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The signing ceremony in the Palace of the Rulers was attended by Prime Ministers of Lithuania and Poland Saulius Skvernelis and Mateusz Morawiecki.
“Poland is a strategic partner of Lithuania both in social and economic terms. So I am very happy about the future convenient connection for people to travel between Warsaw and Vilnius. Convenient and eco-friendly communication is the basis of the holiday travel of the city. people, cultural cooperation and the business community movement, ”says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis.
The train is in the second half of next year.
During the meeting, the LTG Link company LTG Link and the subsidiary PKP PKP Intercity signed a letter of intent, which established the commitment of the parties to connect the Lithuanian and Polish capitals through a comfortable train that meets the needs of modern travelers already in the second half of 2021. The journey from Vilnius to Warsaw or vice versa is scheduled to take about 8 hours.
“It will be like an introduction to the opening of the Rail Baltica line. At the beginning, we expect 35 thousand passengers per year, and we will reach the peak of travelers when the construction of the European road to Vilnius is completed. I have no doubt that then It will be the most popular option for people to travel between these countries. But the most important thing is that next year we will be able to travel to our neighbors by train, leaving the least trace of pollution compared to other modes of transport, “says Mantas Bartuška, General Director of LTG.
For charging: an inexpensive connection
During the event, a joint venture agreement was signed between LTG and PKP to establish a joint venture that will transport intermodal cargo. This agreement was signed by the Polish company PKP Cargo and LTG Cargo’s Polish subsidiary, LTG Cargo Polska. The joint venture is scheduled to go live in the first quarter of next year.
The joint venture will be mainly engaged in intermodal transport between Lithuania and Poland, as well as offering cargo transportation services to cargo terminals in Germany and northern Italy. In the development of services, great attention will be paid to the transport of semi-trailers and containers.
Intermodal transport, when combining various modes of transport, not only saves business logistics costs, but also reduces environmental pollution, congestion, noise, traffic accidents and other negative effects of road transport on the environment . Rail freight transport emits 3 times less CO2 than road transport and the number of traffic accidents is also reduced.
Around 24 million tonnes are transported between Lithuania and Poland each year. tons of cargo, of which – only 0.6 million. tons of railways, about 1.8 million tons cross national borders every year. tractors.
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