In 2023, the Federal Agency for Transport Regulation launched an audit into the accounting separation for the year 2022 of the SNCB, as set out in Articles 4 and 9 of the Rail Code. As part of the audit, the following aspects were examined for the first time: During this audit, the Agency did not […]
On 10th of July 2026, the Federal Agency for Transport Regulation received a full notification from “Arriva Personenvervoer Nederland B.V.” regarding the new passenger rail service for the “Amersfoort–Paris” route and vice versa, with scheduled stops including Breda, Antwerp, Brussels Airport Zaventem, Brussels-Midi and Mons, as well as for the ‘The Hague–Paris ’ route and […]
The federal Agency for Transportregulation has published its annual report 2025. It can be consulted here and on the Linked-In page of the Agency
On January 13, 2026, ART issued an opinion on the draft transport agreement submitted by NMBS and Infrabel, which will be in force for the next five years. This opinion suggested two areas for improvement, namely 1) not concluding the transport agreement before the expiry of ART’s advisory period and 2) extending Article 7.4 of […]
The infrastructure manager requested advice from ART regarding a new procedure for observing temporary capacity restrictions in the timetable. On the 3rd of December, ART submitted this advice to the infrastructure manager. The advice can be consulted here (original document in Dutch; English version is machine translated).
ART is currently developing a new market monitoring platform. Our aim is to share our data and knowledge with all stakeholders in an accessible, visual and interactive way.Our interactive dashboards will soon be online.Below is a preview of one of the future dashboards on “International rail connections from Belgium”: The range of international train connections […]
ART is currently developing a new market monitoring platform. Our aim is to share our data and knowledge with all stakeholders in an accessible, visual and interactive way.Our interactive dashboards will soon be online.Below is a preview of one of the future dashboards on “Freight Transport by rail”: The tonnage of goods transported by rail […]
National passenger transport is relatively stable in terms of train kilometres.
European destinations to or from Brussels Airport dot not play a significant role in freight transport
Brussels Airport, an exception for cargo: 15 years of positive development.
Following its earlier decision D-2025-01-S regarding the rates charged by Lineas, as operator of the service facility, for the services provided at the Antwerp North sorting yard, and taking into account the adjustments and clarifications made by Lineas, the Federal Agency for Transport Regulation finally approved the rates for 2026 by decision D -2025-02-S. The […]
Rebalancing: airline charges rise, to the benefit of passenger charges which fall.
