The Riga-Kaunas section of the European standard gauge railway Rail Baltica will be built first, Lithuanian Transport and Communications Minister Marius Skuodis has announced.
The Rail Baltica railway, which will connect Warsaw, Kaunas, Vilnius, Riga, Tallinn and Helsinki, will complete the sector’s integration into the European rail network, the Lithuanian minister said during the Transport Innovation Forum in Vilnius.
Meanwhile, Latvian Transport Minister Talis Linkaits pointed out that Rail Baltica should be built faster. (BNN/Business World Magazine)