It is essential to transfer short - haul air freight transport to the railways.

It will be a long haul, but let us hope that our efforts will be rewarded.

We must also ask whether all this transportation really has to take place.

Even today, there are scandalous cases of abuse, both in legal and illegal transportation.

The collection, sorting, transportation and delivery of mail will take on an entirely new dimension.

It can also support the amendments on transportation in inhuman conditions as an aggravated circumstance.

The export subsidies make the very worst transportation profitable.

Road transport always seemed to cause far more pollution than rail transport.

Some people made the point that carcass transport should replace live animal transport.

This makes international transport both more expensive and more complicated than domestic transport.

That takes the burden off overland transport by adding another link to the chain of intermodal transport.

The same conditions must apply to passenger transport as apply to freight transport.

The single market liberalised the carriage of goods by road.

No one must feel as if they are in a carriage being towed along by a kind of runaway train.

Short sea shipping requires destinations.

Normal shipping operations account for double this amount.

Several bottlenecks hamper the development of short sea shipping.

First of all, shipping must be monitored more closely.

Short sea shipping is also eminently suited to specialist transport.

We have a massive problem with north - south transit.

16664 Slovakia is the transit country for many criminal activities.

I myself have been involved in the committee of inquiry on transit traffic.

Alpine transit must be looked at and understood as an overall problem.

This is the only way to prevent a large number of regions from becoming purely transit areas.