SPANISH PORT OF CASTELLON RECEIVES €132 MILLION TO CONNECT TO THE TEN-T NETWORK
The Spanish port of Castellon, between Valencia and Barcelona, will receive €132 million as part of a joint investment by the Adif (Spanish state-owned railway infrastructure manager) and the Castellon port authority to provide seamless rail access to major freight routes.
The new line will be exclusively used by freight trains and be fully electrified, with a use mixed gauge and facilitating 750 metres-long trains. Both Adif and the port have been planning to provide a new rail connect since June 2022, when Adif tendered the construction of a new railway line that would extend from the Mediterranean Corridor, which is close to the port, to the middle of the route leading to the port facilities.
The total length of the line that will link the port of Castellon to the Mediterranean Corridor is 8,3 kilometres, where 4,7 kilometres have already been built. The remaining 3,6 kilometres of track, which will provide direct rail access by extending infrastructure within the port’s facilities, are the focus of the latest investment of €132 million. In addition to the new rail line, Adif and the port of Castellon want to build an intermodal terminal which will be located between the port and the Mediterranean corridor.
Source: Railfreight.com