Italy's appeal to the European Court of Justice against Austria's restrictions on industrial vehicle transit along the Brenner axis, which we talked about in this article, appears to be of little concern to Vienna, as evidenced by Austria's decision to continue truck dosage in 2025.
The dosage will take place at Kufstein-Kiefersfelden for heavy vehicles coming from Germany and heading south towards Italy. The measure involves halting trucks when traffic reaches a flow of 300 vehicles per hour. Austria has announced the dosage dates, for the first quarter of 2025: Tuesday the 7th of January and every Monday in the months of February and March.
Thus, the trade associations, together with Anita - National Association of Automotive Transport Companies of Confindustria, are calling on the government to urgently act to avoid disruption to the logistics sector in the North East. The blocks on the Brenner Pass – a key transit route between Italy and Austria (Italy exports over 32% of its production to Europe along this Pass) – will cause longer delivery time and therefore an increase in prices for consumers, as well as consequences for the entire North East system with an increase in heavy traffic in Friuli, in Tarvisio, where the second motorway crossing between Italy and Austria is located.
In addition to the inevitable difficulties at the main Alpine pass route, there is also the ongoing work on the A10 Tauern motorway in the Ofenauer, Hiefler and Werfen tunnels, which is expected to last until June 2025. Not to mention the reconstruction work on the Lueg bridge on the A13 motorway, near the border with Italy, which will begin on the 1st of January 2025 and a series of roadway restrictions are expected for 170 days.
