On Friday 24 October, CLECAT, the European association of logistics professionals, called on EU policy-makers to maintain their high ambitions and implement the entire green freight package.
Following the European Commission’s announcement in its 2026 work programme to withdraw the proposal to revise the Combined Transport Directive, CLECAT urged it not to do so (see EUROPE 13735/12). They urged the co-legislators to continue working on this dossier in order to “address its shortcomings, enhance the competitiveness of intermodal transport, and thereby strengthen the wider European economy”.
Presented at the end of 2023, this revision is the subject of disagreement within the EU Council (see EUROPE 13539/7), especially as it depends on the revision of the directive on the weights and dimensions of lorries (see EUROPE 13632/23), which is also blocked (see EUROPE 13654/2).
The association believes that this directive on combined transport is “a clear example of such a structural brake on the EU's competitiveness”, because “the current rules are outdated, ambiguous and create barriers between Member States”. (Original version in French by Anne Damiani)