CONSTRUCTION of the largest and most modern railway
intermodal combi terminal in Europe has begun at the gates of the
European Union in Fenyeslitke, near the Hungarian-Ukrainian
border.
A news release sent to the Budapest Business Journal
said the project will cover some 125 hectares. The East-West Gate
Terminal, located at a key strategic point in the economic corridor of the Belt
and Road Initiative, is expected to be handed over in the first quarter of
2022. The construction of the substructure of the terminal and the normal
railway connection is already in progress.
The East-West Gate (EWG) will be the
continent's first land-based intermodal combi terminal based on green
technology using its own 5G network. The theoretical capacity of the terminal
is one million TEU per year. The terminal, as the western
gateway to the "New Silk Road", offers a faster alternative route to
Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, and Germany for freight traffic
from Asia than the current land and maritime routes, the press release notes.
The trial operation of the facility is
scheduled to begin in January next year, while its final handover is scheduled
for the first quarter of 2022. The EUR61 million (US$74.2 million) investment
is financed entirely from private sources. The Hungarian Government has
provided EUR8.2 million to EWG as job creation subsidy. There will be built
five wide-gauge and five narrow-gauge, 850 metre long craneable tracks at the
EWG terminal, therefore it will be possible to serve four 740-metre-long trains
at the same time.
According to the plans, the facility will be powered by
green technology, in line with the EU's rail and climate strategy. A
high-performance solar park as well as a heat pump system will provide power,
and only electric terminal tractors and e-cars will be used in the terminal
area.
The terminal will provide a full range of logistics
services and when the operation starts, offering customers 15,000 sqm of
leasable warehouse space. On the available unbuilt areas, an additional
500,000 sqm of warehouse, assembly, or production space can be established if
required, the release added.
Source : HKSG / Illustration : Railway PRO.
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