‘The Dutch rail freight sector is going to crumble’, says rail freight association

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RailGood, the main rail freight association in the Netherlands, sent a letter to the country’s State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW), Vivianne Heijnen, with three demands to facilitate the shift from road to rail. RailFreight.com talked to RailGood’s director Hans-Willem Vroon, who said that the current government strategies for rail freight are “ruining the rail freight sector in the Netherlands”.

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‘The Dutch rail freight sector is going to crumble’, says rail freight association | RailFreight.com

‘The Dutch rail freight sector is going to crumble’, says rail freight association

Image: Shutterstock. Make more Aerials

RailGood, the main rail freight association in the Netherlands, sent a letter to the country’s State Secretary for Infrastructure and Water Management (IenW), Vivianne Heijnen, with three demands to facilitate the shift from road to rail. RailFreight.com talked to RailGood’s director Hans-Willem Vroon, who said that the current government strategies for rail freight are “ruining the rail freight sector in the Netherlands”.

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Marco Raimondi is an editor of RailFreight.com, the online magazine for rail freight professionals.

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