Representatives of railway companies attended the Western Balkans Railway Summit held on 13th September 2021.
PUBLISHED: 14.09.2021.
The delegation from the Ministry of Capital Investments and the executive directors of the Railway Transport of Montenegro, the Railway Infrastructure of Montenegro, and AD Montecargo attended the Western Balkans Railway Summit held on 13th September 2021 in Belgrade.
The summit was organised by the Permanent Secretariat of the Transport Community, the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), under the auspices of the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure of Serbia. This summit aims to enhance regional and European transport policy, as well as to ensure that transport policy continues to contribute to a safer, more efficient, interoperable, digitalised, sustainable, and green development of the railway transport system.
In addition to the transport ministers of the Western Balkan countries and neighbouring states, representatives of the European Commission and professionals from the railway transport sector participated, discussing the improvement of regional and European transport policy and contributing to the construction of digitalised and sustainable railway transport systems in the region.
Priorities were established, including the re-establishment of the train network to improve connectivity in the region and the EU, enhancing the digitalisation process of railway systems in the area of data exchange for cross-border passenger and freight transport, improving the safety of level crossings, as well as opening the railway market.
The infrastructure and transport ministers of the Western Balkan countries signed the declaration “Commitment to Railways”, and the summit was organised to coincide with the arrival of the train “Connecting Europe Express”. Designed as part of the European Year of Rail, this train, which will travel through 26 European countries, arrived in Belgrade on 12th September, from where it will continue its journey to Skopje and beyond.
More information about this event can be found here.