Restoration of Poland-Ukraine waterway to be analysed

An international research consortium will analyze the project of restoration of waterway between the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea. The investment will be financed with EU funds and valued at roughly €500,000. The contract to conduct a necessary expertise was signed in Minsk by the leader of the consortium, Poland’s Marine Institute in Gdańsk and Belarus’s construction company Dniepro-Bug Waterway, the press reported. The restoration of E40 waterway between Gdańsk and Ukraine’s city of Cherson is to be researched regarding economic, technical, ecological, financial and legal aspects of the investment. The conclusions are to be provided through 2015. The investment will improve the trade between Poland, Belarus and Ukraine nad the shipping will be ecological.