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Friday, 26.04.2024, 22:32
Lithuania's goal: bridge Asia and Europe in terms of transport and logistics
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"The development of trans-European transport network is significant to Lithuania. Our ambition is to develop a Euro-Asian transport network of efficient corridors: integrate rail freight services with road, maritime, inland waterways and air services, as well as, perform simpler and shorter border control procedures," said the minister.
According to Sinkevicius, high quality of integrated multimodal infrastructure is an important contribution to the successful development of the country and its partners. One of the examples is train Saule, a strategic project of cooperation between Lithuania and Kazakhstan which has a real possibility to become a realization of the New Silk Road, connecting Europe and Asia, ambition.
In order to make a more efficient use of the possibilities that Lithuania has as a transit country, the Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Lithuania was one of the ASEM Transport Ministers' Meetings initiator and the first ASEM Transport Ministers' Meeting was held in Vilnius, in October 2009.
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