ODESA. Aug 4 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine and Moldova have agreed to establish a working group to design and commission a railway section on the Berezyne (Ukraine)-Basarabeasca (Moldova) route.
According to Deputy Chairman of Odesa Regional Council Yuriy Dymchohlo, the agreement was achieved at a meeting on the issue of restoring the rail section on the route in Chisinau on August 2.
As reported, Ukraine and Moldova agreed to resume railway traffic from Odesa region to Moldova bypassing Transdniestria in October 2015. Restoring traffic on the Berezyne-Basarabeasca section will open a direct way from Moldova to the ports of Velyka Odesa.
It is planned within the project to organize traffic of at least six pairs of trains per day. In addition, it is planned near Berezyne to open an international rail checkpoint.
According to Ukrzaliznytsia, in 1999 due to lack of traffic and the poor condition of the track on the Berezyne-Basarabeasca some 20 kilometers of track in the territory of Ukraine (Odesa Railways) and almost 1.5 km in the territory of Moldova were dismantled.
