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EU Truck Registrations Climb 7.5% Through the First Nine Months of 2026, With Poland Growing Fastest Among Major Markets
The European Union registered 245,079 new trucks in the first nine months of 2026, a 7.5-percent gain that the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association describes as a recovery from a low base — with heavy trucks up 8.5%, Poland up 20.5% and Spain up 13.2%, while electrically-chargeable trucks grew 49.8% yet still hold just 5.3% of a market where diesel accounts for 91.7% of sales. Demand is coming back, unevenly, and Central and Eastern Europe is growing fastest.
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Bulgaria Lays Out 25 Cross-Border Projects Worth EUR 22.8 Billion, Putting New Danube Bridges at the Centre of Its North-South Corridor
Bulgaria's Transport and Communications Minister Georgi Peev used the seventh Sofia Economic Forum on 26 October to position the country as the overland gateway between Central Europe, the Western Balkans and the Black Sea — and to put a number on it: 25 priority cross-border projects worth around EUR 22.8 billion under the Black Sea–Aegean corridor action plan signed in Brussels in September. For contractors and fleet operators, that is a decade-scale pipeline of road, bridge and port works running through three countries.
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Moldova Doubles Truck Capacity at Its Danube Gateway, Where 70–80% of Farm Exports Queue for One Border Post
Moldova has doubled lorry parking capacity at the Giurgiulești border area, expanding the site from 0.65 to about 1.28 hectares and from 30 to 60 trucks, in a project worth roughly 18 million lei that the European Union and the World Bank supported. The upgrade — concrete paving, upgraded water and sewage, driver sanitary facilities, an electronic weighbridge, lighting, backup power, access barriers and video surveillance — was announced by the Customs Service on 17 October 2026. It arrives in the middle of an autumn in which, according to the grain exporters' association Agrocereale, between 150 and 300 lorries have been queueing outside the same crossing every day.
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Romania Gives Electric Trucks a 75% Toll Discount as Distance-Based Charging Replaces the Vignette
From 8 October 2026, a goods vehicle powered solely by electricity pays a quarter of Romania's per-kilometre road toll. Order no. 959/2026, published in Monitorul Oficial no. 847 and in force the day it appeared, adds a dedicated electric column to the TollRo tariff table — the charge that goods vehicles above 3.5 tonnes have paid per kilometre on Romanian motorways, expressways and national roads since 1 October 2026 — cutting the rate for a 12-tonne-plus electric truck from 0.48 to 0.12 lei per motorway kilometre, while Euro V-IV diesels carry a 15 per cent and Euro III-or-older diesels a 30 per cent surcharge over Euro VI.
Read the briefing →EU Sets Negotiating Position on 2026 ADR/ADN Dangerous Goods Transport Amendments
On 28 September 2026 the Council of the European Union adopted Decision (EU) 2026/2233, fixing the EU position on the latest amendments to the ADR (road) and ADN (inland waterways) agreements for dangerous goods transport. The amendments, notified to contracting parties in mid-2026, will feed into Directive 2008/68/EC and shape future technical and documentation requirements for dangerous goods vehicles.
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EU Unifies Dangerous Goods Road Checks Under Directive (EU) 2025/1801
A single ADR inspection checklist and a three-tier violation grading take full effect across EU member states on 24 June 2026, changing how roadside checks of dangerous goods vehicles are carried out and how faults are penalised.
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Georgia Opens GEL 144.8m Road Rehabilitation Tenders
Georgia's Roads Department announced four electronic tenders on 15 September 2026 for the rehabilitation of 65.1 kilometres of domestic-importance roads, with a combined estimated value of GEL 144,845,976.
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