On Thursday, the Beskydy Rail Tunnel opens, eliminating a big bottleneck in freight traffic between the EU and Ukraine.

Thursday, May 24, 2018
On Thursday, the Beskydy Rail Tunnel opens, eliminating a big bottleneck in freight traffic between the EU and Ukraine.

The new 1.7 km, two track tunnel will allow for twice as many trains – 100 – to pass each day, at double current speeds. The old tunnel was built under a Carpathian mountain ridge in 1886, during the Austro-Hungarian empire. Today, it constitutes the only single track section in the 1,200 km rail corridor between Trieste and Lviv. With financing by Ukraine, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the European Investment Bank, the 100 million euro tunnel is one of Ukraine’s largest infrastructure projects since independence in 1991.

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