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then, expansion plus the TORY-24 program have permitted much shorter customs clearance and pro- cedures on the Polish-Byelorussian frontier. Traffic at the border crossing is meanwhile flowing without interruption. By 2025, comprehensive infrastructural modernization will quadruple the capacity of this, Eu- rope’s largest dry port. This will top forecasts from the Chinese side for the next 20 years. In addition, an agreement has been signed for opening a border crossing point at Czeremcha-Wysokolitowsk, around 65 kilometres from Malaszewicze. This opens up a diversionary route for freight trains, leading prob- lem-free along the E20 rail route to Berlin. By 2023, rail infrastructure in the vicinity of eight border cross- ing points on the Eastern frontier will have been upgraded. Polish Railways – PKP PLK – will invest around 117 million euros in modernizing frontier sta- tions. In addition, measures to boost capacity inside Poland on the route to Berlin will form part of the national rail program. By 2023, PKP PLK aims to fa- cilitate transit of 750-metre trains at speeds of up to 100 kilometres per hour along this route. Looking at the next four years, as PKP Group we are therefore in a position to guarantee high capacity in the Polish section of the North Sea-Baltic traffic corridor.
HAMBURG AND CHINA ■
Miroslaw Antonowicz
Slawkow Euroterminal handles containers from all over the world
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