Mobility for businesses took another step forward today in Brussels, with the signing of an agreement between Dexia Bank and Cambio. Cambio is the car-sharing programme which has been operating in the city for a number of years, but in the private domain. “Today marks a major move towards the business community”, explained Brussels Transport minister Brigitte Grouwels, pictured with Luc Van Thielen of Dexia and Frédéric Van Malleghem, Director of Cambio. The minister also explained that her office had subscribed to the Cambio programme, and that it had enabled one car to be removed from the office fleet.

In practical terms, Dexia employees who previously signed up for occasional ‘pool car’ use, can now book one of the Cambio models parked outside Dexia’s three main buildings – and they use the Dexia intranet site ‘Intradexia’ to do this, just as they did before. “We have calculated that the cost is lower”, explained Luc Van Thielen, “and we had also noted that in July and August, our pool cars were hardly used at all”.