About the project:
Objectives and Benefits
The capacity of the Małaszewicze Cargo Terminal infrastructure to be increased up to the expected throughput capacity for trains received for the transshipment of goods and dispatch by rail to East and West.
In order to increase the throughput capacity of the Małaszewicze Cargo Terminal, it is necessary to modernise and expand 1435 mm and 1520 mm rail arrangements, as well as to develop modern rail traffic control systems.
Increased speeds
Average traffic speed increased up to 40 km/h, with the maximum axle load up to 245 kN
Optimum capacity
Optimised arrangement of rails, ensuring increased throughput capacity of rail systems and access tracks, as well as facilitated shunting at terminals
Safety
Modern railway traffic control system implemented

Feasibility study
Currently, a feasibility study is being prepared, to include financial, economic and technical analyses. The feasibility study will be prepared in 4 variants, with a recommendation and a building permit design.

a no-CAPEX variant (aimed at maintaining the existing condition)

modernisation of the existing railway infrastructure

modernisation and extension of the existing railway infrastructure

modernisation and extension of the existing railway infrastructure to a maximum extent
Financing
The “Connecting Europe” financing instrument has been devised to implement the European policy in the field of transport infrastructure. Its purpose is to support the development of a new transport infrastructure in Europe and the modernisation of the existing infrastructure.
Project 2015-PL-TM-0037-S „Modernization of railway infrastructure at the Małaszewicze Transloading Zone forming part of the Rail Freight Corridor no. 8, at the border between the EU and Belarus – studies” is co-financed by the European Union from the Cohesion Fund under the Connecting Europe CEF facility.
The project net value is: € 2.603.923,99 of which qualified funds amount to € 2.213.335,40 – a 85% financing rate.
