Construction of an intermodal terminal within the Logistics Center Pirot will contribute to cargo mobility, more efficient use of means of transport, quality of logistics and ancillary services, increase of activities and competitiveness of the Republic of Serbia in transit flows of goods, with better use of domestic resources and reduction of freight transport costs. And with reducing bad impact to the environment and with the use of rail transport as a cheaper and more friendly regarding the environment.
The projected capacity of the Logistics Center Pirot, according to the feasibility study, is 12,000 TEU per year. Investments together with the amount of technical contingents amount to about € 12.8 million and this project, according to the feasibility study, will create about 4,200 jobs. Phased construction of the terminal is planned, in the first phase with three railway tracks: 304m, 304m and 548m and a plateau, while in the second phase it is planned to extend the tracks to 650-680m.
The Project Logistics Center Pirot, in addition to the Intermodal Terminal on an area of 3.7 ha, envisages infrastructural equipping of 38 ha of land for new warehouses, factories and other business facilities, construction of 3.2 km of roads and other necessary business and industrial infrastructure.