The Belgian city of Liège is going to see more freight trains running thanks to a number of new international services launched in the past few weeks. Connections from the Liège Trilogiport and the Liège Logistics Intermodal terminals to Slovakia, Romania and Italy were recently introduced for a total of 10 trains per week.
The service from the Liége Trilogiport signals the return of rail freight services at the facility, as Port de Liège said. The initiative connects the Trilogiport to the Stellantis plant in Trnava, Slovakia. This 651-metre train will run once a week in cooperation with Hödlmayr Group, bringing 277 cars to Belgium every week, removing 2,000 trucks from the road.
To Italy and Romania
The other connections concern the Liège Logistics Intermodal terminal, a terminal managed by Novandi. The service to Romania is not necessarily new, but its starting point was moved to Liège from Genk, as our sister publication Flows mentioned. This train will depart three times a week with traction provided by RTB Cargo, with intentions to increase it to seven.
The one going to Italy is run by CargoBeamer, a specialist in the rail transport of non-cranable semi-trailers. The link is between the intermodal terminal and Domodossola and Parma. These trains will run six times a week and are open to all the main types of loading units. The aim of these services is to pick up some of the volumes lost by the discontinuation of the rolling highway service between Italy and Germany, CargoBeamer specified.
