‘Disruptions due to coal transport prioritisation should not be ruled out’
Image: Flickr Rob Dammers
Everything goes according to the plan regarding coal transport by rail, says Deutsche Bahn. The federal government’s prioritisation plans seem to be working with the country’s first major energy production plants receiving regular trains. However, delays or train cancellations due to the priority corridors should not be ruled out, said the federal government’s parliamentary state secretary and logistics commissioner, Oliver Luksic.
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Track capacity, as well as added utilisation of assets, remain Priority – regardless of current energy crisis,
For railways, by nature short of redundancy, resilency – and of robustness, now a decisive upgrading of infrastructure, since long, has been needed…
At any current investment , however standards have to prove optimal, thus to meet with requests clients supply chains , where risks means costs – inflation, etc.
(For majority, now on road trucks is single available alternative.)