intermodal freight terminal

Rostock, September 2026: The Port of Rostock has expanded its infrastructure for facilitating intermodal freight transport. At the intermodal terminal, the length of railway track was increased from 600 to 680 metres, and the expanded facility was officially put into operation on 1^st September following a construction phase of approximately 16 months. This enables longer freight trains to be served by both of the terminal’s gantry cranes at once and reduces the need to split trains, making transshipment between ship, rail and road more efficient.

Inros Lackner, in a joint venture with HTG Ingenieure, provided the planning and design services (HOAI phases 2–6) for the expansion of the transshipment terminal – including the track extension – on behalf of Rostock Port. The Inros Lackner team’s services primarily involved extending the track and crane runway systems and implementing the resulting associated requirements. These included, among other things, the partial removal of existing facilities and the modification of terminal surfaces, lighting, utilities and crane systems.

Drawing on our extensive experience in planning and designing port, rail and other transport infrastructure, we support the development of such complex interfaces in port infrastructure where ferry and Ro-Ro traffic meets rail and road transport. The optimised operational workflows create additional capacity for intermodal freight transport. The terminal is currently connected to destinations in Germany, Italy, Slovakia and Romania by up to 44 intermodal transport trains per week.

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