Intermodal Terminal

Kaunas intermodal terminal of four modes, the railway node, the air port, the river port, the sea port of Klaipeda (about 200 km away), Via Baltica, cross-section of two trans-European transport corridors, future Rail Baltica, industrial areas of Kaunas with infrastructure create a transport-industry-logistics cluster of huge potential, the activities of which will influence the rapid development of Kaunas City and the whole country.

Developing the multi-modal terminal (logistic centres) in Lithuania and its inclusion into the network of existing European logistics centers is of a very high importance. Therefore Kaunas is planning to create an Intermodal terminal-cluster seeking to effectively use the advantage of the region.

The city has a unique possibility to build the European gauge railway using the existing railway station, industrial districts, cross-section of two trans-European transport corridors, Kaunas air port, river port of Nemunas, and having united all that - to become the intermodal terminal of European significance - "the land port" uniting the economic areas of the East and the West.

The development of the intermodal transport will allow to re-allot the transport services and to avoid uneven development of certain separate transport means. It will also allow to better use the existing infrastructure and to put some efforts into its modernization. In 2003 a

European railway project "Rail Baltica" was finally adopted. The project concerns the railway route: Warsaw - Kaunas - Riga - Tallinn and it should be completed by 2016. The activities of Kaunas Intermodal Terminal (KIT) will include not just logistics, loading/unloading or storing, but it also includes the shuttle railway formation in the directions of West-East and South-North.