07.01.2019
Artikel Nummer: 25831
Balkan rail upgrade progressing
The modernisation of FYR Macedonia’s railway infrastructure will be able to make more progress. The EU has signed a grant agreement for a further EUR 68.6 million with Macedonian railway. The money will be used to co-finance the construction of 34 km of the rail network from Beljakovce to Kriva Palanka, the second phase of the railway corridor VIII project.
Once completed, the corridor will link the country with Albania in the west and Bulgaria in the east. The new grants follows on from sovereign loans provided by the EBRD. The first phase of the project – the rehabilitation of a 31 km rail section between Kumanovo and Beljakovce – is currently being implemented. (ben)