Terminal in Dragoman to be commissioned on July 1

“The terminal for combined transport (Ro-La) at the railway station of Dragoman is expected to be commissioned on July 1,” Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, Alexander Tsvetkov, announced on BNT. He explained that the key issue for launching this project was not the infrastructure, which has already been completed, but to attract clients – in fact the Turkish heavy-duty trucks passing through Bulgaria in transit. Contracts with Turkish transport companies for the use of this service have already been signed. The Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) also rents specialised waggons for such purposes.

Minister Tsvetkov predicted that there will be interest in the forthcoming privatisation of BDZ’s cargo transportation service since Bulgaria has a very strategic geographic location. “A tunnel under the Bosphorus is to be commissioned and for the first time there will be a railway connection between Europe and Asia. A large amount of cargo from the Middle East will be passing through Bulgaria. This will be, in fact, the railway route between Europe and Asia,” Tsvetkov explained. According to him, all investors looking forward to the future will be very interested. But the assets of BDZ’s cargo and passenger services should be divided first of all. This is expected to happen within a month or two.

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