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Hamburg Metropolitan Region: Major investment in freight traffic routes
The increasing demand for freight transport requires further upgrading of infrastructure for the ports.
In their coalition contract, the governing parties in Berlin have agreed to promote maritime locations and to bring about a transfer of traffic to environmen- tally-friendly rail. The Hamburg rail node has been classified as a top priority rail project by the federal government.
Since 2016, a second bypass track has been under construction skirt- ing the marshalling yards in Ma- schen for fast freight transport to the ports. A second track is cur- rently being laid in the north bend at Kornweide to improve access to the western side of the port by 2020. In addition, to disentangle traffic flows, by 2026, a grade- separated junction will be built at Meckelfeld, and upgraded to four tracks. The federal government and Deutsche Bahn are investing a good 150 million euros in these three measures.
With the construction of an inter-linking bend in Har- burg and the cross-over junction in Wilhelmsburg, by the end of the next decade further bottlenecks should beeliminatedandcapacitytoandfromtheportsin-
creased. The planned major bottleneck solution will be to extend the track system between Hamburg and Bremen–Hanover. With 3.4 billion euros earmarked by the federal government, the increases in seaport hinterland traffic should be catered for.
An increase in capacity for freight traffic to/from Scandinavia will occur because of the construction
of new tracks for the S4 (east) rapid transit Ham- burg–BadOldesloe.ThisdevelMopmeetnrtoprpojeoctlrisegio
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Frank Limprecht
DB Netz AG, Manager Major Projects North
Bernhard Schmid
DB Netz AG, Port Representative
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