Rail freight transport has undergone a period of strong, very pleasing growth in recent years. This has brought new challenges for railway infrastructure. As part of its work on a new National Transport Plan (2010 – 2019), the National Rail Administration has therefore developed a strategy that describes necessary infrastructure-related and organisational moves in the years to come, making it possible for rail freight transport to continue growing.
In its work to develop the strategy, the National Rail Administration has held discussions with both
railway undertakings and other interested parties.
Implementation of the strategy will be included as part of the transport department’s planning proposals for the National Transport Plan [NTP] in December 2007 and is, obviously, otherwise dependent on the annual budgets. The department’s NTP proposals are sent out for wide consultation, with the parallel transmission of the proposal to Norway’s Ministry of Transport and Communications.