So it's gone through a number of iterations in terms of what its government service has been over the years, but it was just about 25 years in transport, focused on multimodal, and now it's focused on oceans, marine-protected areas, and integrated oceans management.

Promoting more comprehensive multimodal journey planners facilitates the transition to "Mobility as a Service", where a service provider makes accessible to the end-user packages (including all necessary applications and services) under one interface.

facilitate multimodal transport service operations, including the necessary accompanying information flows, and improve cooperation between transport service providers.

(c)facilitate multimodal transport service operations, including the necessary accompanying information flows, and improve cooperation between transport service providers.

Numerous industrial projects have already benefited from its programme: the ‘Kombiverkehr’ project which served to introduce a multimodal train-ferry service between Italy and Sweden, ‘Lokomotiv’, which has linked Germany and Italy by intermodal rail services run by private rail companies, ‘Oy Langh Ship’, which introduced an intermodal service combining maritime, rail and river transport between Finland and Central Europe, etc.

At the same time, they enable users of the liner shipping services offered by consortia to benefit from a number of the major advantages stemming from the improvements in productivity and service (iv) In order to ensure that the requirements of Article 85(3) of the Treaty are met, however, it will be necessary to attach to the block exemption certain specific conditions and obligations so as to guarantee that a fair share of the benefits resulting from the productivity improvements achieved by the consortia are passed on to users and that competition in respect of a substantial part of the trade in question is not eliminated or unduly restricted (v) Details of the arrangements for the block exemption, including the abovementioned conditions ...[+++] and obligations, will be given following further consultations with the parties concerned and Member States (vi) The proposed block exemption also covers consortia which offer multimodal services (combined sea/land transport).