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Photo : Peter Kleva

Learn about the significance of the Second Track Divača-Koper railway line construction project, addressing freight demand, TEN-T corridors bottleneck, and Slovenia's transit positioning. Updates, financing, and key milestones outlined.

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Photo : Peter Kleva

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  1. SECONDTRACKDIVAČA – KOPER Photo: Peter Kleva

  2. The significance of the construction of the Second track Divača–Koper railway line • Rapidly growing demand for transportation of freight between Port of Koper and hinterland countries (more than 6% per year in last 10 years) • In 2018 therailway line beetwen Divača – Koper wassaturated • Second Track Project will eliminate an important bottleneck of the core Mediterranean and Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T corridors. • The Second Track is vital for positioning of Slovenia as a key European transit country as well as for increasing competitiveness of rail transport compared to environmentally and operationally costly road traffic.

  3. At theintersection of European transport corridors Baltic – Adriatic corridor Amber corridor Mediterraneancorridor KOPER Alpine – Western Balkan corridor

  4. Hinterlandmarkets Czech R. Containers, Cars, General cargo Germany Containers, Cars, • General cargo Austria: Absolute market leader - more than 7 M tonnes of various goods handled every year Poland Containers, Cars, General cargo Slovenia: Domesticport Slovakia: Container market leader Romania Containers BulgariaContainers Hungary: Container market leader + cars, electronics, agro/food/fodder Croatia,Bosnia& Herzegovina,Serbia Containers, Cars, General cargo

  5. Port of Koper – efficient combination of cost, time and energy savings KOPER 8.540 Nm HAMBURG ROTTERDAM ROTTERDAM 10.525 Nm • more than 2.000 Nmshortermaritimeroute – up to 7 daysshortertransit time bysea distance from SHANGHAI to HAMBURG 10.780 Nm SHANGHAI Suez Canal

  6. Key objectives of the project faster and moreeconomicaltransportalongthe Divača - Koper startof project July2018 27,1 kmnew line instead 44,3 km construction 2019 - 2026 gradient17,0 ‰ speed160 km/h reductionof time 50minutes increasingcapacity up to 230 trains (now 92) and 43 mio tons (now 14 mio tons) 1.200 toncargotrainswith 1 locomotive increasingtheshareofrailway transport 63%

  7. Descriptionoftheproject

  8. Descriptionoftheproject

  9. Indicative timeline

  10. Sourcesoffinancing

  11. KeyMilestonesoftheproject 1. March 2016: 2TDK company was established by the Government of Republic of Sloveniaandbuildingpermitwasissued. 2. July 2018: Act regulating the investment of the second railway track from Divača. 3. January 2019: Investment programme was adopted by the Government of the RepublicofSlovenia. 4. May 2019: The Concession Agreement between 2TDKand the Government of the Republic of Slovenia was signed. 5. May 2019: EIB BoardofDirectorsapproved a loan of up to 250 million euros to 2TDK. 6. May-September 2019: Greatinterestofcommercialbanksfor 167 millionloan to 2TDK. 7. Avgust 2019: ServiceLevelAgreementwith SŽ Infrastruktura signed

  12. Current state of the project - preparatory works in progress 1.Geological, geotechnical and hydrogeological surveys. 2. Archaeological surveys. 3. Executive design(in progress). 4.Access roads will be constructedbyJune 2020. 5. Construction of structures for bridging Glinščica Valleywill start in march 2020. 6. Constructionofmainstructureswill start in Q3 2020.

  13. Connecting Central Europe with the sea THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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