Romania builds Europe's largest rail grain terminal to aid Ukraine, providing vital export route
The Grampet group of companies, the leader in private rail freight transport in Romania, has completed the construction of a transshipment terminal for agricultural products, which will become a strategic hub on the route to the port of Constanta, reported Forbes Romania.
The volume of investments in the creation of a new complex is 10 million euros. The capacity of the terminal allows processing 240,000 tons of grain and other agricultural products per month.
Located in Dornești (Suceava County), on the border with Ukraine, the complex is the first terminal managed by Grup Feroviar Român and the fifth for the Grampet Group.
With a maximum design capacity of 3 million tons, the complex is equipped with a wagon loading station (128 m long) and an unloading station (120 m long), which allow simultaneous loading/unloading of eight wagons.
The capacities are similar to terminals in sea and river ports, which makes it possible to transport products without loss of quality and with a maximum productivity of 500 tons per hour.
"Romania plays an important role in the work of the solidarity lanes created by the EU member states to facilitate the transportation of goods from Ukraine. After the start of the war, the railway operators of the Grampet Group made a significant contribution to the establishment of traffic and the restoration of the main corridors on the North-South axis, providing the transportation of more than 1 5 million tons of cargo from Ukraine," said Gruia Stoica, president of Grampet Group.
The investor says that the complex in Dornești is the largest transshipment terminal for agricultural products in Europe. It is going to be opened immediately after the end of the test period.
At the beginning of March 2024, the construction of the multimodal transport terminal Fishka Nov started in Chernivtsi Oblast on the border with Romania. It will accept wagons from the Ukrainian gauge with a width of 1520 mm and reload them into wagons with a European gauge of 1435 mm.