The Southern Great Plain is the best-connected of Hungary's eastern regions, because the M5 runs straight through it. Szeged sits roughly 1,950 km from our Barcelona hub, with LTL groupage at 4-5 working days on two weekly departures, and freight reaches the whole Kecskemét-Szeged axis on expressway without leaving the network.
LTL groupage transit
4-5 days
Corridor departures
2×/week
via the Spain–Hungary corridor
Road distance from our Barcelona hub
~1950 km
Border crossing
Hegyeshalom
Postal codes covered
The M5 is the region's north-south spine, reaching Kecskemét — where the M44 joins it through a full cloverleaf interchange — and continuing to Szeged and the Röszke crossing into Serbia. From Szeged the M43 runs east to the Romanian border as 2x2 motorway, built in two stages: Szeged-Makó, 31,600 m, completed 20 April 2011, and Makó to the border, 23,125 m, completed 10 July 2015.
The M44 is the recent change, and it is a material one for Békéscsaba. The expressway was completed to 125 km on 15 April 2025 when the 32.2 km M5-Szentkirály section was handed over, connecting Békéscsaba to the network after sections opened in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024. Two caveats belong with that. The M44 is built as a 2x2 expressway without hard shoulders over its whole length, designed for 110 km/h. And it stops at Békéscsaba — the 43 km continuation to the Romanian border at Nagyszalonta is still in preparation with a design deadline of June 2028 — while at its western end the interchange works where it meets the M5 remain in construction with a planned completion of 28 February 2027.
Baja and the Danube side of the region are a different proposition. There is no expressway there at all: the M9 that would serve it, 60,000 m of 2x2 without hard shoulders running from road 51 and splitting near Jánoshalma, is in preparation with a design contract deadline of September 2027. Baja does host one of Hungary's three national public ports, whose operator describes it as an intermodal logistics centre at the intersection of road, water and rail with its own dedicated railway network — but freight for Baja arrives on main roads.
Szeged, Kecskemét, Békéscsaba, Baja, Hódmezővásárhely and Gyula cover the region. The Kecskemét-Szeged axis is reached entirely on the M5 and Békéscsaba on the M44 since April 2025; Baja and the Danube side are served on main roads.
Szeged
Kecskemét
Békéscsaba
Baja
Hódmezővásárhely
Gyula
The route into the Southern Great Plain enters Hungary at Hegyeshalom, runs the M1 east to the M0, takes the southern ring and then the M5 south — Kecskemét, Kiskunfélegyháza, Szeged and on to Röszke — with the M43 branching east at Szeged towards Makó and the Nagylak-Csanádpalota border and the M44 branching east at Kecskemét to Békéscsaba. Mercedes-Benz Manufacturing Hungary operates its vehicle plant at Kecskemét, built with EUR 800 million of Daimler's EUR 1.4 billion compact-car investment. At Szeged, the PSP Terminal in the Kiskundorozsma district — operated by Petrolsped, majority-owned by Waberer's International — was reported in operation from 7 May 2024, built for nearly HUF 1 billion, able to hold more than 1,200 TEU at once and taking craneable and non-craneable semi-trailers as well as containers. Road access to the Szeged Industrial Park was upgraded with the widening of main road 5 to 2x2, recorded complete in December 2024. Hungary's HGV driving ban under Government Decree 190/2008 applies throughout, and it is already inside the 4-5 working-day band.
Get a quote →The Mercedes-Benz plant at Kecskemét and its supplier base map to our automotive service, the region's agricultural and food-processing base to food and beverage and wine and beverages, and the Szeged industrial and logistics estate to industrial machinery. Construction materials, furniture and e-commerce restocking run across the region.
Szeged sits roughly 1,950 km from our Barcelona hub and LTL groupage delivers in 4-5 working days on two departures a week. Freight runs the M1 to the M0 southern ring and then the M5 south, staying on the expressway network the whole way.
Yes, since 15 April 2025, when the M44's final 32.2 km section from the M5 at Szentkirály was handed over and completed the expressway to 125 km. Two things are worth knowing: the M44 is built without hard shoulders over its whole length, and it stops at Békéscsaba — the continuation to the Romanian border is still in preparation.
On main roads. There is no expressway on the Danube side of the region — the M9 that would serve it is in preparation with a design deadline in September 2027 — so although Baja hosts one of Hungary's three national public ports, freight for it finishes on main roads. It prices as standard regional coverage.
Prefixes 55 through 69 — the Bács-Kiskun, Békés and Csongrád-Csanád ranges. Any postcode under those prefixes prices as standard Southern Great Plain coverage.
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