Introduction

Rail Cargo Terminal – BILK Ltd. (Budapest Intermodal Logistics Centre) is an important member of Hungarian and regional network of logistic service centers and combiterminals.

Good location, available capacity, realized innovative technologies on terminal, and role as environmental diversion reducer for capital city provide the important state for terminal. Rail Cargo Terminal – BILK Ltd. can work as a HUB between West - and East-Europe in combinated transport flows because of the huge relationships.

The terminal has the capacity to provide complex services covering the complete inland process of combined transport. With block trains running regularly, it has direct connection with the significant harbors and terminals of Europe. Due to the role played by the Kombiterminál in the region, the extension of these routes can be expected towards the states of the CIS and South-Eastern Europe, thus creating the role of BILK of an eastern-western turning point.

The complex and high level services are provided with the available modern equipment: reachstackers and gantry cranes operating at the terminals are capable to grasp and load any swap-bodies, transporting containers or semi-trailers used in combined transport. The seven 750 meter long rail tracks - three of them bulit int he last year - are served two gantry cranes and four reachstackers. Due to the available up-to-date technology, the terminal has the capacity to handle an annual traffic of 220.000 TEU containers.

The owner of Rail Cargo Terminal – BILK Ltd. is Rail Cargo Terminal - Praha s.r.o.