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Thursday, 28.03.2024, 16:47
In conference will discuss Rail Baltica project progress in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Project activities
are proceeding in line with Rail Baltica project schedule, in order to finalize
design of the railway by the year 2019 and construction process until year
2025. Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian officials will inform about achieved
results in 2016 and will highlight main goals for 2017.
In
Latvia environmental impact assessment process is concluded by determining
precise Rail Baltica route in Latvia. At the same time, phase one Rail Baltica
project implementation has been started. International jury decision on tender
of design of
Riga Railway Bridge and Riga Central Multimodal Public Transport Hub will be known in
advance. During the
conference information on tender results and upcoming activities will be
provided to the audience. In addition, there are ongoing works of the phase one
procurement process of construction of Rail Baltica railway station at
international airport Riga, and the related infrastructure and overpass of the
international airport Riga.
At the
conference RB Rail Chairperson of the
Management Board Baiba Rubesa will present key tasks for the following year
of a joint venture of the three Baltic States RB Rail and the vision on cooperation
with the national implementing authorities. Neils Balgalis, Chairman of the
Grupa93 will describe the key preconditions to the selected location of the
Rail Baltica line in Latvia, as Latvia is the first of the Baltic states where
Rail Baltica route is approved by the Cabinet of Ministers.
Rail
Baltic Estonia coordinator at the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and
Communication, Kristjan Kaunissaare will inform about the Rail Baltic route
planning process based on environmental impact assessment process and planed
land acquisition solutions in territory of Estonia.
Whereas Nerijus Kaučikas, Ministry of Transport and Communications of
Lithuania, Deputy director of development and international relations
department presentation will give a view on the number of issues, which
are of an importance for governmental institutions in Lithuania, as well as
will inform about the three main sections of the Rail Baltica project in
Lithuania, including north connection till border of Latvia, south connection
till border of Poland and missing links of Kaunas node.
Rail Baltica is one of the most strategic missing links to
the trans-European transport network (TEN-T). The Project envisages a
continuous rail link connecting three Baltic countries with Poland and rest of
Europe by crossing their territories as fast conventional double track 1435 mm
gauge electrified railway line with the maximum design speed of 240km/h on the
route from Tallinn through Pärnu-Riga-Panevezys-Kaunas to the Lithuanian-Polish
border.
Additional
information about the conference Agenda and speakers can be found here www.sam.gov.lv