site.btaBulgaria, Turkiye to Cut Train Waits at Border Crossings

Bulgaria and Turkiye are working to reduce times for trains transiting at border crossings. This transpired here on Thursday at a meeting between Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister Hristo Alexiev and Turkish State Railways Director General  Hasan Pezuk, said the Ministry. 

The two sides rallied behind the idea that increasing commercial exchange will boost the economies of Bulgaria and Turkiye.

In talks with the Turkish delegation Deputy Transport Minister Krassimir Papoukchiiski said intermodal trains should be incentivized which will increase returns on delivery times. He urged for speeding activities under the project for cross-border cooperation and the East-West transport corridor.

"Currently the railway administrations of Bulgaria and Turkiye are working to increase trains transiting border crossings to 24 in a day,” said Papoukchiiski.

The Deputy Minister said that the new railway border crossing between Bulgaria and Turkiye will meet the demands of the market and will ease traffic at the existing border crossing at Svilengrad-Kapikule. He said that Bulgaria works actively to upgrade the railway infrastructure from the border with Serbia, via Sofia and Plovdiv, to the border with Turkiye.