France could help Ukraine with rail track gauge changing projects

France will consider the possibility of expert and consulting assistance and will contribute to raising funds from the European Union for Ukraine’s obtaining technical assistance for implementing the project to change the gauge of railway track, Interfax reports. This was discussed in Kyiv during the sixth meeting of the Ukrainian-French working group on transport.
The Ukrainian side, in particular, expressed interest in drawing on the experience of specialists of the railway industry in France regarding the further development of railway infrastructure, building new rolling stock, including the use of a system for changing the track width for rolling stock. In addition, Ukraine reported on the active work on the development of combined/multimodal transportation in the direction of Europe-Asia using the transport infrastructure of Ukraine, in particular within the existing transport corridors defined by the TEN-T network.


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