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Airbus first-quarter aircraft deliveries fell 16 per cent, the European planemaker reported on Tuesday, as a persistent shortage of Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan engines and a fuselage panel quality issue continued to choke its production system, even as the order book swelled to a record 9,037 commercial jets. The Toulouse-based group handed over 114 aircraft in the three months to March, down from 136 a year earlier, dragging revenues down 7 per cent to €12.7bn and compre

Belgian gas shipping group Exmar is on the cusp of taking delivery of the world's first ocean-going ammonia dual-fuel vessels, a milestone that places European operators at the vanguard of maritime decarbonisation just as the EU's emissions trading regime reaches full force. The 46,000 cubic metre mid-size gas carriers Antwerpen and Arlon, named after the Belgian cities and built by HD Hyundai Heavy Industries at its Ulsan yard in South Korea, are scheduled for handover in la

Ryanair will close its base at Berlin Brandenburg Airport on 24 October, the fourth such withdrawal by Europe's largest low-cost carrier in Germany since 2019, as escalating taxes and airport charges drive capacity towards lower-cost EU member states. The Irish airline confirmed last week that all seven Boeing 737s currently stationed in the German capital will be redeployed to bases in Sweden, Italy, Albania and Slovakia, countries that have recently abolished or reduced avi

Brussels, 28 April. The EU has tightened its sanctions regime against Russia's so-called shadow fleet to a record 632 vessels but stopped short of a long-anticipated ban on maritime services for Russian crude, after pushback from member states with significant shipping economies including Greece and Malta. The 20th sanctions package, formally adopted by the Council of the EU on 23 April, designates 46 additional tankers tied to the shadow fleet and introduces mandatory due di

Beijing, 28 April. Auto China 2026 opens to the public on Tuesday with the centre of gravity in the global automotive industry shifting decisively away from Europe, as Chinese manufacturers extend their challenge from mass-market electric vehicles into the premium and sports car segments long considered defensible ground for European groups. The biennial Beijing show, which alternates annually with Shanghai, has become the largest motor exhibition in the world, spanning a rec

Paris, 28 April. Alstom's new chief executive Martin Sion is preparing the French rolling stock manufacturer for what he has described as a deeper operational reset, after a sharp market reaction wiped close to a third off the company's value earlier this month. Shares in the Paris-listed group were trading around €16.30 on Monday, little changed since the 28 per cent slide on 17 April that followed the release of preliminary results for the 2025/26 financial year. The stock

Lufthansa Group is cutting roughly 20,000 short-haul flights from its summer schedule through October, a capacity adjustment that lays bare the scale of the jet fuel shock now moving through European aviation. The German group, which also owns SWISS, Austrian, Brussels Airlines and ITA, said on 21 April it would scrap less profitable routes out of Frankfurt and Munich, saving around 40,000 tonnes of fuel. Capacity at Zurich, Vienna and Brussels will be expanded on surviving r

European shipowners enter a pivotal week for global climate policy on Monday, when the International Maritime Organization convenes MEPC 84 in London to reopen stalled talks on the Net-Zero Framework. A coalition representing roughly half the world's merchant fleet, including leading European shipowner associations, the three largest open registries and major classification societies, has issued a joint statement urging delegates to build consensus on a binding carbon pricing

Workers at Stellantis's Poissy plant outside Paris walked out on Thursday in the first open confrontation since the carmaker confirmed it will halt vehicle assembly at the site by the end of 2028, a decision that turns the last passenger-car factory in the Île-de-France region into a parts and recycling hub. The CGT, SUD and UNSA unions called the 23 April stoppage and rally after Stellantis informed works councils on 16 April that production of the DS 3 and Opel Mokka would

Germany has moved to salvage its lagging deployment of the European Train Control System, launching a dedicated coordination office as the bloc's largest rail market concedes it has fallen behind on digital signalling commitments. Transport Minister Patrick Schnieder announced the ERTMS Coordination Office on 17 April, with the body taking effect immediately under public-sector consultancy PD Berater der öffentlichen Hand. The unit will act as a single point of contact for th

European carriers are pulling flights from summer schedules and scrambling for alternative jet fuel supplies as the Strait of Hormuz paralysis drags into its second month, with spot prices for Jet A-1 at major European hubs trading well above pre-crisis levels and exposing the continent's lingering dependence on Middle Eastern crude. KLM this week confirmed the cancellation of 160 services, becoming the largest European flag carrier to formalise schedule cuts since the confli

Europe's largest container lines are preparing for an extended detour around the Cape of Good Hope, after fresh incidents in the Strait of Hormuz undermined declarations from Washington and Tehran that the waterway is open to commercial traffic. AP Moller-Maersk, Hapag-Lloyd and CMA CGM, which together move the bulk of Asia-Europe container trade, have maintained the Trans-Suez suspensions first imposed after US and Israeli strikes on Iran in late February. Xeneta data shows