Near the Hungarian-Ukrainian border at the town Fényeslitke the construction of East-West Gate (EWG) started to develop the largest in Europe intermodal railway compound terminal, as reported by the Hungarian news agency Pressinform.
The report notes that EWG is going to become the first inland intermodal compound terminal at the continent built by ‘green’ technologies and having its own 5g network. The terminal’s area of 125 ha will enable it to reach in theory 1M TEU per annum.
It is anticipated that EWG should play a key part in the goods delivery between Asia and Europe by an alternative route, providing faster and larger shipments than earlier.
“The intermodal terminal EWG equipped with up-to-date technologies being the Western sluice of New Silk Road will offer an alternative route of cargo traffic from Asia to Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, and Germany, to become faster than the existing inland and sea routes”, says the report.
The object’s trial deployment is to be started in January 2022, while the final delivery should take place in the first quarter of 2022. The investments assessed as €61M are funded totally by private sources.
https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-economy/3169076-na-kordoni-ugorsini-ta-ukraini-budut-najbilsij-u-evropi-zaliznicnij-terminal.html