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Transport Minister Lucian Bode welcomed the US initiative to support the construction of a highway and railway between Romania and Poland. Rail-2-Sea and Via Carpatia will receive significant support for infrastructure development, the minister said, quoted by Mediafax.
The Three Seas Initiative, a political platform of the member states of the European Union, includes 12 countries along a north-south axis, from the Baltic Sea to the Adriatic Sea and the Black Sea. The objectives of the project are the economic development of Central and Eastern Europe through the connectivity of infrastructure in three main areas: transport, energy and digitization.
Two major projects are heading to Romania. This is Rail-2-Sea, which aims to build a double-decker railway line between the port of Gdansk and the port of Constanta. The main objective of this project is the modernization of the railway corridors both for commercial use and for the rapid transport of military forces and equipment in the Romanian territory, with a total length of 3663 km, between the Port of Gdansk and the Port of Constanța that It will pass through four states: the Slovak Republic, Hungary and Romania.
The second project is called Via Carpatia and its main objective is the creation of a transport corridor from northern Europe to the south, through Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece, as a new connection of highway between north and south. southern Europe, integrating the transport system of the participating states.
„I welcome the initiative of the United States of America, our strategic partner, which, through the voice of its ambassador in Bucharest, expressed its desire to support Romania in economic and energy development and now in road and rail infrastructure. . Our efforts and seriousness are beginning to bear fruit. The two major projects Rail-2-Sea and Via Carpathia will receive significant support for the development of the infrastructure linking Constanta, from the Black Sea, to Gdansk, from the Baltic Sea. These infrastructure projects will be a real benefit to the economies of the partner states, but also to the economies of the region. Both projects, both Rail-2-Sea and Via Carpatia, involve raising private funds. In this context, the announcement of the US administration can only incentivize investment funds to support these projects, ”said Bode.
The announcement about the two projects was made on Friday by the United States Ambassador to Romania, Adrian Zuckerman, during the signing ceremony of the Intergovernmental Agreement between Romania and the United States, of the Department of Energy.
Editing: Monica Bonea
