Brussels, 16/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 13 October the European Commission authorised a Slovak scheme to encourage the development of combined transport. The aid measures will contribute to achieve a traffic shift of freight from road to other modes of transport, in particular to rail and inland waterway transport. The subsidies granted under the Slovak scheme will compensate a part of eligible costs in the start-up period of project implementation in combined transport. The scheme will be...