Marseilles in talks on combined transport project

The group consists of Progenor, a Credit Agricole subsidiary specialising in multimodal platform projects, and three of the port’s established transport providers – CMA Rail, T3M and Naviland Cargo, a subsidiary of SNCF Geodis. Negotiations on co-financing and the operating agreement are now under way and due to be completed by the end of the year.

With an estimated cost of €60m (US$73m), the facility will provide a single rail-road interface that serves Med Europe container trades and also traffic displaced from a smaller combined transport terminal that is being redeveloped under the Euromediterranee urban renovation scheme.

The new hub will be able to handle 150,000 boxes and swap bodies per year, doubling capacity for rail-borne traffic in the Marseilles port zone and helping to reduce the current 85% balance of containers transported by road.