Constanţa Port to Mihail Kogălniceanu Airport railway connection project

Mihail Kogălniceanu Airport will be connected by a railway to Constanţa Port, clubferoviar.ro website announces, citing a press release issued by the airport management and presented by Constanţa TV.

The project envisages the creation of a dual railway link, which will contribute to the creation of a sustainable multimodal airport - railway - urban mobility - port hub, which will facilitate the efficiency of the flows of goods coming/departing to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, as well as increasing internal interoperability and external from/to Constanţa Port.

The dual rail connectivity solution proposed at Mihail Kogălniceanu Constanţa International Airport is approximately 25 kilometers long, it consists of a simple electrified railway, which consists of a civil-commercial main branch 11.2 kilometers long, a branch commercial-military in length of 11.8 kilometers and a connection of 1.2 kilometers.

Thus, the municipality of Constanţa will have an airport connected to the primary railway network (part of the TEN-T network), civil access to the Mihail Kogălniceanu Constanţa International Airport being facilitated, and cargo transport and non-commercial activities carried out on the military side made more efficient. The proposed project will contribute to increasing the passenger transit capacity, urban mobility, respectively the transport of goods and military actions, ensuring complementarity and synergy with the railway, road and port infrastructure projects under development at the Port of Constanţa.

Currently, the only airport in Romania that benefits from a railway connection is Henri Coandă, and similar projects are proposed for Traian Vuia Airport in Timişoara and for Braşov Airport (Ghimbav).