{"id":420399,"date":"2026-05-04T19:05:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=70972"},"modified":"2026-05-04T19:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T09:05:53","slug":"sweden-to-reduce-track-access-charges-for-freight-by-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=420399","title":{"rendered":"Sweden to reduce track access charges for freight by 20%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Swedish Transport Administration Trafikverket will reduce track access charges (TAC) for rail freight transport by 20% starting with the 2028 timetable. This move should provide some relief to the industry after a significant increase in 2025.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-70972\"><\/span>Track access charges are a big portion of the total costs faced by rail freight operators and have a significant impact on the final price paid by the customer. Between 2024 and 2025, TAC in Sweden rose by 40%. As a consequence, the Swedish government decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/policy\/2025\/09\/18\/sweden-puts-a-big-tac-subsidy-on-the-table\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">increase the subsidy fund<\/a> from around 50 to around 80 million euros.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the decision has been made to reduce TAC for freight altogether. This comes after a study commissioned by the government to Trafikverket in June 2024 to review TAC calculation bases. While the ones for freight will decrease, the ones for passengers will be 15% higher. However, they weigh much less on ticket prices, which are still expected to increase by 15%, according to Trafikverket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish Transport Administration Trafikverket will reduce track access charges (TAC) for rail freight transport by 20% starting with the 2028 timetable. This move should\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"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":[72,471,47,1968,8592,20202],"tags":[12634],"class_list":["post-420399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-news","category-rail-news","category-sweden","category-track-acces-charges","category-trafkiverket","tag-railfreight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420399","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=420399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420400,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420399\/revisions\/420400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}