Port of Sète to move 40,000 containers to UK by train annually

Sète, France (PortSEurope) April 4, 2022 – The Mediterranean port of Sète-Frontignan will send 40,000 containers, out of a total of 100,000, from Turkey, to the UK by 2025, up from the current 10,000. "We can transport containers from Turkey to the UK without using the road," Olivier Carmès, director, port of Sète, said about the port’s strategic development plan. Danish shipowner DFDS will deliver containers from Yalova in Turkey. The Sète-Calais project was selected by the government as a rail motorway together with Perpignan-Rungis and Bayonne-Cherbourg. The Occitanie Region and the port have already invested €8 million ($8.8 million) in the project. The European Union provides 60% of the financing. The private railway operator, VIIA, will also invest €8 million. The port and Occitanie Region invested in a new six-hectare rail platform, operational in October 2021 with three loading lanes. It is dedicated to supporting rail traffic, mostly the Sète-Calais project. VIIA will launch the following new services: Sète-Calais line (18h transit) as part of the rail motorways, and Sète-Bettembourg (12h), and Sète-Gennevilliers. Also, last March, the logistics service provider CargoBeamer launched a new, twice weekly connection for the unaccompanied transport of semi-trailers by rail between Cologne in Germany and Sète. It is also to develop new lines to Kaldenkirchen in the Netherlands. The French company Europorte serves as the traction partner for the Franco-German line. Europorte is a subsidiary of the Getlink Group, which also operates the Eurotunnel, the only rail link between France and the UK. DFDS currently operates a motorway of the sea between the ports of Yalova, Turkey, and Sète with four calls per week. In 2021, more than 80,000 units (semi-trailers, containers) passed through Sète. This offers a fast and competitive maritime alternative to carriers who usually use the route between Anatolia, Turkey, and Europe. Sète as a multimodal hub Sète is well on the way to increasing its presence on the intermodal map. A new multimodal terminal is under construction, scheduled to enter service at the beginning of 2023. The terminal will also be able to accept non-cranable trailers, a huge advantage as it will enhance the possibility of shifting cargo from the road onto rails. Middle Corridor - The Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR) The new, alternative route to the middle of Europe is also interesting considering the recently increased interest in the Middle Corridor. It is the a connecting China and Europe via Turkey. Companies that do not wish and currently cannot transit cargo through Russia, are looking for transport solutions via the Middle Corridor, and from Turkey onwards to Europe. From Turkey, overland as well as rail-sea routes are available. Multimodal rail routes run for example via the deep sea port of Trieste, Italy or Sète. More PortSEurope news about the port of Sete Copyright (C) PortSEurope. All Rights Reserved. 2022.

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