Zł.600 million new border crossings will benefit IT and construction

The construction of new border crossings and modernization of the existing ones will cost zł.600 million over the next two years. Projects including 12 new road, railway and river crossings on the Eastern border have already been submitted to the Interior Ministry with a request for financial aid from EU sources. "A lot of companies from different industries are counting on these investments," revealed a source close to the Ministry. An additional zł.800 million will be spent on securing the borders. Poland hopes to receive zł.1.8 billion for these projects from the Schengen Fund until 2005. Companies in the IT and construction sectors are expected to benefit most from the investment. The most expensive project is to be undertaken in the Mazury region and will cost zł.250 million, zł.75 million of which will be spent on construction of a Mazury canal. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 4) A.K.