• 13 December 2018

Marine industry expect major changes

The shipbuilding industry is facing significant changes: from 1 January 2020, ships can only use fuels with a maximum sulfur content of 0.5%. The current standard is fuels with an upper sulfur limit of 3.5%. The so-called IMO 2020 Regulation is the first in a series of measures by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) aimed at reducing marine pollution. The use of low-sulfur fuel will be a key transport solution that meets the IMO 2020 target. In the short term, it is a more environmentally friendly solution.

The introduction of this regulation will significantly improve the environmental footprint of industry. Assuming a price difference (0.5 percent LSFO) of about $ 250 per tonne between heavy fuel oil (HSFO) and low sulfur fuel by 2020, shipowners expect additional costs of about $ 1 billion in the first years. .

• 09 November 2018

Increasing tolls for trucks

At the end of October this year, the German parliament hit an increase in tolls for all trucks. The change comes into force on 1 January 2019. According to current assumptions, this could mean income to the state treasury of 2.5 billion euros (approximately 64.7 billion CZK). The new equipment will mainly concern all large and noisy vehicles, which in this case means trucks.

According to the DPA, only electric or gas trucks will be exempt from tolls. For the sake of completeness, it should be added that from July 2017, mandatory tolls were extended to all local roads in Germany. The goal of the July and October measures is quite clear – to obtain additional funding. Based on current models, this will mean 7.2 billion euros, which is about 2.5 billion euros more than now.

• 15 August 2018

Where can you visit us?

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• 04 May 2018

Information on GDPR

Dear clients, we would like to inform you that our company processes any personal data in accordance with Act No. 101/2000 Coll., On the protection of personal data, as amended, (hereinafter the “Act”), and from 25. 05 2018 also in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (“GDPR”).

We assure you that SÜD-LOG Ltd. it does not primarily collect the personal data of its customers, and if it has such data at its disposal, it collects it only for justified purposes and only for a limited period of time. All personal data is protected by the maximum possible level of security and is immediately deleted at the end of its period of use.

• 20 April 2018

Germany will expand toll collection

In Germany, as part of the process of centralizing and expanding toll collection, new rules will apply from 1 July 2018. The number of kilometers of tolled sections for trucks with a total weight of 7.5 tonnes or more will increase by 40,000 kilometers. Carriers will pay tolls on a total of 55,000 kilometers of first-class motorways and state roads.

In addition to the existing toll gates on motorways, new control posts will be installed on all first-class roads for automated toll control. The terminals for manual toll payment will also change. 1100 new generation terminals, the replacement of which has already begun, will be installed at 600 locations. It will now also be possible to book tolls for your route via the mobile application. The on-board units (OBUs) will display the number of axles and the weight of the set instead of the price. The information was published by Eurowag, a major provider of payment solutions for road mobility in Europe.

• 19 March 2018

New rules on posting of employees

Long-distance trucking will not be part of the forthcoming amendment to the EU Posting of Workers Directive. After nine hours of negotiations, which ended today around 01:00, the Bulgarian EU Presidency and representatives of the European Parliament and the European Commission agreed. MEP Martina Dlabajová, who attended the meeting, reminded in the morning that the Czech Republic has long sought to remove transit traffic.

An amendment to the 1996 rules was introduced by the European Commission in early 2016, and since then the matter has been negotiated. The EU executive has sought to ensure fair pay for workers working in another country, including, for example, that they should be remunerated according to the rules of the country in which they operate.

According to Martina Dlabajová, the agreement on the form of the amendment to the directive is provisional. Representatives of the member states will meet again during March. According to the representative of the Bulgarian presidency, the final vote in the European Parliament should take place in the first half of this year.

Due to its carriers, not only the Czech Republic and other countries from the center and east of the Union, but also countries such as Portugal and Spain wanted to remove truck transport and solve this problem by special regulation. Their drivers would also be affected in a difficult way by rules on, for example, the country’s usual salary or other compensation.

Among the changes to the original form of the directive proposed by the Commission is a reduction in the maximum period of posting of a worker, ie the time before employees will have to be subject to the national rules of the country to which they have been posted. The Commission originally proposed 24 months, but last October the member states agreed on 18 months, a shorter period was mainly promoted by France.

The current final compromise also envisages a period of 12 months with a possible extension of another six months, so in practice it corresponds to the 18 months. According to diplomatic information, by night agreement, Member States should have two years after the amendment has been adopted to transpose its rules into national law.

As early as October, the member states of the union also agreed to postpone the application of the rules in international road transport until the special regulation discussed in the so-called road package came into force in this area.