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Following a closure of multiple weeks due to damage that occurred on its Belgian section during the floods of July, the North Sea–Mediterranean rail freight corridor has become operational again on 16 August.

The corridor’s railway lines were severely damaged at Mont-Saint-Guibert, near Wavre in Belgium’s Wallonia region. While the rail freight corridor was closed, the infrastructure manager examined two options to keep traffic disturbances between Flemish seaports and the Mediterranean Sea at a minimum. The traffic was eventually rerouted via the Artère Nord Est line, which is a railway line in Northern France that runs from Lille to Charleville, Thionville and Metz, where the Belgian route of the North Sea-Mediterranean Corridor also connects. Since early June, the line was damaged and out of use after an accident involving a train and a truck at the level crossing in Hirson. Because of the damage to the level crossing, freight transport was only possible at night.

Source: RailFreight