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