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Designed to draw Chinese container train traffic through Ukraine, a road-rail intermodal container terminal now under construction near the Hungary-Ukraine border​ will have the capacity to handle 1mn containers a year. This would be more than double the number of containers that moved on UZ tracks in all of Ukraine last year. “The implementation of this project will lead to a very significant increase in traffic and revenue for Ukraine,” Janos Taloshi, CEO of East-West Gate, tells the centre for Transportation Strategies. After the project opens, the company plans to invest in infrastructure in Ukraine.
In January, a record 14 Chinese container trains rolled across Ukraine​, reports Ukrzaliznytsia. The top destinations were: Poland – 7; Hungary – 6; Slovakia – 1. Two container trains from China finished their 2-week trip at UZ’s logistics centre in Liski, on the left bank of Kyiv.
Hungary has confirmed that it will loan €50mn to Ukravtodor to rebuild two bridges over the river border​ with Ukraine and a 10 km stretch of highway to better connect Hungarian and Ukrainian highway systems. While Hungary builds the last 26 km of a 307 km four lane divided highway from Budapest to the Ukrainian border, Hungarian money will finance a northern prolongation over the Tisa River and around Berehove to connect with Ukraine’s M-24. Traffic planners predict this extension could handle 12,000 cars and trucks a day.
In a bold bid for China-EU rail traffic, Poland’s PKP Cargo plans to invest $1bn in a village on the border with Belarus ​to create what the state company calls Europe’s largest and most modern and largest logistics centre. With construction expected to start next year by PKP’s Cargotur unit, the centre in Maaszewicze would handle at least two container trains an hour, according to Railway.supply news site.
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