Bulgaria, Greece agree to build railway between Black, Aegean Sea coasts

  02 August 2016    Read: 1772
Bulgaria, Greece agree to build railway between Black, Aegean Sea coasts
Bulgaria and Greece agreed to build a fast railway line that will link the coasts of the Black and Aegean Sea, the prime ministers of the two neighboring countries said here on Monday.
The railway would connect the port cities of Alexandroupolis and Burgas, which are located respectively on the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said after a bilateral meeting.

The two countries would also work to develop new corridors for transporting natural gas, he added.

His Bulgarian counterpart Boyko Borissov said that linking the two seas would be a very good example of good neighborliness and would help increase trade turnover.

Bulgarian Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications Ivaylo Moskovski told reporters a working group with representatives of the maritime administrations and the railways of the two countries would meet in the first week of September.

After hashing out their plans, Moskovski and his Greek counterpart plan to go to Brussels to see if this project could receive funding from the European Union, he added.

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