According to the Association of Logistics Centers (MLSZKSZ), 500,000 square meters of rail handling areas will be built for industrial plants and freight transport. According to estimates, this requires an investment of HUF 80-100 billion (EUR 207-258 million).
The expansion of the rail terminals in Fényeslitke began last year with the opening of the East-West Gate. Four more terminals are scheduled to open in 2024 and 2025. Europe’s largest intermodal land terminal, East-West Gate, is being expanded due to high demand for bulk cargo handling as a result of the Ukraine war.
Next year, the PSP terminal will be put into operation on the site of the former transshipment terminal in Kiskundorozsma, which will mainly accommodate traffic from the Southern Plain, Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria. The 48,000 square meters terminal, which is being built with an investment of HUF 500 million (EUR 1.2 million) by Petrolsped Transport Kft., will be able to load craneable and non-cranable semi-trailers and containers onto the rail .
The Debrecen terminal will then be inaugurated next to the BMW factory, which will primarily be used by automobile manufacturers and their suppliers. The 110,000 square meters area will be equipped with gantry cranes and mobile loading machines for loading containers and trailers. The cost of the additional equipment required to operate the terminal is HUF 17.2 billion (EUR 44.4 million).
The Zalaegerszeg terminal, which will be built at the intersection of the M76 motorway and the main railway line, and the Szeged terminal, which will be built in the industrial and logistics center of the county town of Csongrád, are being built by METRANS and are scheduled to open in 2025.
In Budapest, the 220,000 square meters site of the Rail Cargo Terminal – BILK Zrt. equipped with new container loading machines and investments in energy efficiency amounting to around HUF 250 million (EUR 646 thousand).
The MAHART Container Center Terminal will be expanded with HUF 5.8 billion (EUR 14.9 million) by the first half of 2025. In addition to the current 110,000 square meters, almost 20,000 square meters of new space will be built, around 15,000 square meters will be modernized and railway tracks will be built and renovated.
The owner GYSEV Cargo is again planning to modernize and expand the Sopron terminal, having already renovated the technology on the 40,500 square meters site in two phases in the 2010s.