The European freight forwarders association, CLECAT, welcomes the European Commission’s new proposal on a revised combined transport Directive which was finally released yesterday. Reacting to the proposal Ms van der Jagt, Director General of CLECAT said: ‘Achieving Europe’s modal shift ambitions will only be realistic if the right framework conditions are put in place. While we still need to review the proposal in further detail, it looks like the proposal is a good starting point to encourage the use of Combined Transport. This is vital for the shift of long-distance traffic from road to rail, inland waterways and maritime transport. Intermodal freight transport reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and is therefore an important mean to further decarbonise freight transport and to enable its modal optimisation.‘ (....)