Rail Baltic Estonia indicators €2.9 million contract to attach Muuga port, boosting commerce, freight capability, and infrastructure growth.
Credit score: Rail Baltica
Rail Baltic Estonia has signed a €2.9 million design contract with Estonian agency AllSpark OÜ to attach the Port of Muuga to the long run Rail Baltica line. The 16km Soodevahe–Muuga part, meant for freight rail visitors, represents a serious growth for Estonia’s railway and logistics infrastructure.
Anvar Salomets, Chairman of the Administration Board of Rail Baltic Estonia, underlined the strategic significance of the Muuga hyperlink:
“Connecting the Muuga freight terminal to the Rail Baltica line is of strategic significance for Estonia. It’s the solely location in Estonia the place a rail line constructed to the European customary will join on to a seaport…”
Valdo Kalm, Chairman of the Port of Tallinn, added:
“The Rail Baltica connection offers Estonian logistics a brand new dimension… Due to the Rail Baltica freight terminal, there is a chance to form a freight hall linking Northern and Southern Europe…”
The challenge will embrace a brand new 1,435mm gauge railway and redesigns of affected infrastructure, resembling the present 1,520mm gauge line, intersecting roads, and utility networks. Service roads, noise limitations, culverts, retaining partitions, and a management centre with depot amenities may also be deliberate within the Muuga terminal space.
Erki Kimber, Board Member of AllSpark OÜ, praised the chance for home experience to shine:
“That is probably the most intensive and longest part we’ve got labored on up to now… The Soodevahe–Muuga part is a superb alternative for Estonian engineers to exhibit their competence and ingenuity…”
The contract runs till September 2027, however design work for some elements shall be accomplished earlier, permitting development to start that very same yr. Full development is anticipated to proceed by means of to 2030, as Rail Baltic Estonia progresses in direction of a contemporary, Europe-connected freight community.
