Port of Dunkirk to build new combined transport terminal

The Port of Dunkirk is poised to launch construction work on a combined transport terminal, enabling trailers and swap bodies to be loaded onto rail wagons. The facility is scheduled to enter service early next year and its management and operation has been put out to tender.

Dunkirk claims to be France’s leading multi-modal port and the project to build a combi terminal is in line with a strategy to encourage the modal shift to rail. Approached by Railfreight.com, a spokesperson for the port authority could not provide additio…