‘Investment in Belgian rail needs to include more than infrastructure’
Infrabel intends to tackle a number of bottlenecks as part of its 10-year plan. Benjamin Brolet / Infrabel
In a month from now, RailTech will hosts its first event in Belgium: RailTech Belgium 2023. Home to several major ports, a key focus of the conference programme in Belgium will be on the rail infrastructure in those ports, Antwerpen in particular. Infrabel’s head of port rail solutions Heidi Hendrix will shed light on the latest developments. Here’s what to expect.
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Shifts come frequently and rapidly.
With technical life, 30 years, or more, urgently railway investments now have to prove redundant, with margin, for added load, etc.
(Other modes, those redundant, upgrade for added load and lower costs – and accordingly demand from clients raises!)
Regrettably, short of redundancy and even worse now not sustaining traffic and speed, current standard is “cementing” and devastatingly paving for all sorts of subsidies – extra upon clients of other modes, etc.