Updated guidance on cabotage operations with more concrete examples

Publicied 02-07-2025

The Danish Road Traffic Authority has updated its guidance on cabotage operations. The guidance outlines the rules for cabotage operations and includes new examples illustrating how the rules should be interpreted and applied in practice.

The new version of the guidance on cabotage operations provides companies and drivers with a better overview of the rules for national freight transport using foreign vehicles in Denmark.

The guidance includes, among other things:

  • new and concrete examples of when transport involving empty containers, empty semi-trailers, and returnable packaging is considered cabotage,
  • updated legal references and linguistic improvements that enhance the usability of the guidance.

You can find the updated guidance below.

Version 3 of the guidance replaces the Danish Road Traffic Authority’s previous Version 2 of the cabotage operations guidance.