Austrian cargo carriers brace themselves against further burdens

High tax burden afflicts domestic transport industry; detour traffic cause EUR 285 million economic consequential costs
 
On the occasion of the presentation of the quarterly figures of the domestic transport industry Alexander Klacska, manager of the Transport and Communications Division of the Austrian Economic Chamber (WKO), called to "end the ever-increasing burden on the transport industry". The entire transport sector – road transport, rail transport as well as shipping and air cargo – was growing globally and Europe-wide, "however, that this development passes by Austria, is a warning sign."
 
Alexander Klacska sees the reasons for the stuttering development in Austria, among other things, in the high tax burden for domestic companies compared to European average, leading to high tolls, registration costs for new vehicles and inflation of bans on truck traffic that lead to costly detour routes.
 
Particularly the subject "driving ban for trucks" requires rethinking, because, as reports Alexander Klacska: "Our carriers can too often not take the shortest route. Detour traffic amounts to 2,000 to 8,000 kilometers per year and truck. This creates economic consequential costs of up to EUR 285 million per year, and additional CO2 emissions of up to 500,000 tonnes per year! "
 
Road transport of domestic companies has declined in the first quarter of 2013 by a total of 6.9 per cent to 58 million tonnes. In rail freight transport, volume declined by 10.4 per cent compared to the same quarter of the previous year. Traffic on the Danube registered an increase of 16.2 per cent, whike air freight decreased by 7 per cent in the first quarter.
 
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