An independent combined transport terminal in Paskov, run by AWT, the international transport group, a member of PKP CARGO, today belongs among one of the few open transhipment stations in the country. Thanks to its strategic position it performs the function of a public logistic centre and is one of the fastest so growing within the Czech Republic. Traffic at the Paskov terminal, which grew from a former brownfield site, was launched in 2007.
The large, originally disused industrial area of the Paskov mine, after the removal of defunct and derelict buildings, saw the commencement of operations with several hundred shipments per year, from a terminal which commenced its operation in 2007 with just two workers.
The logistics centre underwent a large-scale modernisation in the years 2011 and 2012, when, apart from the firming and draining of a part of the surface the original track was extended, including the reconstruction of the station by inserting four new switch points and the connection of signalling equipment. A railway crossing was built and two completely new tracks were installed. The terminal storage capacity was increased to 2,400 containers and the handling area of the terminal currently has a surface area of 31 thousand m2.
“This is a major intermodal terminal in the Czech Republic. It is an important transhipment point for the automotive industry in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and southern Poland. It’s the jewel in the AWT crown. It has a strategic location in Central Europe, has modern and professional equipment, has a large customer trust, and inter alia is therefore an important element in the planned development of the PKP CARGO group. As of this day we already provide transportation to Dutch and German ports, the Slovenian Koper, Italian Trieste or from Turkey, and in the future from the ports of the Threecities. Its capacity is fully utilised at present, and therefore it is necessary to extend it. The implementation of the investment, which will double its capacity and that is co-financed from EU funds as to about 66% has already commenced. AWT aims together with PKP CARGO to connect the terminal and to provide services for the New Silk Route and its better connection to Polish ports. The terminal is ultimately to become the main centre of the southern part of the Baltic-Adriatic-North Sea triangle,” said Arkadiusz Olewnik, CEO of AWT Group.
The terminal Ostrava-Paskov is strategically located in the centre of large industrial zones of the Moravian-Silesian region, is situated in the vicinity of the motorway, the Slovak and Polish border and is connected also onto the national rail network. The industrial zones in Ostrava-Hrabová, Nošovice, Mošnov, Český Těšín and Třinec are not more than 50 kilometres away. At present, the terminal annually handles more than 100 thousand containers and trailers and in conjunction with the associated services the transhipment centre provides work to more than 100 employees in the Ostrava region.
Currently, the next stage of modernisation of the centre is under way, whereby on the site of the original brownfield sites further industrial buildings of the former Paskov mine will be demolished allowing a gradual expansion of the storage capacity to 4,800 TEU and the handling areas to 71 thousand m2 and thus increasing employment within the region.
“We’ve always believed in the future of combined transport. We pioneered many years ago in the field of intermodal transport in the Czech Republic and the development of the Paskov Terminal in the last ten years is a clear proof of this. Due to the increasing interest in combined transport the AWT priority is the expansion of services for our customers, the increase of capacity and direct connection of the terminal to other European ports and the gaining of access to the transhipment centre in Poland, Belgium, the Netherlands or Romania,” says Viktor Bystrian, CCO of AWT Group.
Lukáš Kresač
Spokesperson
AWT Group, Member of PKP CARGO Group
The project “Paskov Multimodal Container Terminal” is co-financed by the European Union funds from the program Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Transport.
