The European Commission (EC) has announced that from 2 August, 2021 UK drivers will no longer be required to carry Green Card insurance when travelling to EU countries.

In an attempt to ease the effects of the chronic shortage of HGV drivers – now estimated to be around 100,000 - the UK government has announced a temporary relaxation of drivers’ hours rules.

The French family-owned Mobilitas Group has completed the construction of two new warehouses in Rwanda’s Special Economic Zone of Kigali.

Clockwork Removals & Storage and Edwards Trade Storage have moved their North London hub in Brent Terrace to Standard Road, Park Royal, NW10 6DF.

Walter Lafitte, from Canal Movers in Panama explains how his company has helped Operation Smile.

Ellie Kenyon, Solicitor, Dispute Resolution Team, Backhouse Jones looks at the latest developments regarding business interruption claims following the COVID pandemic.

A new trade storage and office rental facility for the removals industry with easy access to the M1 and M25 has opened in Hertfordshire.

The Worldwide ERC, Canadian Employee Relocation Council and the European Relocation Association have joined forces under the name WECAN to issue a joint declaration to governments and business leaders.

The UK has announced its First Homes scheme to help people buy their first homes. The programme is in addition to other initiatives such as Help to Buy, shared ownership and 95% mortgages.

On 19 May, 2021, EUROMOVERS held the third of its virtual conferences to help keep members up to date of developments within the organisation and acknowledge its high achievers.

The BGRS 2021 Talent Mobility Trends Survey: Reinventing Mobility Beyond 2020, examines how mobility practitioners adapt to the change and chart the future of workforce mobility in their organisations.

On 25 May, Atlas® Van Lines, Inc., published its 54th annual Corporate Relocation Survey, looking at the pandemic’s impact on the world of relocation and workforce mobility.

A new survey conducted by InterNations, a Munich-based expat network, has ranked Taiwan, Mexico and Costa Rica as the top three places to live and work in 2021.

The American Trucking Associations’ Moving & Storage Conference has recently praised the introduction of the Moving Americans Privacy Protection Act by Senators Gary Peters (D-Michigan) and Steve Daines (R-Montana).

ACEA (the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association) has released a new interactive map that shows the number and location of hydrogen refuelling stations that will be required to meet the needs of fuel cell HGVs in the future. It says that binding targets should be set for each member state.

Do you ever have one of those days when, from the moment you wake up, you just know it’s going to be a bad one when nobody is going to like you and everything is going to go wrong?

Iain Adams and Tim Daniells, Managing Director and Client Account Director for Gosselin in the UK, look at the effect of the changes for the household goods moving industry.

The European Commission’s Spring 2021 Economic Forecast projects that the EU economy will expand by 4.2% in 2021 and by 4.4% in 2022. The euro area economy is forecast to grow by 4.3% this year and 4.4% next year.

Africa Mobility Services (AMS), is expanding its operations in The Republic of the Congo with the opening of two new facilities in Pointe Noir and the country’s capital Brazzaville.

The Harmony Relocation Network has recently updated its membership criteria. According to Paul Bernardt, Harmony’s managing director, the changes have been implemented to bring the rules more into line with the needs of the current market.