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Started the construction of the new railway corridor goods between Portugal and Spain
It will connect the ports of Lisbon, Sines and Setubal (Blue Atlantic) with the Spanish market and the remainder of the European continent
March 14, 2018
In recent days the start of the work of construction of the railway line of 94 kilometers that will connect Évora, in the region of Alentejo is inaugurated in Portugal, with Elvas, on the border with Spain. The new line, as António Costa has remembered the portuguese Prime Minister, will be the more important realized railway work in Portugal in last the 100 years and will integrate the railway corridor whom it begins to Lisbon, Setúbal and Sines and has as Badajozm destination, Spanish citizen to little kilometers from Elvas.
The realization of the new railway line, that it will be dedicated above all to the transport of the goods, will involve an investment of 509 million euros of which 277 million deep national bottoms and 232 of the EU and, second the forecasts, will be completed in 2022. The new railroads will allow to connect at the market Spanish and to the remainder of the European continent it is the port of Lisbon that of Sines, but also the port of Setubal and in particular the Blue Atlantic Industrial & Logistics Park, the new logistic area of 96 hectares planned near Setubal that will be equipped also with a dock of 800 linear meters with backdrop of the depth of -13 meters that will be able to receive two Panamax ships at the same time.
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