The plan includes transporting agricultural products by rail through Romania and Bulgaria to the ports of Thessaloniki and Alexandroupolis.
Greece has proposed using its ports on the Aegean Sea as a corridor for exporting grains from Ukraine. Local publication Kathimerini reported this on Wednesday, October 4.
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It is indicated that this proposal was made by Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis at an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Kiev on October 2, and that it did not come out of the blue, but reflected a plan that had already been discussed by government with it. EU and non-EU partner countries.
The plan includes transporting agricultural products by rail through Romania and Bulgaria to the ports of Thessaloniki and Alexandroupolis. At the same time, there is a problem with the limited capacity of the railway network in northern Greece.
At the same time, a green light for Ukrainian exports through Greece could be an impetus for the development and modernization of railways in northern Greece, especially on the line from Alexandroupolis to Ormenio, a station in Bulgarian border.
“Gerapetritis told his EU colleagues that Greece is ready to contribute to solving the problem, and focused on the “big consequences” of the collapse of the agreement with Russia, especially for the countries of the Global South,” wrote of the newspaper.
A day before it became known that Lithuania opened a corridor for grain from Ukraine. At the same time, the inspection of agricultural cargo will be transferred from the Polish border to the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda.
Source: korrespondent
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