2025: Difficult year for rail freight transport

A freight transport on the railway line Lisbon (Portugal) - Badajos (Spain). Credits: Hermann Schmidtendorf

The new year 2025, which is slowly getting underway, will once again be challenging for the rail freight transport industry.In France, the state-owned freight transport company SNCF is being largely privatised.The state-owned DB Cargo in Germany is facing staff layoffs.Problems with the inadequate rail infrastructure are hampering rail transport in several European countries.