{"id":156488,"date":"2024-12-10T18:25:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T08:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=58430"},"modified":"2024-12-10T18:25:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T08:25:59","slug":"spain-publishes-final-call-for-rail-freight-eco-incentives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=156488","title":{"rendered":"Spain publishes final call for rail freight eco-incentives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Spanish ministry of transport activated the third (and last) call for rail freight eco-incentives worth 23.5 million euros. \u201cRailway operators will be able to apply for aid from 1 February to 31 March 2025\u201d, the ministry pointed out.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-58430\"><\/span>The first tranche entailed 26.1 million euros, which was divided among eight companies: Renfe Mercanc\u00edas, Captrain Espa\u00f1a, Medway, Transfesa Logistics, Low Cost Rail, CSP Logiten, Go Transport Servicios and CEFSA. The amounts were distributed based on the volumes transported by these companies between April and December 2022.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"readmore\">\n<div class=\"readmore-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/policy\/2023\/12\/12\/spain-unlocks-26-million-euros-in-rail-freight-eco-incentives\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Renfe-train-128x128.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"readmore-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/policy\/2023\/12\/12\/spain-unlocks-26-million-euros-in-rail-freight-eco-incentives\/\" class=\"readmore-title\">Spain unlocks 26 million euros in rail freight eco-incentives<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The second one, for which 21 million euros were allocated, went to the same operators except for state-owned Renfe Mercancias. The company is in fact struggling to increase (or maintain) its volumes, which made it ineligible for the second round of eco-incentives as they were based on volumes moved throughout 2023.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"readmore\">\n<div class=\"readmore-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/business\/2024\/10\/15\/spain-unlocks-over-21-million-euros-in-eco-incentives-for-private-operators\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Continental-Rail-train-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"readmore-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/business\/2024\/10\/15\/spain-unlocks-over-21-million-euros-in-eco-incentives-for-private-operators\/\" class=\"readmore-title\">Spain&#8217;s eco-incentives all go to private operators<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h2>Taking DANA into account<\/h2>\n<p>This final call will \u201csubsidise traffic carried out from 1 January to 31 December 2024\u201d, the ministry stated. One of the factors taken into account while calculating these subsidies will be the impact of the extreme weather conditions, known as DANA, that hit Spain a couple of months ago. \u201cFor this reason, the parameters for calculating the eco-incentive have been made more flexible, allowing the beneficiary to choose the period of the year based on which the increase with respect to previous years is calculated\u201d, the ministry specified.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the volume increases caused by the two previous calls for eco-incentives will also be excluded from the calculation. Finally, \u201ca compensation mechanism will be applied to adjust the total traffic in 2024 to a scenario without incidents, taking as a reference the traffic of 2019\u201d, according to the ministry. It was not specified how this mechanism will work in practice nor the amounts which will be allocated for it.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"readmore\">\n<div class=\"readmore-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/infrastructure\/2024\/11\/07\/no-reopening-of-valencia-madrid-railway-highway-until-december\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Rail-repair-in-Valencia-128x128.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"readmore-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/infrastructure\/2024\/11\/07\/no-reopening-of-valencia-madrid-railway-highway-until-december\/\" class=\"readmore-title\">No reopening of Valencia-Madrid railway highway until December<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<h2>Eco-incentives instead of higher road tolls<\/h2>\n<p>This rail freight eco-incentive measure was introduced at the end of 2023 by the Spanish former ministry of transport Raquel S\u00e1nchez. It was the result of negotiations with the European Commission to unlock funds for Spain\u2019s Recovery and Resilience Facility. The Commission initially wanted Spain to implement road freight tolls to boost the modal shift to rail. However, the Spanish government categorically refused, introducing these eco-incentives for rail freight operators instead.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"readmore\">\n<div class=\"readmore-item\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/policy\/2023\/10\/04\/ec-accepted-spains-request-to-avoid-road-tolls-to-promote-rail-freight\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Rail-at-the-port-of-Barcelona-128x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"readmore-thumbnail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"readmore-info\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/policy\/2023\/10\/04\/ec-accepted-spains-request-to-avoid-road-tolls-to-promote-rail-freight\/\" class=\"readmore-title\">EC accepted Spain&#8217;s request to not use road tolls to boost rail freight<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish ministry of transport activated the third (and last) call for rail freight eco-incentives worth 23.5 million euros. \u201cRailway operators will be able to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14710,1331,78,47,1024],"tags":[12634],"class_list":["post-156488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eco-incentives","category-mitma","category-rail-freight","category-rail-news","category-spain","tag-railfreight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156537,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156488\/revisions\/156537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}