News / Duisburg and Cosco to build Europe's largest inland container terminal

Toy train connecting Europa and China. Yidaiyilu project

31/10/2019

The port of Duisburg is teaming up with Cosco Shipping Logistics to build Europe’s largest inland container terminal, as it looks to tap into “booming” Silk Road rail volumes.

However, the move follows claims that Chinese subsidies were turning the burgeoning rail route into a “huge bubble,” due the large number of empty blocktrains leaving China.

According to port operator Duisport, the €100m ’Duisburg Gateway Terminal’ will be built by 2022 on a 240,000sq metre site, with an intermodal facility that will ...