the European railway industry is an economic motor important of the EU



The European railway industry, including is the operating railway activity that the management of railway infrastructures, gives to job 1,06 million people directly and generates 66 billion euros of gross added value per year. It evidences the recent study "The economic footprint of railway in Europe" elaborated from the society of Dutch advising Ecorys and commissioned from the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) that it emphasizes moreover as the field has higher than average levels of productivity.

According to the esteem of the Ecorys, the contribution of the railway field to the Gross Domestic Product one of the European Uniione is advanced to that of the aerial transport or the marine transport: comprised the relative indirect economic effects to the relationships with the suppliers and the effects of the infrastructural investments, the contribution of the railroads to the GDP European is estimated of 142 billion euros, that is 1.1% of the total.

The study rimarca that in terms of productivity the railway field records better performances regarding how much commonly is considered: after many years of reforms and the restructure - the document explains - the productivity of the job of the field is begun to increase and, if in 2003 it were still beneath of the average total of all the economic section, in the 2012 railway field it had visibly exceeded the average.

According to the Ecorys, moreover, the railway market of the EU is also the stepping stone for smash hit European of productive the railway industry: the section of the railway supplies of the EU - specific the study - is largest of the world, with a production that in 2009 has been pairs to 27 billion euros continuation from that of China with 18 billion euros, and is also a field with a high intensity of research & development and this highly mean characterized places of work for Europe.

Commenting the results of the study, the association of the railway societies and the managers of European railway infrastructures has found that in a still fragile economic context, in which the increase and the occupation with justice they are defined as a priority political, the rail shipment has much to offer and that the results of the analysis, with absolutely consolidated performance in the field of the sustainability and environmental safety, demonstrates to the attraction of the railway field for the investments publics: in fact - it has observed the Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies - the railway infrastructure projects generate a series of wide economic benefits more to local and regional level. "To invest in the railway field - it has said Christian Kern, president of the CER and managing director of the railway society Austrian ÖBB - it means to invest in the future. Draft not to choose itself more between an atmosphere cleaned from a part and the increase and the occupation from the other. In fact draft to obtain both: draft to produce to benefits in all the fields".