The East-West Gate (EWG) intermodal terminal, located in Fényeslitke, near the Hungarian-Ukrainian border, involved a private investment of more than HUF 40,000 million. The new intermodal terminal can handle up to one million 20-foot containers per year, making it the largest facility of its kind on the continent in terms of theoretical capacity and area. The terminal is capable of transferring containers between wide and standard tracks, as well as between trains and trucks.
EWG is also suitable for loading conventional road trucks and semi-trailers onto rails. This will allow transferring as much of the freight traffic arriving by truck at the EU border to the railways as possible, in line with the EU's climate objectives. EWG cranes are ATEX and ADR certified, so they can also carry special materials, such as gas-container and chemicals tanks.
The new terminal was also prepared for the transshipment of Ukrainian agricultural products, adapting to the war situation. Starting November 2022, it is expected to be able to handle 800 tons of grain and 450 cubic meters of sunflower oil per hour, making it the largest railway hub for Ukraine's food exports. At the opening ceremony, the first train carrying Ukrainian agricultural products, a shipment organized by EWG, arrived at the terminal. A total of 1,146 tons of wheat, millet, and peas shipped by Ugrain Trade LLC arrive in 44 twenty-foot containers and, after trans-shipment, are transported to the Free Port of Csepel.
EWG is also the first terminal in Europe to remotely control cranes using 5G technology. The terminal has a giant 41-meter-wide crane and two 28-meter-wide cranes on rails, as well as a 20-meter-high crane on tires. The cranes, supplied by the Austrian company Künz, will be controlled from the terminal's center in real-time. They are equipped with 20 high-resolution cameras that, with the help of 5G, allow the people controlling the cranes to see in real-time what they would see if they were working in the crane cabin. The 5G private network required for this was built by Vodafone Hungary and the network equipment was supplied by Huawei.
Source: portalportuario.cl