During a meeting with the European Commissioner for Mobility and Transport, Violeta Bulc, Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure, Volodymyr Omelyan, said that his country plans to modernise and electrify the railway links to Poland and Hungary.
The projects will be carried out within the Investment Action Plan, the most important strategy for transport modernisation across the country. Among the projects to be implemented under the Plan, “it is planned the electrification and modernization of rail tracks at the border of Poland and Hungary,” the minister said.
Within the framework of the working visit to Ljubljana, Omelyan had bilateral meetings with Gavin Dunnett, the representative of the EIB and Günter H. Oettinger, the European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources. The sides discussed the progress of Ukraine’s European integration in the infrastructure sphere, the expansion of direct connection between Ukraine and the EU and realization of transport projects, which are supported by the European partners, in particular the EIB. The bank is supporting road, maritime and railway projects in Ukraine.
Currently, the Ministry of Infrastructure is working on the improvement of the transport links between Ukraine and the EU in order to facilitate trade, investments, job creation and sustainable economic growth. In November 2017, the High-Level Understanding between Ukraine and the EU on the extension of indicative maps of the Core Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) to Ukraine was signed.
In the long-term period, Ukraine sees as priority projects the electrification of the railway line to the Belarus border and the construction of high-speed railway connection in direction to EU from Lviv-Kyiv-Odessa, the minister said. For this project, Italferr will develop a feasibility study which will provide the necessary information on the development of high-speed rail services in the country.
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