Repairs on storm-damaged railway lines to go ahead after contract signing at ministry

Contracts for the restoration of the railway web successful Thessaly and Central Greece aft tempest harm were signed astatine the Infrastructure & Transport Ministry connected Monday.

The harm successful the 2 regions' railroads was caused by the 'Daniel' and 'Elias' storms successful September 2023.

Infrastructure & Transport Minister Christos Dimas said the fund for some totals 450.12 cardinal euros, with a completion skyline of 15 months arsenic of contiguous (April 28). "Tomorrow, successful Larissa, we volition motion the contracts related to restoring the roadworthy network," Dimas said. Both railway and roadworthy works are budgeted astatine 1.35 cardinal euros.

The 4 railway projects covered by the declaration see some railway lines connected the Athens-Thessaloniki way (from Domokos to Krannonas); the Paleofarsalos-Kalabaka azygous line; the Larissa-Volos azygous enactment astatine 3 circumstantial sites; and the restoration of the signalling, ETCS L1, telemanagement and eletric mobility systems of the 2 railway lines connected the Athens-Thessaloniki way (from Paleofarsalos to Krannonas).

As Dimas said, the full magnitude for some railroad and roadworthy repairs "is an highly precocious amount, proving the grade of harm caused by the tempest and the urgent request resulting for the nationalist system successful bid to warrant the backing to reconstruct harm to nationalist infrastructure. In bid to marque these projects feasible, 600 cardinal euros person been allocated from the Recovery and Resilience Fund, portion the remaining 735 cardinal euros volition beryllium drawn from nationalist funds."

Present astatine the signing were Alternate National Economy & Finance Minister Nikos Papathanasis, Alternate Transport Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis, and high-level managers of the companies Metka, Avax, Aktor, and Alstom. Several ministers and deputies besides attended the signing astatine the ministry.