London International Shipping Week 2025’s Post

🚛 Latest ZEFES Update Presented at IRU’s CLTM 🚛 On Wednesday, Ted Zotos from IRU presented the latest updates on the ZEFES project at the IRU Goods Transport Liaison Committee (CLTM) meeting in Brussels. IRU members, representing national transport associations and companies, gathered to discuss the progress of this key initiative. The session provided valuable insights into the advancements of the project, emphasizing the importance of the ongoing revision of the W&D Directive. This revision is crucial for ensuring efficient road transport operations, allowing goods to continue moving seamlessly across Europe. 📦 🌍 #HorizonEurope #CINEA #transport #ZEFES #IRU #logistics #sustainability #innovation

🚨 The EU Court of Justice today ANNULLED the EU Commission's approval of State aid for the German charter airline Condor, at request of Ryanair 🚨   🔨Key point of the judgement: The EU Commission should have had doubts about the compatibility of that State aid with EU law. Therefore, "the Commission should not have approved the restructuring aid at issue without initiating a formal investigation procedure." 🔨   ❓What was the case about❓ ⚖️ Without initiating a formal investigation procedure, the Commission approved in 2021 restructuring aid of €321 million, which Germany wanted to grant to Condor ⚖️  Ryanair - Europe's Favourite Airline wanted the Court to annul the approval of restructuring aid for the ailing airline Condor Flugdienst GmbH … ⚖️ … and shot a broadside of ten pleas in law against the @EUCommission 's approval decision ⚖️ Case T-28/22 followed a series of challenges that Ryanair has brought against #StateAid for competing airlines   📢 ECJ Today always alerts you with a concise summary when the verdict is out. Accurate, easy to understand and in English language 📢   🔔 Sign-up to stay informed: https://lyfx.ai/ecj-today/ 🔔   #StateAid #A4E #AirlinesforEurope #CJEU #EUlaw #LegalInsight #EuropeanUnion #ECJToday #CompetitionLaw #AirTraffic Condor Flugdienst GmbH Ryanair - Europe's Favourite Airline  

Funded freight and customs training right here with British International Freight Association - BIFA - more regions to be added soon as well.

Did you miss our recent breakfast networking event? We delved into the urgent need for the assessment and remediation of RAAC across the public sector. With a focus on collaboration and innovation, we shared insights on overcoming the challenges posed by RAAC. Read our key takeaways here ➡ https://lnkd.in/dw5hUuNB #RAAC I #structuralengineering I #DeliverBetterTogether Patricia Ward Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz Simon Robb

Finally, the mystery surrounding the alliances for 2025 has been unveiled. THE is set to rebrand to Premier Alliance, with MSC joining as a partner rather than a member. This shift raises intrigue on how this collaboration will evolve, especially considering MSC's historical usage of Felixstowe and Liverpool as its UK port of calls, contrasted by THE's utilisation of Southampton and London Gateway. MSC's involvement may revolve around the non-UK NCMP. #Alliances2025 #PremierAlliance #ShippingIndustry

that definitely reads like a very busy schedule, Christina. but knowing you & your high-energy personality, you will rock it for sure 😉 looking forward to be part in two of your IMEX engagements, the ICCA #futureleaderscouncil on sunday and your IMEX session on thursday 👍 #beSMART #thinkFORWARD #embracetheFUTURE #FutureMakers #sharingtheideaofexcellence

It was great to get out of the office for the afternoon, catch up with lots of familiar faces and meet new and interesting people at the Large Format Retail Association (LFRA) forum last Thursday. My two main highlights were: - the discussion with Mirja Viinanen, CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer from IKEA about the different sales formats Ikea has been investing in as well as its market leading sustainability initiatives; and - Craig Woolford's retail market presentation where he conveyed that: 💡 Retail Spending Trends: From 2019 to 2024, retail spending saw above-trend growth, with a significant recalibration in FY24 due to higher interest rates and living costs. Despite a 4% decline in FY24, the average growth over five years was just over 5%. 💡 Consumer Behavior: Households are expected to have more disposable income in the next 12-24 months due to easing interest rates and upcoming tax cuts. However, consumers are maintaining a budget-conscious mindset, leading to careful spending. 💡 Retailer Performance: Profit margins for most retailers have improved since FY19, with some exceptions in discount department stores. Store growth is slowing, and retailers are focusing on optimizing existing floor space. 💡 Future Outlook: The retail sector is expected to see a soft recovery, with household goods likely to benefit the most. Retailers are adapting to changing consumer behaviors and economic conditions to maintain profitability. 💡 Retail Floorspace Supply: Retail floorspace supply growth will be slow for the next five years, pushing up rents. Major incumbent retailers stand to benefit with better like-for-like sales growth. Whilst the delivery of housing is on everyone's minds at the moment, there are still opportunities for retailers and retail asset landowners to re-evaluate and optimize their existing floorspace and sites. Please get in touch if you'd like to discuss how I can help you with your land use and development strategy.

If you want to learn what the #CAMCA community is and what we aspire to achieve, here is a great recap video on the CAMCA Regional Forum 2024 in Bishkek. #RegionalCooperation

You're invited ! Please join us for the inauguration of the renewed Jabbeke SSTPA and a demo of "Green Lane Stamp", a European First   on Tuesday, February 6th,  2024 at 10:00 AM with a workshop afterwards at 1 PM. To register, please contact [email protected] or [email protected]. In a European first, the SSTPA in Jabbeke, Belgium, is equipped with Mac Address Scanners, which allow for an on-the-spot and real-time check of the presence of transmigrants in a truck’s cargo. Within the ‘Green Lanes’ concept highly innovation technology is deployed, which is partly funded by the CEF project of the European Commission. A cargo free of intrusion grants the trucker a “Green Lane Stamp”, which constitutes an additional asset in the subsequent shipping phase. We would like to invite you to a tour of the revamped motorway park lot, including a demo and explanation of the digital cargo check on Tuesday 6 February from 10am to 11.30am. Didier Dubois, CEO of Circle K Belgium, Carl Decaluwé, Governor of West-Flanders, Carina Van Cauter, Governor of East-Flanders, and representatives of the European Commission and the Flemish Agentschap Wegen en Verkeer are happy to give you all the necessary information. Following the inauguration, there will be a workshop hosted by ESPORG about the following topics: I. European Commission Study about Safe and Secure Truck Parking, just launched January 2024   II. Recommendations for the future about sustainability, wellbeing, migrants, connectivity and criminality. We hope you join us !! #safeandsecure #safeandsecuretruckparking #truckparking #cinea #ceffunding #cefprojects #cef #belgium #transport #europe #greenlane #logisticssolutions #logistics

Coming up: I will be presenting "Useful Tech for Premises Liability Claims & Litigation" at both of these PLRB conferences. I'll be talking about means-of-egress and accessible route codes & standards, and how tribometry, 3D LIDAR scanning and photogrammetry can be used for science-backed case analyses. #premisesliability #standardsmatter #sliptesting