Arriva appeals to competition authority for more NS train routes

Transport company Arriva is appealing to the Dutch competition authority ACM in its quest to be allowed to take over 24 stop train services and two intercity routes from Dutch railway firm NS, chief executive Anne Hettinga told the Volkskrant in an interview. The routes are all part of what is considered to be the main Dutch railway network and therefore part of the package automatically allocated to NS, which is 100% state-owned. Arriva, which is owned by the German state...