To promote trade with Ukraine, Austria has unveiled a feasibility study for the construction of 400 km of wide gauge track from Vienna to Ukraine’s border. The widened track would largely pass through Slovakia. It would cost 6.5 billion euros and would take 10 years of work, from 2023 to 2033. In a major bet on Ukraine’s future growth, the track could carry 20,000 freight trains with 20 million tons of cargo a year. Austria’s Transport Minister Joerg Leichtfried said Friday at presentation of the study, prepared by Deloitte: “I want Austria to become a connecting point for logistics in Europe.”
Austria may build 400 km of wide gauge track to Ukraine’s border
