G. Karagiannis: The government gives the highest priority to railway projects

“Railway projects are of the highest priority for us,” said the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Giorgos Karagiannis, visiting construction sites for the construction and upgrading of the railway network in Thessaloniki at noon.

The deputy minister pointed out that in the last three years the government has given and is giving “a very high priority” to complete “all these railway projects, mainly in Northern Greece, which our country needs”.

O. Karagiannis visited the construction site for upgrading the Thessaloniki – Idomeni railway line, which started about three months ago and will be completed in thirty-six months.

“I wanted to see how the work is progressing from TX1 to Idomeni, to the two points” Karagiannis said and added: it is a 71.5 kilometer project that will ensure greater comfort, greater safety, electrification, signaling, so that we can increase first the freight movement of the trains and secondly to increase the transport part – which is very low, in terms of our northern neighbors and more broadly the eastern part of Europe – to upgrade it, so that routes from Idomeni beyond the current freight project and passenger movements”.

Mr. Karagiannis then went to the construction site of two railway bridges on the Galliko River, on the Thessaloniki-Florina line, and inspected the work.

“We had to intervene in this part, one bridge is already ready and we estimate that by the end of the year we will have completed the second bridge as well, so that the movement to Florina will be much safer, much more comfortable and much faster ” said Mr. Karagiannis and continued:

“Here we have removed two bridges that are fifty, sixty years old, soon we will have two modern bridges on this stretch and we are moving forward with our design.”

The deputy minister also mentioned that the project for the railway connection of the port of Thessaloniki is heading to the second phase of the tender and it is estimated that by the end of the year or the beginning of the next, there will be temporary contractors, while the Thessaloniki-Toxotes and Alexandroupolis projects are also progressing – Ormenius.

“The mandate of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport is that the projects in Thessaloniki are the first priority of our ministry,” said Mr. Karagiannis.

SOURCE: APE-ME

Source: Capital

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