Lack of liberalisation will cost new entrants millions

“The revised network usage conditions of Italian infrastructure manager RFI [Rete Ferroviaria Italiana] will require rescue locomotives and wagons, double insurance cover, higher shunting fees [and more], entailing additional investments by the rail freight industry,” the ERFA Board said in a statement this week.

The Board added that these costs would further reduce the competitiveness

of rail freight because of what it calls “the re-monopolisation process” .