This infrastructure is financed by the València Port Authority (PAV)
Adif is putting the finishing touches to the construction work on the new 750-metre-long sidings to boost freight traffic on the Zaragoza-Teruel-Sagunto line, a strategic infrastructure on the Cantabrian-Mediterranean corridor. The Port Authority of Valencia (PAV) is financing with 20.6 million euros these seven sidings located in Cariñena, Ferreruela, Teruel, La Puebla de Valverde, Barracas, Navajas and Estivella, to which must be added the one in Cella.
The actions being carried out on this railway line supported by the PAV are allowing an increase in freight traffic between Valenciaport and Aragon. Thus, if in 2017 the average number of weekly trains to the Port of Sagunto was five, in 2021 it will be 30 services, with a peak week of 44 weekly freight trains. These figures could reach 50-60 trains a week from Zaragoza once the works are completed.
Adif’s Deputy Director of Conventional Network Operations East, Fernando Ugena, the Government Subdelegate in Aragon, José Ramón Morro, and the Regional Minister of the Presidency of the Government of Aragon, Mayte Pérez, visited the works at the Teruel siding this weekend, where they were able to see how the old track is being replaced by a new one using gantries, the same special machinery used on the High Speed platforms.