Priority Project 16 - Freight railway axis Sines/Algeciras-Madrid-Paris

The project aims to develop a high capacity freight railway axis linking the two key ports of Algeciras in southern Spain and Sines in southwestern Portugal with the centre of the EU.

So far, these infrastructures have been mostly used for transhipment or transfer to road, but were not suitable to be efficient terminals due to the lack of an adequate rail connection.

In Portugal, the line links the three logistic platforms of Sines, Poceirão and Elvas/Badajoz. In Spain, it reaches a major port (Algeciras) and the main logistics platform (PLA.ZA).
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As a direct result, this infrastructure will foster rail traffic between Lisbon, Setúbal, Sines and Algeciras, central Spain and the rest of Europe.

in Comisão Europeia (Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency)