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Freight Leaders to study gigaliners
€700M needed
for Iron Rhine
The European Freight & Logis- rived from questionable maths.”
tics Leaders Forum (F&L) has set However, the momentum be-
up a working group (WG) to ex- hind LHVs is growing stronger.
amine the “pros and cons” of al- Dutch transport organisation TLN
At least €700M will be needed toric trace. However, there is
lowing longer, heavier vehicles, has reported that the number of
to reactivate the “Iron Rhine,” now concern that the environ-
specifically 25.25m long 25.25m long ecocombis author-
the historic rail lik between the mental restrictions will result in
“gigaliners” (also known as “eco- ised to travel on Dutch roads has
Port of Antwerp and Germany. a sub-optimal solution.
liners” or “eco-combis”) with rapidly increased to almost 200
This is the median estimate for In particular, although the en-
gvws up to 60t on EU roads. since the allowable gvw was in-
reopening the historical east- tire line will be electrified, the
The European Commission creased from 50t to 60t.
west trace that passes through the tunnel that is planned to take the
(EC) has just published a report it In addition, the number of dis-
Dutch Meinweg national park, line under the Meinweg “quiet
commissioned from Belgium’s tribution centres, terminals and so
then goes via Roermond and zone” is planned to be single-
Leuven University, which essen- on where the ecocombis are au-
enters Germany at Dalheim, be- track only, which will drastically
tially gives the “thumbs up” to thorised to travel has been in-
fore swinging north to reduce the line’s overall capacity
25.5m/60t gvw combinations. creased to 291 and could increase
Monchengladbach/Duisburg. to no more than 72 trains/day.
Hence a revision to Directive 96/
As previously reported, last According to Dutch and
Gigaliner on test in Germany. This picture, supplied by Allianz pro Scheiner/
to 356 in the near future.
53 could finally be on the cards, Citing the Leuven findings,
November a trilateral commit- Belgian rail sources, if the tun-
Freight on Rail, speaks louder than words about problems Gigaliners may cause
although the EC does have some TLN and EVO (the Dutch own-
tee under the auspices of the nel is double-tracked, the over-
reservations. The report concluded that
fundamentally flawed. “It neither
account shippers’ organisation), say
Belgian, Dutch and German all cost of reactivating the line
The F&L’s own report will be everything should be done dur-
calculates the extent to which rail
that there are no longer any co-
transport ministers rejected the will be in the region of €900M.
presented at its next AGM and will ing the current crisis to keep the
freight will be forced back onto
herent arguments to stop the in-
so-called A52 southern loop Dutch as well as Belgian rail
follow the work of the F&L’s WG truck industry alive, because after
the roads nor reflects the rebound
troduction of ecocombis on Eu-
variant on cost grounds, which cargo interests support the dou-
on the “Future of Road transport.” the crisis “co-modality will de-
effects of reducing road freight
ropean roads.
were estimated at almost €1.35B. ble-tracking of the tunnel, ar-
This noted that despite the po- velop quite fast and will require
costs,” said FoR campaigner
As noted, the EC appears to
This left the Iron Rhine is- guing that long-term the extra
litical objectives of modal shift and full transport capacity.”
Philippa Edmunds.
accept this, but it also recognises
sue at stalemate, but then Dutch capacity is needed and provides
the “heavy tax burden over road The Leuven report has already
“The assumptions for safety
that traffic density in Sweden and
Transport Minister Camiel better value for money. In any
transport, modal shift never hap- been widely attacked by oppo-
and environmental improvement
Finland,where 25.25m/60t LHVs
Eurlings finally - and surpris- event, it seems that the line will
pened, simply because the current nents of LHVs. In the UK, for
depend entirely on the prediction
have been used for a long time, is
ingly - conceded that there were not re-open before 2018 at the
supply chains are designed for road example,the Freight on Rail
of a dramatic reduction in vehi-
much lower than in Continental
no grounds for rejecting the his- earliest.
transport.” (FoR) alliance says the report is
cle kilometres, which are de-
Europe.
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