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.
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.
In 2024, rail transport performance in the Czech Republic reached 10,517 million passenger-kilometers (p-km), marking a recovery to 96.2% of 2019 levels.