{"id":16688,"date":"2025-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/construction-of-a-multimodal-cargo-terminal-has-begun-at-the-port-of-dunkirk\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T00:00:00","slug":"construction-of-a-multimodal-cargo-terminal-has-begun-at-the-port-of-dunkirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/construction-of-a-multimodal-cargo-terminal-has-begun-at-the-port-of-dunkirk\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction of a multimodal cargo terminal has begun at the port of Dunkirk."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Construction has begun on a multimodal freight terminal in the northern French port city of Dunkirk, developed jointly by the Port of Dunkirk and Modalis Group. The project is estimated to cost \u20ac25 million, with commissioning scheduled for spring 2026. The new terminal will be part of a strategy to develop sustainable and intermodal transport in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The 9.6-hectare terminal will be located along the Longs-Plage railway line in the heart of an industrial zone, close to the port terminals servicing ro-ro vessels from the UK and Ireland. The infrastructure will accommodate up to four 750-meter-long trains, each designed to carry 130-150 semi-trailers. Temporary storage areas will accommodate more than 600 transport units, including containers and semi-trailers.<\/p>\n<p>The terminal is expected to take up to 50,000 trucks off the road annually and reduce CO\u2082 emissions by nearly 70,000 tonnes. The facility will utilize low-emission equipment, including electric locomotives and vehicles powered by HVO biofuel. A maintenance facility for railcars, swap bodies, and semi-trailers will also be established on site. The first rail route will connect Dunkirk with Piacenza via Lyon and will be operated by Delta Rail, a subsidiary of Modalis Group, providing a reliable connection between the industrial regions of Northern and Southern Europe and maritime transport across the English Channel in conjunction with DFDS lines.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction has begun on a multimodal freight terminal in the northern French port city of Dunkirk, developed jointly by the Port of Dunkirk and Modalis Group. The project is estimated to cost \u20ac25 million, with commissioning scheduled for spring 2026. The new terminal will be part of a strategy to develop sustainable and intermodal transport in the region.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}