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News / DB Cargo's 'financial umbilical cord' set to be cut with EC ban on subsidies

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German state-owned Deutsche Bahn may be forced to end its financial support for its deteriorating freight operation, DB Cargo, as the European Commission is expected to prohibit such subsidies from 1 January.

Citing sources in the German railfreight sector, newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung ...

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