“90 to 95% of what works for military mobility works for rail freight.” Alberto Mazzola, Executive Director of CER, set the tone at RailTech Europe conference day 2. His message was clear: Europe’s railways must evolve into a dual-use network, ready for a crisis and optimised for regular operations at the same time. Because despite rail being the most important transport mode for moving military equipment, currently it would take 45 days to take a military convoy from France to Romania by rail, and that would “lose us the war”, says Mazzola.
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