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Bulgaria, Turkey to increase number of trains between two countries to ease road traffic

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Bulgaria and Turkey have agreed to increase the number of intermodal trains per day, with trucks loaded on them, which will travel from one country into the other, announced the official transport minister Hristo Alexiev, before the competent parliamentary committee.

In 2022, 50,000 heavy-load trucks were transported to Turkey through the intermodal container terminal in Plovdiv alone. 

We want to increase their number and make them 150-200,000 per year. This will ease the heavy traffic on Bulgarian roads, the minister said.

Turkey and Bulgaria plan to increase the number of trains to 12 trains running daily between the two countries. 

Тhere is currently one train a day from Sofia to Istanbul.



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