North-South railway corridor: Valcinet – Ocnita – Balti – Ungheni – Chisinau – Cainari will be rehabilitated. To carry out the works, the European Commission (EC) offers the country a grant worth 20 million euros, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) grants a loan of 23 million euros. The loan and grant…
The European Union, through the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), will allocate funds to Ukrzaliznytsia JSC to develop border crossings with the Republic of Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Hungary, Yevhen Lyashchenko, the chairman of the board of UZ, has announced. “Ukraine is actively working to integrate its railway infrastructure into the EU. We have…
The European Commission (EC) has offered EUR 65.9 million to the Central Transportation Hub (CPK) company for the construction of a high-speed railway line connecting Warsaw and Lodz in central Poland where the massive air, road and rail hub is to be built. “The EC has granted the Central Transportation Hub (CPK) company around PLN…
The European Commission announced this week that the next phase of Rail Baltica in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania would receive EUR 928 million from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). With this decision, the European Union is also supporting the modernization of air traffic management and the purchase of a new icebreaker as efforts related to…
The first flight by LOT Polish airlines’ dreamliner over the polar route took off from Tokyo to Warsaw on June 17. Owing to the Civil Aviation Authority’s decision to change part of the Air Operator Certificate (AOC), LOT Polish Airlines’ Dreamliners can fly over the North Pole, LOT’s spokesman Krzysztof Moczulski wrote on Twitter. By…
State Roads Administration (ASD) signed on June 13 a contract on construction of M3 road Chisinau – Comrat – Giugiulesti – Romanian border (Vulcanesti bypass), km 0+000 – km 8+580, with financial support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). This section, for the rehabilitation of which the EBRD will allocate over 20…
Work on pan-Baltic high-speed link Rail Baltica’s main line begins in earnest this year. Marko Kivila, acting head of the Riga-based joint venture RB Rail, said that the three Baltic States: “Have chosen different approaches to construction strategy,” which in part would reflect the different topography of the three countries. “If we look at what…