Том 2 - Тенденции и предизвикателства в развитието на ...

There are some missing sections in the land-based railway corridormainly in Albania, between the Albanian border and Kicevo inMacedonia, between Kumanovo and Deve Bair (border to Bulgaria) andbetween the Bulgaria border and Gyueshovo.Within the European and trans-continental framework Corridor VIIIwill play an important role for the transport communications amongSouthern Europe, Northern Africa, the Caspian Basin, Central Asia,Russia and Ukraine. It is a new alternative for transport links among theabove-mentioned regions, that also includes great possibilities for usingwater transport, thus making haulage expenditures smaller, as comparedto other routes based entirely on land transport. Its strategic perspectivelies in the linkage of significant sea-ports such as Varna, Bourgas, Poti,Batoumi, Novorossijsk, Ilichevsk and Odessa on the Black Sea, Dourresand Vlore on the Adriatic Sea, a linkage that facilitates the opportunitiesof servicing the markets of Central Asia, Russia and Ukraine, too.DANUBEBALTICRUSSIABALCK SEACENTRALEUROPEEnergy &TransportFigure 1. Gravitation power of Wider Black Sea Region for R.Macedonia and Central Europe countriesSource: Emerson M.(2008): The EU’s New Black Sea policy: Whatkind of regionalism is this?.CEPS 297/June 2008. pp.6.Transportation Conference (Helsinki, June 1997), bringing additional connectivityinto the Balkan region.333