Brussels, 8 January 2026: ESPORG welcomes the EC Military Mobility Package and the EP vote on a “Military Schengen”, whilst at the same time stressing the need to support safe and secure truck parkings to meet future demand and costs.
ESPORG, the European Organisation for Safe and Secure Truck Parking Areas, supports the EC proposal for a Military Mobility Package, adopted in November 2025, and the EP’s vote (17 December) on an own-initiative resolution on Military Mobility, both placing the emphasis on the need to facilitate procedures but also to speed up upgrading the 500 infrastructure “hotspots”, among which safe and secure truck parking areas selected for dual-use.
Of particular importance is paragraph 45 of the EP resolution, which “recalls that all strategic points of road transport, such as parking facilities, refuelling stations and car-wash stations, should be urgently upgraded to accommodate large numbers of military transport units and personnel in times of emergency”, whilst calling for “investments in key road infrastructures along the four priority military mobility corridors to be among the priorities to facilitate military mobility in the most effective way possible.”
Dirk Penasse, ESPORG’s General Manager, said: “It is of utmost importance that the role and place of safe and secure parking areas is properly understood and their integration in the future military mobility planning and funding is unquestionably ensured. A structured cooperation must be established between the public authorities, military and civil road transport and infrastructure and parking operators, with the objective to create a trusted framework for the exchange of know-how, experience and support materials, including aligning standards and putting together basic training packages for civil mobility service providers, including safe and secure parkings, on the basic needs and procedures related to military mobility.”
In its earlier contribution to the EC consultation on military mobility, ESPORG placed the emphasis on the following issues:
- The obvious negative cost-benefit ratio between private investment and military mobility obligations must be addressed and public funds must be made available for private entrepreneurs, including for dual-use safe and secure parkings, to fully fill in the negative cost-benefit gap.
- The need to create dedicated support materials for raising awareness and training of dual-use parking operators, possibly as part of the standard parking managers’ training package.
- The need to align standards applicable to military and civil mobility, whilst providing operators, including dual-use safe and secure parking operators, with the resources and time to adapt.
“For ESPORG, infrastructure providers and in particular dual-use safe and secure truck parkings must be supported, including financially by dedicated funds, to align their standards for a potential military mobility dual-use, whilst offering them sufficient time to make sure they are ready on time, without making any financial loss”, concluded Mr Penasse.
🔗 Learn more about the ESPORG’s views on military mobility:
👉 https://esporg.eu/2025/08/29/military-mobility-a-subject-to-be-taken-increasingly-seriously-by-all/
🔗 Contact ESPORG to get more:
👉 info@esporg.eu
