring distributor and its main operating subsidiary, HFD Ltd, entered administration on 8 September. Joint administrators from Interpath Advisory have been appointed, a week after…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1176+ words) Agnieszka Kulikowska - Wielgus The first weeks under the new rules have made one thing clear: the change involves far more than installing another device in a vehicle. The tachograph requirement has changed a core part of the international light-transport business…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (477+ words) The UK Government wants significantly more freight moved by rail over the next 14 years, with the policy explicitly aimed at replacing some road journeys and cutting the amount of freight carried entirely by HGV. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has set…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (697+ words) Shipping could cut its annual fuel bill by around $23 billion by 2030 through a combination of energy-efficiency measures and speed reductions, according to DNV’s latest Maritime Forecast to 2050. The classification society estimates that these measures could reduce the global fleet’s energy…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1443+ words) Hauliers who regularly cross borders within the European Union could face more extensive digital monitoring in the future. The BGL wants border crossings recorded by the smart tachograph to be transmitted automatically to a central European database for analysis. The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (636+ words) Agnieszka Kulikowska - Wielgus Greece is preparing a €4.77bn support package ahead of the launch of ETS2. Of the funding allocated for 2026–2032, €1.46bn is earmarked for road transport. A further €373.7m will help around 15,500 lower-income microbusinesses lease or purchase zero- and low-emission vehicles. The package…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1572+ words) Eurozone manufacturing recorded its strongest improvement in more than four years in August, but the headline recovery concealed a widening divide across Europe. Germany and the Netherlands reported solid growth and stronger export demand, while Italy and Spain returned to…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (652+ words) Transport inefficiencies are increasingly translating into commercial losses for UK businesses, with one in three organisations saying logistics problems have cost them customers or market share, according to new research from GXO. The findings come from a survey of more…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (437+ words) Norway is preparing for a major change to its import customs procedures from 15 September, when new digital reporting requirements under the Digitoll system become mandatory. Customs specialists are warning of possible border delays, with only a minority of road arrivals…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (417+ words) A nearly 50-year-old haulage business has entered administration amid a fresh run of insolvencies across the British road transport sector. Several other operators entered liquidation within days, while two had already faced winding-up petitions from HMRC. A cluster of British…...