Ukraine’s railway connection will be expanded with EU countries, Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure, Volodymyr Omelyan announced, during the conference on transport and logistics cooperation possibilities for Lithuania and Ukraine, which was held at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Ukraine.
Currently, Lithuania is one of the main partners of Ukraine among the countries of the Baltic region. In the framework of a conference between Ukrzaliznytsya and Lithuanian Railway, a Letter of Intent on cooperation in the field of intermodal transport was signed.
“The positive trade dynamics with the European Union due to the current Free Trade Zone sets the policy goals of ensuring reliable and efficient transit traffic in the direction of the Baltic Sea – the Black Sea. We already have a successful experience of cooperation between Ukraine and Lithuania, the container train Viking and a passenger train of four capitals, which unites Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania. And I believe this is just the beginning. The Ministry of Infrastructure will continue to expand rail connection with the EU countries,” Omelyan said.
The Minister of Infrastructure mentioned that in order to increase the volume of freight traffic, it is necessary to combine efforts. “We have to think more widely. Two international transport corridors pass through the territory of Ukraine, the pan-European transport corridor and Europe-Caucasus-Asia transport corridor. We have two cargo trains “Viking” and “Zubr”, which pass through the territory of Belarus in the direction of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and further, using the ferry ports of the Baltic Sea to Scandinavia. We have every opportunity to continue the Baltic-Black Sea corridor to the Caspian Sea and further to Asia,” the minister concluded.
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