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Bulgaria and Turkey give green light to new rail corridor to Asia

30 june 2025

Bulgaria and Turkey are again active in creating a new railway border crossing between the two countries. This is what BalkanEngineer.com learned from a press release after an official meeting between Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport and Communications Grozdan Karadzhov and Turkish Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloglu. The new rail link will run through the route Yambol - Elhovo - Lesovo, reaching the Turkish border and Edirne. The project is part of the two countries' efforts to improve cross-border logistics and will be proposed for consideration by the joint Bulgarian-Turkish working group.

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Deputy Prime Minister Grozdan Karadzhov confirmed that Bulgaria has taken concrete steps - analyses have been prepared on the state of the infrastructure, the capacity of the line and future traffic, as well as an implementation plan. The construction of a second border railway crossing is foreseen in the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Bulgaria and Turkey in 2023, which aims at a deeper cooperation in the railway sector. The project is expected to significantly ease the heavy traffic through the already existing Svilengrad-Kapekule corridor, one of the busiest land border crossings in Europe.

 

As early as March 2023. The National Railway Infrastructure Company (Bulgaria) has launched a pre-investment study on the cost-effectiveness and benefits of such a link, including the possibilities for restoring and extending the railway line between Yambol and Elhovo. The procedure was completed in September of the same year with the selection of a contractor and the signing of a contract worth 525 thousand leva, financed from the budget of NCWi.

 

According to initial estimates, the construction of the new line will require an investment of more than 118 million leva, and in the long term it will strengthen connectivity between Europe and Asia and provide a sustainable alternative to road traffic.

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