Lithuania to complete works on Rail Baltica in 2015
Lithuania to complete works on Rail Baltica project in 2015, IAA PortNews journalist cites Stasis Gudvalis, Deputy General Director – Director of Directorate of freight traffic of JSC "Lithuanian Railways" as saying at VI Baltic Transport Forum in Saint-Petersburg.
According to him, the railway will run from the Ploshi border to Kaunas where a logistic center will be created. The center capable of handling 55,000 TEUs per year will cost $31 mln.
Besides, another logistic center will appear in Vilnius. It will be able to handle 100,000 TEUs per year.
Rail Baltica is the project on construction of standard gauge railway which is to link the Baltic states, Eastern and Western Europe. The European gauge railway will connect Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga, Kaunas, Vilnius and Warsaw with an extension to Berlin (then it can be extended to Venice). Besides, an undersea tunnel is supposed to span Tallinn and Helsinki or a railway ferry is to appear between the two cities. So, Rail Baltica can link Scandinavia and Western Europe.