{"id":590850,"date":"2026-10-19T10:07:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=590850"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T08:08:30","slug":"latvian-railways-raises-grain-transit-fees-by-just-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/latvian-railways-raises-grain-transit-fees-by-just-25","title":{"rendered":"Latvian Railways Raises Grain Transit Fees By Just 25%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Latvian Railways has increased fees for grain transit from Belarus and Russia by just 25%, although Latvia\u2019s parliament, the Saeima, had called for a threefold increase. LSM <a href=\"https:\/\/rus.lsm.lv\/statja\/novosti\/ekonomika\/19.10.2026-borba-s-rossiiskim-zernom-serezna-lis-na-slovax-obeshhannoe-povysenie-tarifov-okazalos-nevozmozhnym.a668097\/\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The law aimed at restricting transit did not contain a specific provision requiring a 300% increase. Instead, this remained a government appeal to LatRailNet, a subsidiary of Latvian Railways. It turned out that such an increase was not possible.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhen determining infrastructure charges, we of course carefully considered the prime minister\u2019s call to increase them by 300%. On the other hand, we operate within the legal framework of the European Union,\u201d<\/em> LatRailNet head <strong>Justina Hudenko<\/strong>\u00a0explained.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, EU legislation requires infrastructure usage charges to be set based on the costs of maintaining it. As a result, tariffs were increased by an average of 25%. It was also noted that a threefold increase would have been economically unsustainable and would have led to a significant reduction or complete cessation of freight traffic, while also exposing Latvia to the risk of EU infringement proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>According to the publication, grain transit costs for shippers range from \u20ac25 to \u20ac30 per tonne. The tariff increase did not raise these costs by even one euro per tonne.<\/p>\n<p>According to customs data from the State Revenue Service (SRS), 888,000 tonnes of Russian and Belarusian grain had been transported through Latvia by October 6. This is 36.3% more than in all of 2025, when the volume totalled 652,000 tonnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latvian Railways has increased fees for grain transit from Belarus and Russia by just 25%, although Latvia\u2019s parliament, the Saeima, had called for a threefold increase. LSM reports. The law aimed at restricting transit did not contain a specific provision requiring a 300% increase. Instead, this remained a government appeal to LatRailNet, a subsidiary of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":510672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/6ad5d002debff.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Latvian Railways Raises Grain Transit Fees By Just 25%"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143284,143126],"tags":[143171],"class_list":["post-590850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-world","category-business","tag-latvija"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":590852,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590850\/revisions\/590852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}