Infrabel may close lines if government doesn’t commit money
Infrabel, Belgium’s infrastructure manager, might decide to close some of its rail lines if the Belgian government does not accept the company’s demands for the future of rail freight. The government has launched a plan to boost rail freight in the country but has failed to mention any specific financial investments, which is what the company is asking for. An Infrabel’s spokesperson told RailFreight.com that the possible closure of lines is a “theoretical indication and a theoretical approach when Infrabel has presented the possible consequences of the different options regarding the proposition of the financial plans”.
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Investments, timely, thus adding to capacity, to utilisation of assets , simply quality is needed!
(Other just for quantity, at a no longer optimal infrastructure – are cementing – and devastating…
At supply chains, quality of infrastructure matters, more than ever.)
Predictive, “optimal maintenance”, current mantra, now is big business – and just telling about a needed shift.
(Electrification, yes, but a timely, etc.)
Redundancy, resilency and above all robustness, handsomely is rewarded!