On 5 July 2013 in Vienna, Austria, the signatories of the four-party joint venture Breitspur Planungsgesellschaft mbH (railways of Russia, Slovakia, Austria and Ukraine) took the next step in the project to build a rail freight corridor across Slovakia through to Vienna, linking Central Europe to Russia’s Pacific coast and emerging markets in Asia. The call for tender for the project’s technical and ecological assessments is to be launched shortly.

(Source: RZD)