Riesa's harbor project: Millions of errors in the federal budget uncovered!

Riesa's harbor project: Millions of errors in the federal budget uncovered!

Riesa, Deutschland - In an impressive preparatory work, Lars Klingbeil, the Federal Minister of Finance, brought the new federal budget into parliament for 2025. The design comprises almost 3500 pages and is affected with all kinds of changes. Riesa is mentioned not only because of the planned rail investment, but also because of the new construction of the KV terminal in the Gröba port. Sächsische.de reports that… The port operator SBO for many years has been planning at this terminal Containers should optimize between ship, train and truck. An enormous capacity increase is in sight - the annual cover capacity is to be increased from currently 40,000 to up to 100,000 containers.

The development around the building permit is particularly exciting. After more than ten years of approval phase, the State Directorate of Saxony finally gave the project the green thumb last year. Construction on the Südkai could begin soon, with an expected start in the coming year. However, there is also a downside here: the cost planning must be brought up to date. As it turns out, the original funding from 2012 was based over 18.85 million euros on a cost estimate of barely 31 million euros.

faulty reports and double medium

In the current federal budget, a sum of 37.7 million euros is surprisingly specified for the KV terminal, which represents twice the original funding amount. The federal government had received the reason for this increased sum from a faulty report from the General Directorate of waterways and shipping (GDWS). This had noted the approved funds as already issued in the budget, which inevitably led to the double award. So far, however, no federal funding for the Riesaer project has been issued, which the situation also complicated Bundesag.de ....

According to the information available so far, SBO already submitted a change application to further federal funds for the KV terminal in April 2023. However, a decision on the requested funding amount is still pending. It is all the more important to clarify how the funds can now be used. The entire budget provides for around 503 billion euros and a significantly increased investment volume of 62.7 billion euros. Bundes-regierung.de summarizes…. It is particularly noteworthy that the goal of the federal investments by 2029 should be increased to a record -breaking sum of almost 120 billion a year to keep Germany modern and competitive.

political responsibility

The Federal Government has set the course for the future with the present draft for the Federal Balentment 2025. Chancellor Friedrich Merz emphasizes that the available decisions should serve as the basis for economic and financial policy. This is also associated with the plan to reform the debt rule and enable specific exceptions. Overall, a clear focus on investments, structural reforms and consolidation can be seen.

As it goes on with the expansion of the Riesa harbor, remains exciting. The citizens hope for a quick clarification of the financial questions in order to experience enjoyable progress. In the coming weeks, the Bundestag will deal more intensively with the draft budget, and it remains to be seen how the decision to apply for federal funds for the terminal will be.