The Infrastructure Ministry plans to start laying European gauge track in Ukraine next year

The Infrastructure Ministry plans to start laying European gauge track in Ukraine next year, Krikliy told Interfax-Ukraine. The priorities are two sections of Ukrzaliznytsia’s track to the Polish border. Construction of 80 km from Lviv west to the border crossing at Mostyska, would create a direct Lviv-EU link capable of generating traffic of 600,000 passengers a year, the railway calculates. Further north, construction of a similar 65 km Euro-gauge line west from Kovel to the Polish border would allow the city to become a major hub for Chinese container traffic bound for the EU. Five rail lines converge on Kovel, a Volyn Oblast city.