Traffic on the freight railway service between Athens and Thessaloniki has doubled since it started in December, with the latest data from rail service operator Trainose showing a 100% increase in freight, and now the company is planning to schedule more services on the route.
The target is to increase the number of services from 1 per day to 5, as demand is rising constantly. Just previous Thursday Trainose signed an agreement with Procter & Gamble for the shipping of the multinational consumer goods company's products from Athens to major retail stores inf Thessaloniki.
The railway line between Athens and Thessaloniki transports the equivalent of 30 trucks of cargo each way every day. Market estimates put the road traffic between the 2 cities at 600 trucks per day, said Trainose officials.
Trainose had wanted to boost its cargo traffic for years, having been stuck at 3% of total traffic across the country. That has now grown to almost 10%.