Establishing the freight village Frankfurt (Oder) the city built the terminal for combined traffic (CT) on the ground of the former shunting yard. Operating was started on 6 April 2005. Additional railway sidings are available for rent next to the CT terminal. To establish further value added services on site a rail-based logistics centre will be developed directly to the North of the CT terminal.

The expansion of the rail transport centre serves the following purposes

• strengthening the Frankfurt (Oder)/Eisenhüttenstadt regional growth centre, in particular in the industrial expertise field, ‘logistics’
• creation of new jobs
• ensuring efficient logistics for regional producers and logistics firms
• efficient procurement and distribution for optimisation of the transport chain of international companies
• Green Logistics:
  • decreasing lorry traffic in long-distance transport by shifting from road freight transport to rail transport
  • decreasing CO2 emission during transport

Potential catchment areas of the rail transport centre

• classic catchment area – customers with outbound/inbound shipments by road transport in a 150 km radius, in particular East Brandenburg and Western Poland
• expanded catchment area 1 – clustering function of the rail transport centre in cross-border traffic (rail – rail) for Polish business locations
• expanded catchment area 2 – clustering function of the rail transport centre from/to Eastern Europe in in pre-carriage/on-carriage