NEE: no tolls for railfreight during the corona crisis
The network of competing rail transport companies calls upon the German federal government to suspend tolls for railfreight trains during the corona crisis. "For reasons of price, transports are already being shifted back from the railways to the roads," the Netzwerk Europäischer Eisenbahnen (network of European railways, NEE) says.
The network adds that the funding of track prices in railfreight (TraFöG) launched in 2018 has already created a well-functioning mechanism between the federation, DB's network and the railfreight companies that could respond very quickly and without undue paperwork to these exceptional circumstances. The federal government would only have to increase the funding rate from its current level of 47% to 100%. (ben)