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Sep 22 2017

IRU strengthens strategic partnership with International Transport Foru

IRU met with new Secretary General of the International Transport Forum (ITF), Young Tae Kim, to reinforce co-operation on the 2018 ITF annual summit on Road Safety and Security, and to reinforce collaboration on leading issues, including decarbonisation, and the ECMT Multilateral Permit System.

 

Committed to maintaining a level playing field for the industry, IRU is placing reform of the ECMT permit system high on the agenda. Introduced in 1974, the system has successfully harmonised rules and ensured fair competition between ITF member countries.

 

The reform should ensure the efficient use and balanced distribution of the quota of ECMT permits by ITF member states to international fleet operators in all member countries concerned, while guaranteeing the ECMT system’s proper functioning, without market distortion. Read more

 

 

Source: IRU