UIRR Newsletter Q3.2018 08/11/18

CONTENTS

1^st anniversary of the Rastatt disaster... 2

German Rail Freight Master Plan.......... 2

Dutch track access charge hiked.......... 2

Swedish track access charges review.... 2

German railway union laments locomotive driver shortage.............................................. 2

NGO recommends rail freight promotion measures............................................. 2

Commission study analyses border crossing bottlenecks.......................................... 2

Germany dishes out biased state-aid for training 3

European Commission 2019 work plan. 3

EU legislators: new CO₂ emission standards for HGVs.................................................... 3

Mental shift must precede modal shit... 3

Polish railways decide major intermodal rolling stock programme................................. 3

North America: continuous intermodal growth 3

Europe/Asia: major intermodal growth. 3

1^st train Japan-Russia via Trans-Siberian railway 3

New trimodal terminal in Lauterbourg. 3

Personnel News................................... 4

Members’ News .................................. 4

Key Dates & Events ............................. 4