Airport News
A €2.2 million study is to investigate the creation of a rail and road cargo link at Liège Airport in Belgium.
The European Union is part-funding the investigation through its Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency (TEN-T).
The new “railport” will enable the “seamless movement of freight” between road, rail and air, the TEN-T said.
The railport, which will be constructed by Liège CAREX, will be part of a future European express rail freight network.
Liège CAREX is part of Euro CAREX, an organisation which includes Lyon, Paris, London and Amsterdam, and aims to improve intermodal transport and, in particular, to shift freight from air and road to rail mode.
TEN-T say trains will travel on high speed lines and offer “a viable alternative to the short-distance intra-European flights and to express road freight”.
The study will be managed by TEN-T and is set to be completed by November 2014.
