Customs intermediaries and traders completing customs declarations can apply for grants to support training and IT under a £8 million government scheme designed to increase capacity in the sector ahead of Brexit in March 2019.
All German Mercedes-Benz Cars plants are to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy by 2022 from renewable energy Statkraft provider.
Dachser has won a German government award for an urban delivery project in Stuttgart, which, the company says, reduces CO2 emissions per shipment by 24 per cent, particulates emissions by 32 per cent, and nitrogen oxide emissions by 26 per cent.
Milton Keynes based mobility start-up Tomorrow’s Journey has received a Highly Commended placement in the Fleet Entrepreneur category at the Fleet Heroes Awards organised by the Energy Savings Trust and sponsored by MINI.
Daimler has set out plans to buy €20 billion of battery cells saying: “We are systematically pushing forward with the transformation into the electric future of our company.”
