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Only from Sunday evening does the railway assume that there will be “massive effects” on all German railway operations. “It must also be expected to have a significant impact on pan-European freight traffic,” it said. Six out of ten European freight corridors used the German rail network.
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“We have to go on strike for this length of time, because then we simply have more economic effects and can increase the pressure as a result,” said EVG collective bargaining officer Cosima Ingenschay on Thursday in Cologne. In freight traffic in particular, long traffic jams would arise, which would increase the economic pressure.