Transport sector, growing with the globalization, contributes significantly to economic and social development. Apart from these positive effects, transport sector is the major consumer of the unrenewable energy sources. In this regard, it is necessary to look at the development of the transport systems from the perspective of sustainability aiming to balance the imperatives of economic growth, social welfare and environmental protection. Sustainable transport system supports the development of logistics systems and logistics with creating new opportunities, supports the development of intermodal transport. Improving and promoting intermodal transport is the core of the European Commission's Common Transport Policy. The aim of the intermodal transport is to support the efficient, cost effective and sustainable « door to door » movement of goods, using two or more modes of transport, in an integrated transport chain . Intermodal transport is accepted as an integrated component of the global logistics system. Being critical nodes in this system, intermodal terminals are places where the goods are collected and consolidated, transferred to the other modes ( i.e. rail, sea, air ) and/or value added logistics activities undertaken and transferred to the distribution system. At this context, without terminals, transportation can not be intermodal. In recent years ,it is observed that terminals are growing and consolidated to meet the demands of the global economy and they are structured more and more to include logistics and value added services. These terminals are called as logistics centers, distriparks etc. The aim of this paper is to discuss the role of terminals in the progress of sustainable intermodal transport systems, review the recent challenges in intermodal terminals and evaluate the changes of Turkish transport and logistics system.