The EU’s TEN-T Programme will back with over €5.5 million studies on solving the main railway bottlenecks near the Port of Rotterdam in The Netherlands. The study results will help improve rail freight transport access to the port, the works are expected to start in 2016.
The capacity of the Caland Bridge connecting the Port of Rotterdam to the main European rail network needs a boost to cope with the increasing freight transport demand. It is currently considered to be the main bottleneck on the Dutch part of the rail freight corridors connecting Rotterdam to Germany, Poland, the Scandinavian countries and southern Europe.
As a result, the port’s western part will be able to receive more freight and meet increasing demand in the medium and longer term. The project is to be completed by December 2015.
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