But the reduced capacity will mean re-routing passenger trains via a scenic railway that takes up to two hours longer until early 2024. It also completes a freight rail corridor between Rotterdam in the Netherlands and the Mediterranean Italian port of Genoa. Swiss rail investigators are currently trying to establish the cause of the accident in which no one was injured. “The Gotthard Base Tunnel is one of the safest in the world,” SBB CEO Vincent Ducrot told reporters on Wednesday. The teams deployed are doing everything they can to ensure that safe rail traffic through the Gotthard Base tunnel is possible again as quickly as possible.”

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Persons: “, Vincent Ducrot Organizations: CNN, Rail, SBB, ” SBB Locations: Swiss, “, Europe, Erstfeld, Zurich, Milan, Italy, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Genoa, Gotthard