Intermodal Terminal Projects in Vilnius and Kaunas are being implemented successfully
Intermodal Terminal Projects in Vilnius and Kaunas are being implemented successfully, Lithuania’s Minister of Transport and Communications says.
“I am particularly pleased that ambitious key strategic projects, important for the national and international transport and logistics system, are being implemented successfully. These projects will increase Lithuania’s transportation and logistics system competitiveness, augment state’s national budget and create jobs,” on his visit to Vilnius and Kaunas intermodal terminals said Rimantas Sinkevičius, Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania.
In order to implement an effective land, air and water transportation interoperability, Public Logistic Centers are being established in strategically most suitable major cities of Lithuania. It is expected that intermodal terminals at the Vilnius and Kaunas Public Logistic Centres will start to operate by the end of 2014.
Vilnius intermodal terminal is located next to the Vaidotai railway cargo transit station, which is the largest in Lithuania, and the southern Vilnius ring road. Once the project is completed, the cargo will be moved quickly and conveniently from the port of Klaipeda to Vilnius, Belarus and destinations further to the East. Without doubts, the region will feel the benefit i.e. it will create new jobs, reduce the flow of trucks in the city and well as the number of accidents, amount of the pollution and noise.
Kaunas intermodal terminal will be operating in strategically convenient location – Palemonas yard area, where the rail infrastructure is well-developed, convenient access to the country’s main roads is established, the two Pan-European transport corridors and their branches (transport corridor I and transport corridor IX) and the Kaunas International Airport are nearby. In addition, the seaports of Klaipeda and Kaliningrad, opening the routes to the Western and Eastern European markets and CIS countries, are also relatively close.