Although efforts have been made to diminish it, the financial crisis in the Eurozone has deepened since EU ministers endorsed the European Commission’s proposal for a strategy for the Danube Region more than a year ago. The Danube Region includes some of both the richest and poorest territories in Europe and it is all the [...]

Greece: although it is a country strongly affected by the financial crisis and still faces negative effects in all economic sectors, this does not represent an impediment for the elaboration of strategies on railway projects aiming at increasing the transport share and the opportunities regarding traffic potential.   100% owned by the state, the railway company [...]

  “Steady growth can be expected for the world rail market until 2017. Middle East, Latin America, Russia and CIS are among the particularly strong growing regions. Railway industry growth in these regions compensates for the slowdown of rail investments in China, where however there is now a new focus on urban rail”, shows the [...]

In recent years, the governments’ agenda in Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus region, which define the Wider Black Sea Area, focused mainly on various programmes for railway infrastructure capacity development. However, setting land connections between the two continents is still challenging and barriers can only be removed through an adequate decision [...]

Modern regional and urban railway transport systems will be confronted with a significant proportion of demands such as commuter transport or other type of journeys. These services are efficient if they are the subject of transparent public obligations signed with public authorities: they ensure mobility, improved safety and environment criteria in densely populated areas. Commuter [...]

Increasing use of high speed lines means rail should be competitive over much greater distances. High Speed Rail could undertake some 176 billion more passenger kilometres by 2050, relative to 2005, outpacing the increase in aviation (some 67 billion passenger kilometres) for journeys below 1,000 km. Poor transport infrastructure is an impediment to the economy. [...]

TRACECA3  is an international programme aimed at strengthening transport communication in the regions of the Black Sea basin, South Caucasus and Central Asia. The programme builds on a Multilateral Agreement signed in 1998 among 12 countries and is actively supported by the European Commission through Technical Assistance projects. The overall objective of is to improve [...]

The development of an environmentally friendly, intelligent and safe transport requires investments for the development of the research and innovation sector, for increasing the competitiveness of industry and for meeting the mobility challenges imposed by society. From the development of railway technology for passenger and freight transport, including logistics and infrastructure to the implementation of [...]

New EU rules, set through the final vote of the European Parliament on July 3, on the recast of the First Railway Package, allow more competition on the European rail market. The new rules are expected to become effective by the end of the year and approach three major problems in the market. The first [...]

After 1990, the Republic of Moldova entered a strong economic decline which ended as late as 2000. Agriculture has the highest share in the economy. The main products are fruits, vegetables, wine and tobacco. The Republic of Moldova imports oil, coal and natural gas, mainly from Russia. The construction of Giurgiuleşti oil terminal, which is [...]