Friday, September 11th, 2026
Freight moves by road across Europe not because the track is missing but because the places to load and unload it are. The investment now going in is unglamorous, terminal-shaped and long overdue.
Thousands of rural bridges are being downrated rather than replaced, and a load limit reroutes freight, school buses and fire apparatus onto roads that were never meant to carry them.
Billions went into berths, cranes and channel depth after the congestion of the early decade. The constraint moved twenty miles inland, to the road and rail that carry a container away from the water.