{"id":383764,"date":"2026-03-09T19:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.railfreight.com\/?p=69843"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:58:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:58:17","slug":"metrans-acquires-50-of-afluent-arad-south-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=383764","title":{"rendered":"Metrans takes 50% stake in Romanian terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Intermodal operator Metrans finalised the acquisition of a 50% stake in the AFLUENT Arad South Terminal in Romania, near the border with Hungary. The facility is close to Szeged (HU), where the company is building another terminal.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span id=\"more-98030\"><\/span>\u201cThis investment will further strengthen our terminal network and reinforce our strategic presence in Southeast Europe\u201d, Metrans said on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>The company launched a new connection between Bucharest and Arad in the summer of 2025. From there, further connections are possible to various destinations, especially in Hungary and Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Metrans pointed out that the only thing left to do is \u201cthe completion of all legislative processes\u201d. The Czechia-based operator is not the only company that recently showed interest in the AFLUENT Arad South Terminal. For example, semi-trailers on rail specialist Helrom implemented a new connection between D\u00fcsseldorf and the Romanian terminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intermodal operator Metrans finalised the acquisition of a 50% stake in the AFLUENT Arad South Terminal in Romania, near the border with Hungary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17225,19814,978,471,12339,3341],"tags":[12159],"class_list":["post-383764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afluent","category-afluent-arad-south-terminal","category-metrans","category-news","category-ports-terminals","category-romania","tag-world-cargo-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383764"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384290,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383764\/revisions\/384290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}