Press Release: Promoting sustainable mobility through advanced transport logistics

The European Commission on 28 June 2006 adopted a Communication entitled 'Freight Logistics in Europe - key to sustainable mobility'. The communication highlighted the need for an overall approach to the improvement of transport logistics and rehearsed the issues in preparation for an action plan in spring 2007 to promote such logistics. Transport logistics makes it possible to optimise flows of goods. Logistics is thus an essential tool for meeting the challenges of growing mobility and competitiveness. It is also a means of reducing the adverse effects of mobility, such as pollution, congestion and energy dependence.