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According to the DP News, the Ministry of Transport on the Ministry of Transport said on August 18 that the country's railway network improvement plan involved in the railway infrastructure project is being placed on the most priority schedule will be implemented as soon as possible.
The report said that this means that multiple projects of the railway network improvement plan will begin construction. These projects include a high-speed rail operation project of 300 kilometers from the project, which will help expand the regional and long-distance railway networks in Hamburg, generally shorten the time required between Germany's largest cities. The German Ministry of Transport said that the total investment in the improvement plan will reach 40 billion euros (about $ 46.8 billion).
Germany's railway infrastructure urgently needs significant improvements and expansion to provide faster services and better scheduling between remote and regional services.
The EU's competitive affairs regulatory agency approved the German government to provide 2.5 billion euro assistance for railway enterprises at the end of month. These assistance will be carried out in the form of freight and long-distance passenger traffic charges required to reduce railway enterprises. The European Commission said that these assistance aimed to help German railway operations have led to the difficult period of the epidemic, strengthen its competitiveness of other transportation methods to help EU environmental and climate change goals. Compared with road traffic, rail transportation methods have fewer pollution of the environment, but also help relieve congestion problems.