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Market Liberalisation of Railway Freight Transport in Croatia

Railway freight transport was liberalised on 1st July 2013 with Croatia's entry into the European Union. In the Croatian Railway Act was predicted that from the date of Croatia's accession to the European Union licenses issued to railway undertakings by other member states competent authorities would be accepted. First new railway freight undertakings were founded in the same year. New rail freight undertakings today cover half of the freight market. Today on the railway freight market are present ten companies. Effects on the liberalisation of the railway market services are being researched. Data for impact analyses of railway freight transport liberalisation was used from the following sources: (1) Eurostat, (2) Infrastructure Manager, (3) Regulatory Bodies, (4) Independent Regulators' Group – Rail and (5) Croatian Bureau of Statistics. The analysis will show the actual situation and the impact of rail freight transport liberalisation through railway infrastructure usage according to (1) train kilometres, (2) number of railway undertakings, and (3) transported goods. The research results show the effect of liberalisation in the rail freight market in a relatively small market such as Croatian.

railway freight transport ; liberalisation ; regulation ; railway undertakings

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