The Spanish Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility will divert the Mediterranean Corridor through Madrid. The ministry awarded, through Adif, a new phase of the comprehensive remodelling of the Madrid-Vicálvaro freight terminal. The project will transform it into "one of the strategic logistical nodes for freight traffic in the Mediterranean and Atlantic corridors". According to the Ministry of Transport, the contract, awarded to the Temporary Union of Companies (UTE) formed by Dragados and Tecsa Empresa Constructora, will be worth 32.4 million Euro.
Specifically, an intermodal bundle of four through-tracks will be built, both north and south, and which will include a concrete slab for the regulation and storage of Intermodal Transport Units (ITU), managed with three automated gantries (A-RMG), which will carry out the work of handling ITU in the activities of loading and unloading from train to truck and storage of these. Their supply has already been contracted for 18.7 million euros.
Over 300 million in the integral remodelling of Vicálvaro
The contract also includes the urban development and roads of the new intermodal area, establishing a circuit for access, lorry loading and unloading, access controls and parking for heavy and light vehicles. With this contract, Adif is making progress in the comprehensive remodelling of the Madrid-Vicálvaro terminal station, a project to which it will allocate over 300 million euros in order to respond to trends in freight terminal management.
In addition to this tender, Adif awarded the works for the new La Tenería station in Pinto, for 10.6 million euros, and the signalling works for the new maintenance base in Fuencarral, for eight million euros, which means a total award of 50 million euros in works for the Community of Madrid freight. This intermodal module will be prepared to handle 740-meter trains, with a handling capacity of 150,000 ITUs/year and under-roof storage of 2,500 Twenty-foot Equivalent Units