Ukraine and Lithuania agreed yesterday to promote “a single railway route between the Black Sea and Baltic regions.” Starting in September, a regular, dedicated freight train it to carry containers and semi-trailers on the 1.5-day trip between Odesa and Klaipeda, Ukraine’s Infrastructure Ministry reports on Facebook. After a meeting in Klaipeda, the infrastructure minister of both countries said of the 1,500 km route between the two ports: “The agreement has the potential to make the Klaipeda port in Lithuania the northern gate of Ukraine to exit to Scandinavia, at the same time Odesa – the southern sea gate of Lithuania to the Black Sea region.”