Views of the Transport Sector on the revision of the Combined Transport Directive
Ahead of the European Commission High-level Conference on European Multimodal Freight Transport in Sofia on 20th March, UIP, along with 11 road and waterborne associations under the IAM Alliance, co-signed a position paper on the proposed revision of the Combined Transport Directive. For UIP, the new proposal of the CT Directive must pave the way for efficient intermodal and multimodal freight services offering level playing field for all modes of transport and promoting better the mode alternatives to suppliers, users and customers. You will find hereunder some of our proposals which we used to launch the Sector discussions and which we already sharedwith the Bulgarian Presidency and MEPs in Brussels.
We are greatly concerned that the new proposal does not guarantee more and new traffic between road and other modes of transport. Instead, it shows a positive discrimination of combined container transport, and creates additional administrative burden which will create extra costs for the Member States and the transport Sector.