site.btaBulgaria, Poland Call for European Commission to Expand Two European Transport Corridors

The Minister of Transport and Communications Nikolay Sabev stated that Bulgaria supports the policy of expanding the European Transport Corridors, during a regional congress of the Three Seas Initiative in the city of Lublin, Poland, on Wednesday. Sabev said that Bulgaria and Poland are already working in that direction.

“Over the last few days, I visited border check points on our northern and southern borders, and I can say just one thing: there is no transport interconnection between us,” Sabev said. He blamed this situation for the low flow capacity.

The Minister shared that Bulgaria and its neighbour to the north Romania are actively discussing the construction of five new bridges over the Danube River.

Sabev and the Polish Minister of Infrastructure Andrzej Adamczyk signed a Joint Statement on Cooperation in expanding the Baltic Sea - Black Sea - Aegean Sea corridor and the corridors spanning the Western Balkans. In their document the two ministers are calling for the European Commission to include the entire Sofia-Skopje-Durres route to the Western Balkans corridor and to expand the multi-modal network Baltic Sea - Black Sea - Aegean Sea corridor toward the Polish Lithuanian border along the Lublin-Siedlce-Bialystok-Elk axis.