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The Harbour Authority of Antwerp participates to the consortium that will realize a railway terminal in the south of Holland
the investment of the agency piles to 15,5 million euros
May 16, 2012
The Harbour Authority of Antwerp has defined the acquisition of an own participation in the consortium that will operate the new railway terminal that will be realized in the area of Chemelot to Geleen, in Holland. The consortium sees which other partner the Dutch Ewals Intermodal and the Meulenberg: the first is an intermodal society that work among other things trains for Italy, while the second one is a company engaged mainly in the marine transport of container from the region of Limburg and the Ruhr to the ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
The investment of the Belgian harbour agency piles to 15,5 million euros. The construction of the terminal will be started on half of this year and the system will become operating in April 2013. Chemelot, that it covers 800 hectares, is situated in second the main Dutch area of the chemical industry.
Remembering that the decision of the agency to take part to the project is yields of a study started in 2009, the managing director of the Antwerp Port Authority, Eddy Bruyninckx, has explained that the participation to the railway terminal in southern Holland is framed in the strategy of the Harbour Authority for the development of the connections with the hinterland. "To participate to this new terminal to Geleen - he has emphasized Bruyninckx - he frames himself perfectly in this strategy. More in particular, the railway terminal will serve the increasing quota railroad in the entire modal division of transport between Holland of the south and Antwerp. Moreover this will allow to attract puts up cargo volumes from southern Holland towards Antwerp".
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The Harbour Authority of Antwerp has defined the acquisition of an own participation in the consortium that will operate the new railway terminal that will be realized in the area of Chemelot to Geleen, in Holland. The consortium sees which other partner the Dutch Ewals Intermodal and the Meulenberg: the first is an intermodal society that work among other things trains for Italy, while the second one is a company engaged mainly in the marine transport of container from the region of Limburg and the Ruhr to the ports of Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
