Bochvarski: Soon we will be on the ground for the railway to Bulgaria

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The Minister of Transport and Communications Blagoj Bochvarski says that for the start of the activities for the continuation of the construction of the railway to Bulgaria, all the preparatory procedures are being done and that the realization will begin soon.

- We will soon be on the ground, all the preparatory procedures are being done and we will enter into implementation and with mechanization to inspect the construction works, Bochvarski said today, answering a journalist's question during his visit to Strumica.

Minister Bochvarski pointed out that the selected contractors for the first two of the three sections of the railway, Kumanovo-Beljakovce and Beljakoce-Kriva Palanka, are mobilizing their mechanization and expert teams to begin implementation.

- What is important and I would like to inform you is that already the companies that have been selected are mobilizing their mechanization and expert teams in order to start implementation. We announced that this autumn we will be on the ground together with you, the media and the citizens, at the beginning of the works on the largest infrastructure project in the railway infrastructure since the independence of the country until today - with an investment of over 200 million euros, to connect North Macedonia with Bulgaria. It is important because of Corridor 8, which is very important for the business sector, to help the companies tomorrow to have an alternative for the transport of heavy freight via railway, said Bochvarski.

At the end of July this year, JP MZ Infrastructure of the RSM signed an agreement with the Austrian "Strabak", which should complete the work for the reconstruction and completion of the first section, where there is no work on the ground since June 2020, as well as with the Turkish "Gülermak" for the full construction of the second section. For the third section, from Kriva Palanka to the border with Bulgaria, a tender for the selection of a contractor should be announced by the end of the year.

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