Poland’s rail freight market does not lack scale. It lacks a stronger link with the road freight flows that already move across the country and between Poland and Western Europe.
Rail freight traffic on Austria’s network reached 96.2 million tonnes in 2025, up 1.8% year on year, according to Statistics Austria. Domestic transport performance increased by 2.6% to 21.5 billion tonne-kilometres.
A joint study by ProRail and the Port of Rotterdam Authority has found that rail freight operators in the Netherlands face higher infrastructure costs than competitors in Belgium and Germany due to differences in national subsidy schemes.