Piraeus-Rijeka intermodal express service is up and running
Led by Cosco Shipping and railfreight partner Ocean Rail Logistics, a new service recently started from the Adriatic Gate Container Terminal (AGCT), the Croatian subsidiary of International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (Ictsi), at the port of Rijeka.
The new service consists of the regular maritime Piraeus–Rijeka Express Service (PRS), exclusively connecting Rijeka and Piraeus (Greece), and with it aligned rail connections: block trains on the Rijeka–Budapest–Rijeka and Rijeka–Belgrade–Rijeka routes.
By interconnecting maritime and rail services using the Rijeka Land Sea Express, Cosco offers shippers transit times of 32 days from East China and 28 days from South China to Budapest, using Piraeus and Rijeka as ports. Overall, Cosco’s throughput via Rijeka has increased by 30% since the start of the project in March 2019. (fd)