400 M Euro To Be Invested In Burgas & Varna Airports

The perspective is through the European funds and the functional programs to succeed to develop completely the railway and road infrastructure, and through corridor number 7 favorable conditions for sailing and development of the passenger transportation to be secured.This said the minister of transport Peter Mutafchiev to the participants in the Fifth world meeting of the Bulgarian media, informed BTA, cited by news.bg.Among the priority projects pointed out by minister Mutafchiev, are the intermodal terminals in Burgas, Varna, Russe, Sofia and Plovdiv, the development of the infrastructure of the airports and the railway sections, which will be reconstructed for a speed of 160km/h.According to the minister the number of the passengers using the airports has doubled in 2008.394 million euro are to be invested in Burgas and Varna airports. For the modernization of the harbors we use all possible financial schemes, including funding from the state budget and public-private partnership, claimed the minister. He added that the crisis was earliest felt by the transport sector.We have to be ready in order to be able to meet the development of the economy after the crisis, said Peter Mutafchiev.