The first phase of the expansion and refurbishment works at the Valencia-Fuente de San Luis intermodal terminal has been successfully completed and is currently undergoing testing ahead of its commissioning later this year. As Valencia’s main logistics terminal, it forms part of the Trans-European Transport Network and is a key logistics hub for the interconnection, interoperability and intermodality of transport services along the Mediterranean Corridor.
This intermodal terminal will serve as a major freight station for the Valencia area and as a container terminal to support the Port of Valencia. It has the capacity to handle 150,000 Intermodal Transport Units (ITUs) and to manage up to 2,600 freight trains per year.
TYPSA, commissioned by Adif, was responsible for project management, technical assistance and health and safety coordination for the works, which took three years to complete.
The works comprise a logistics loading/unloading bay with four mixed-gauge tracks, each with a usable length of 750 metres, enabling operations to be carried out using a gantry crane, and a bay with four mixed-gauge tracks for parking electrified locomotives.
The railway superstructure starts at track 40 of the old terminal and consists of UIC54 rails laid on concrete sleepers for mixed gauge, and includes the installation of 11 mixed-gauge turnouts with a radius of 190 m. The project also includes the electrification of the access tracks, sidings and the terminal sections of the loading and unloading tracks.
The work carried out has also included fibreglass-reinforced concrete slabs for container storage, 750 m long and 24.20 m wide in total, as well as the running tracks for gantry cranes supported by reinforced concrete beams installed on piles.
The terminal comprises a single-storey administration building covering 275 m², and a new network of roads and access routes to the terminal, with a total length of 4 km, to link the various functional areas to the external road network, as well as the mechanical, electrical and communications installations required for the terminal’s operation and those associated with the infrastructure works.
