23-04-2021 ) Under current EU legislation on energy taxation, member states can and do exempt airlines from paying tax on the fuel they burn for international flights. This means that despite the escalating climate crisis, airlines emit damaging greenhouse gas emissions for free. [EPA-EFE/CJ GUNTHER]
The European Commission welcomes the agreement reached by the European Parliament and the Council on the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) proposal, worth …
2021, the European Year of Rail Freight too…
Mid-December 2020, during its plenary session, the European Parliament sent a strong signal[1] through the adoption of 2021 as the European Year of Rail. The European Year of Rail will support the European Commission’s “Climate Law” which proposes setting a binding target of reaching net-zero carbon by 2050.
FEPORT, as many other sister organizations who believe in the capacity of rail to contribute to Europe’s economic and climate related goals, welcomes this decision and hopes that the European Year of Rail will be a real occasion to finally deliver a legal framework that also meets the needs of all rail supporters. Many of them do indeed consider that rail freight must improve its modal share to significantly reduce freight transport emissions. Yet, the realization of the global objective requires that other freight transport emissions are addressed as well.
EU Smart And Sustainable Mobility Strategysea
SEA Europe welcomes the European Commission’s Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy, published on 9 December. This new strategycovers all modes of transport, including waterborne transport. But, for the first time, it also covers relevant points from the perspective of Europe’s shipyards and maritime equipment industry (known as “maritime technology sector”).
The mobility strategy focuses on policies to make waterborne transport a sustainableand smart mode of transport. These policies are in line with the ambitions from the European Green Deal and take into account the opportunities offered by a digitalization, automation and autonomy in shipping, inland navigation, ports and the logistics’ chain.
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FEPORT commends the EU Commission’s Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy but underlines the need to safeguard the competitiveness of EU port ecosystems through an enabling framework
FEPORT commends the EU Commission’s efforts to propose an ambitious Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy to achieve the objectives of the Green Deal. The newly adopted Strategy is in many ways the adequate response to the challenges that society and businesses are facing.