Infrastructure and Logistics
As export world champion, Germany is more dependent on efficient transport routes than most countries. They are essential to guaranteeing the prosperity of our citizens and the efficiency of our enterprises. Germany is living on borrowed time: investments in maintaining and constructing transport routes have been stagnating well below the level required for several years now.
The government’s primary task is to maintain the infrastructure that has been built over decades and expand it where necessary. Experts are calling for a steady stream of investment and stable funding. In the long term, increasing investments in transport by 10 percent would increase the real gross national product by at least one percent. A restricted credit authorisation for the Transport Infrastructure Financing Company (VIFG) could mobilise additional public-private investment projects so that investments could be implemented efficiently, quickly and in line with demand. Intermodal connectivity must be further improved to make the logistics system more efficient.
The BDI advocates a focus on optimising the interfaces between the various carriers. This would leverage the strengths of each mode, to the benefit of all users.
