The participating countries Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania have held negotiations in Varna, Bulgaria, on the Sea2Sea multimodal rail freight transport corridor between the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, and the Aegean Sea. The talks are aimed at reviving the project in Greece, which was temporarily postponed after an accident near Evangelismos. A central point is the construction of a railway line from Toxote to the port of Nea Karvali. In addition, Greece is planning to build a single-track rapid railway line from Thessaloniki to Nea Karvali via Kavala called Rail Egnatia East, and to extend other lines. The ports of the Sea2Sea project in Thessaloniki and Alexandroupoli on the Aegean Sea, Burgas and Varna on the Black Sea, and Ruse on the Danube are already connected to the railway network, but the quality of the infrastructure is in some areas poor. The port of Alexandroupoli is increasingly gaining geostrategic importance, as it has been partially leased to the US Army and will also handle Ukraine transport in the future. The Greek government has therefore stopped the originally planned privatisation.
