UK TRANSPORT AND BREXIT NEWS & VIEWS NO. 169

Mark’s EU Week for Transport  Mark speaking at the Global LNG Bunkering Summit in Amsterdam WattsUp!  The word revolution is overused, especially in transport, but what’s happening now in terms of moving away from fossil fuel powered transport, on both sides of the channel and across the globe, is nothing short of a revolution, on par with the invention of the internal combustion engine. This transport revolution is already generating huge challenges, but also huge opportunities, especially for those that adapt…

Mark’s EU Week for Transport  Mark speaking at the Global LNG Bunkering Summit in Amsterdam WattsUp!  Transport decarbonisation remains one of our biggest challenges. Despite or maybe because of international shocks and crises, such as the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, that goals remains as illusive as ever. Let’s remind ourselves that transport is the only sector that has not reduced its greenhouse gas emissions since 1990. And even with the major announcements by the EU last week (see below) to…

Mark’s EU Week for Transport  Mark speaking at the Global LNG Bunkering Summit in Amsterdam WattsUp!  UKTiE is a member-driven association, operating across all transport modes, that makes the most of its members’ expertise focusing on common interests and priorities. We advocate for a holistic and long-term ethos to policymaking, that ensures an integrated approach to all modes, to guarantee better policy outcomes and better services for consumers through improved mobility, and to ensure that transport-related industry remains competitive on the…

Mark’s EU Week for Transport  Mark speaking at the Global LNG Bunkering Summit in Amsterdam WattsUp! Opposing the Russian invasion of Ukraine, boosting the economic recovery from the pandemic and rolling out the European Green deal continue to dominate everything in Brussels. In contrast to London, where uncertainty continues to prevail, the EU has been busy regulating, windfall taxing, subsidising, innovating and investing. In her recent State of the Union address President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen outlined flagship…

Mark’s EU Week for Transport  Mark speaking at the Global LNG Bunkering Summit in Amsterdam WattsUp!  Zero Carbon Transport: Be the change you want to see in the world. A year ago the UK Government became the first in the world to publish a national ‘Transport Decarbonisation Plan’.As COP President it assumed a clear and firm leadership position ahead of COP 26 in Glasgow, and as the plan states it sought to  bring ‘together governments, cities, industry, businesses, and civil society to deliver shared…

Mark’s EU Week for Transport  Mark speaking at the Global LNG Bunkering Summit in Amsterdam Watts Up!   I’m currently engaging with transport industry stakeholders, visiting places as diverse as Amsterdam and Athens, on a mission to explain what is going on in the UK, Europe and globally in terms of global trends, but also in terms of future transport regulation. I’m shocked by the massive and unprecedented gap that is emerging between regulators and those that are regulated, and the tremendous…

Mark’s EU Week for Transport  Mark speaking at the Global LNG Bunkering Summit in Amsterdam Watts Up!   It was great to have the chance to address the Global LNG Bunkering Summit 2022 in Amsterdam this week, to brief the industry on the latest regulatory proposals from Brussels, set out in the EU’s Fit for 55 Package, on how European and international shipping calling into EU ports will have to decarbonise. I also briefed industry on the EU’s recent REPowerEU proposal, that will…

Mark’s EU Week for Transport  Mark with UK Ambassador to the EU, Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby CMG Watts Up! Transport policy was already undergoing a seismic change in order to become more resilient and sustainable, to learn from the lessons of COVID to protect delicate and complex supply chains and finally, to respond to the climate crisis as the fastest growing source of CO2 emissions. The pace of change has now intensified following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and transport – as the…

Mark’s EU Week for Transport  Mark with UK Ambassador to the EU, Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby CMG It was an honour to co-host an event on behalf of UK Transport in Europe on zero carbon transport with Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby CMG, the UK Ambassador and Head of the UK Mission to the European Union, at the UK Ambassador’s Official Residence in Brussels. It was part of an intensive two-day programme to facilitate meetings between the best of UK transport with representatives of the European…

Mark’s EU Week for Transport  The anguish and horror facing the people of Ukraine are uppermost in our thoughts and in our hearts as the war in Ukraine rages on, the humanitarian situation deteriorates and the impact on neighbouring countries, and indeed the entire world, grows each day. Everything we hold dear, not least the fragile peace in Europe that has held since 1945, albeit with some notable exceptions like the war in former Yugoslavia, is under threat. And we’ve certainly…