Ports to benefit from Bulgarian-Greek rail transport agreement

be drafted. The start of the project was the Memorandum of Understanding signed by the transport ministers of Bulgaria and Greece in September 2017, during an official visit by the government delegation from Bulgaria headed by Prime Minister Borissov. The project is of great strategic and economic importance. Improving rail links between the ports will improve cargo connections between the ports and the development of an established transport corridor. It aims to develop a sustainable dual track axis, an electrified railway corridor with a modern ERTMS rail traffic management system connecting the Bulgarian and Greek ports. The construction of the railway connection is part of the larger project for a multimodal cargo corridor connecting the Aegean and the Black Sea “Sea2Sea”. The joint declaration signed today also foresees the possibility for expanding the scope of the Memorandum of Understanding by increasing the intermodality of the project, including the further development of the Alexandroupolis-Burgas road connection. Source: Government of Bulgaria Copyright (C) PortSEurope. All Rights Reserved. 2018.