News / Swissterminal heads to court over government subsidies to Gateway Basel Nord

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Swiss container terminal operator Swissterminal has lodged an official complaint against the Swiss government over what it called unfair state aid in the construction of the new Gateway Basel Nord.

The complaint, which was lodged with the Swiss Federal Administrative court last month, alleges that the July decision of Switzerland’s Federal Office of Transport (FOT) to fund 75% of the costs of the first phase of the GBN, amounting to CHF83m ($84.4m), represented a “severe threat to competition in terms of ...