Port chaos in Europe keeps rail freight operations on the edge
Containers at Hamburg port. Source: Port of Hamburg
Hamburg and Bremerhaven ports still face chaos following continuous strikes and infrastructure issues, causing “disastrous consequences” to operators like METRANS. As if that was not enough, Adriatic ports also met immense traffic restrictions, which the Slovenian infrastructure manager fortunately lifted.
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Sad it is, that infrastructure managers have “missed the train”.
At a “pro rail” era, as currently, offensive pays.
By offensive, easier it is to attract, as well qualified staff, as customers.
(Ware owners, clients, handsomely rewards, high quality, low risk service rendered, etc., etc.)
In any case, an upgraded “New Old Railway, a safely sustainable, needed is, where the current costly, “predictive” (the suboptimal…) maintenance (repairing) is reduced to min. the optimal, etc., etc.