July 21 (SeeNews) - North Macedonia's national railway operator signed agreements worth 200 million euro ($204 million) for the rehabilitation of railway sections with a total length of 96 kilometres, the government said.
The investment foresees the overhaul of the Kumanovo - Beljakovce and Beljakovce - Kriva Palanka sections of European transport Corridor VIII and overhaul of the Nogaevci - Negotino section of Corridor X, the government said in a press release on Wednesday.
Representatives of Turkish construction company Gulermak, Austria's Strabag, as well as the Delegation of the European Union and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development were present at the signing ceremony, the government added, without providing details about the contracs.
The Corridor VIII sections which will be revamped will connect to a railway section from Kriva Palanka to the Bulgarian border that North Macedonia plans to build, thus linking Albania's Adriatic port of Durres to the Bulgarian Black Sea port of Varna.
Pan-European Corridor X runs from Austria's Salzburg in the north to Greece's Thessaloniki in the south.
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