Private rail freight and logistics operator Grampet Group has opened a new agricultural rail terminal in Romania, World Grain wrote.
With 3M tonnes/year of capacity, the company’s grain trans-shipment terminal in Dornesti was expected to strengthen the country’s position as a railway and logistics hub in Central and Southeast Europe while boosting grain traffic from Ukraine, the 21 June report said.
Built through a public-private partnership with the Grampet Group providing an investment of €10M, the terminal had been designed for around-the-clock operations, the company was quoted as saying.
As the terminal used similar technology and equipment to Romania’s river and seaports, it was expected to streamline trans-shipments to the Port of Constanta, World Grain wrote.
Situated on the Ukraine border in northwest Romania, the new terminal was also expected to enable grain shipments from Ukraine – a major supplier of wheat, corn, barley and sunflower oil – to global markets, the report said.
Romania was one of several European Union (EU) countries that had been used as alternative transit routes for Ukrainian grain to help offset slower exports via Ukraine’s Black Sea ports after Russia’s invasion in February 2022, World Grain wrote.
During an inauguration ceremony at the terminal, Grampet Group president Gruia Stoica said the facility would allow the simultaneous trans-shipment of eight Ukrainian-type wide gauge grain wagons and eight normal gauge Romanian-type wagons.
According to its website, the Grampet Group is the first multinational company with Romanian capital and has become the largest private freight rail transporter in south-eastern Europe.
Services offered by the group include transportation, logistics, locomotive and wagon production, as well as other rolling stock components and leasing services.
