Moldova and Romania have agreed to liberalize freight traffic, repair old and build new bridges over the Prut River.
This was reported by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development of Moldova, according to a number of protocol documents, signed at June 16-17 meetings of the Moldovan-Romanian commission for motor transport and the Moldovan-Romanian working group for road infrastructure. Thus, at a meeting of the joint commission for international motor transport a protocol was signed, in which the decisions adopted during the discussions were fixed. They provide for: liberalization of freight traffic with "third countries" permits from August 1, 2022; creation of a permanent working group to establish the order and conditions of liberalization of passenger traffic by regular flights to make proposals to the Joint Road Commission to introduce liberalization from January 1, 2023; a moratorium on opening new regular flights between the two countries by the end of 2022; 500 permits for Moldovan carriers for non-regular non-liberalized transit services on the territory of Moldova and Ukraine in 2022. At the same time, within the working group in the field of road infrastructure, the sides identified a number of actions that envisage: creation of a joint Moldovan-Romanian commission to implement the Agreement on construction of the Ungheni-Ungheni bridge; initiation of negotiations on the Agreement on reconstruction/rehabilitation of road border bridges over the Prut River near Cahul-Oancea and Sculeni-Sculeni settlements, and construction of a new bridge at the Leuseni-Albita border; further cooperation on harmonization of the regulatory framework in the area of road infrastructure. An official delegation of the Romanian Transport and Infrastructure Ministry paid a two-day visit to Chisinau at the end of the last week. //20.06.2022 - InfoMarket.
