Facing the challenges of increasing demand for steel products, voestalpine steel producer decided to rise its production volumes and invest more than 5 mld. Euro to build a brand new steel production facility on the Black Sea cost (the project was codenamed Edelweiss). At the time of the study, the final location of the facility had not yet been determined. The proposed plant was expected to produce 5 million tonnes of steel per year.
BASF is the world's leading chemical company, headquartered in Ludwigshafen, Germany. TThe industrial sidings of the Ludwigshafen facility, comprising nearly 300 km of track, rank among the largest in Europe. The facility includes own marshalling yard with a double track hump, more than 20 classification sidings and enormous capacity of holding tracks. Each day, dozens of production halls have to be supplied with rail cars to deliver material and transport finished products. Some goods are also transported via the nearby KTL container terminal.