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Lineas will be the first to introduce a surcharge fuel in the European rail sector
It is currently expected to be between 3.5% and 8.1% per cent of the shipping fee
March 21, 2022
The next first April Lineas, Europe's leading private rail operator, will introduce an overprice to cover the rise in energy costs. It is the first surcharge adopted by a leading European railway company to cope with the growth of energy expenditure. In announcing the adoption of the markup, Lineas said that other rail operators would introduce similar overlapping analogues.
Lineas highlighted that energy prices, as a result of the war in Ukraine and concerns over a possible shortage of supplies, are slapped at the stars and EEX, the main energy market in Europe, the spot price for Megawattora has more than tripled compared to the average price of 2021. Even the diesel, which railway companies use where electric locomotives cannot operate, has become considerably more expensive, " said Lineas. The Belgian company specified that this price increase can no longer be absorbed by Lineas which is forced to transfer the energy costs on its customers.
"Every one of us," said Lars Redeligx, the commercial director of Lars Redeligx, when we lead the way for a gas station. Railway companies are also enormously suffering. We cannot continue to be the only means of transport that does not transfer the rising costs of energy. This is definitely true for private companies like us, but even for state competitors the solution cannot be that the taxpayer covers the increase in the energy bill. So Lineas will apply a dynamic energy supplement in order to offer sustainable rail transport solutions. "
Lineas said the overprice would differ between national and international transport to account for differences in how energy is charged to railway companies and said that, based on the current price, it would be charged with the current price. spot of 300 euros for Megawattora, the surcharge will be between 3.5% in the Netherlands and 8.1% in Germany.
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The next first April Lineas, Europe's leading private rail operator, will introduce an overprice to cover the rise in energy costs. It is the first surcharge adopted by a leading European railway company to cope with the growth of energy expenditure. In announcing the adoption of the markup, Lineas said that other rail operators would introduce similar overlapping analogues. 
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