News / North-south European rail freight traffic hits the buffers after Rastatt track closure

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Growing congestion on the north-south central European rail freight corridors this week prompted an emergency meeting between the heads of Deutsche Bahn and Swiss rail operator SBB.

The crisis has built up since the closure of a 20km section of the Rhine Valley Rheintal rail track around Rastatt on August 12.

After a meeting on Monday, DB chief executive Richard Lutz and his counterpart at SBB, Andreas Meyer, claimed the situation – the track not expected to open until October 7 – was not ...