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To stimulate the modal shift from road to rail, the European Commission seeks to provide impulses for a railway network focusing on freight traffic. The shift will yield considerable socio-economic and ecological benefits.
To stimulate the modal shift from road to rail, the European Commission seeks to provide impulses for a railway network focusing on freight traffic. The shift will yield considerable socio-economic and ecological benefits.
Freight-oriented corridors
For this reason, the European Commission aims to develop a European railway network of freight-oriented railway corridors. Several measures have been developed to ensure a smooth flow of railway freight traffic on these corridors:
- A legal framework for the corridors with EEIG management structure
- Investment programmes to tackle capacity bottlenecks
- Subsidies for further harmonisation of the corridors’ technical characteristics
- Initiatives to improve coordination between the infrastructure managers upon allocation of international train paths.
European subsidies
The European Commission is actively involved in each corridor and grants subsidies. It has allocated an amount of 79 million euros to Corridor C for infrastructure works over the 2008-2013 period: 36,4 million for Infrabel in Belgium, 33 million for RFF in France, and 9.5 million for CFL IM in Luxembourg.
The Commission also subsidises rolling stock for CFL RU in the amount of 8.6 million euros and the EEIG in the amount of 1,1 million euros.
In the framework of the second call for proposals launched in 2009, the European Commission decided on the 24/08/10 to grant a subsidie of 11,62 millon euros : 4,32 million to the EEIG, 4,5 million to SNCB, 2,25 million to SNCF and 0,54 millon to CFL RU.
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