Strategic Alliance Between Yana Terminal and BDZ EAD

31 August 2010

Representatives of Ecologistics and Ecometal Engineering had an official meeting with a representative group of the BDZ Company (The Bulgarian State Railway Operator) on August 30, 2010. The BDZ team was led by Mr. Lyubomir Iliev, commercial director of the organization.

Cooperation between the companies in several directions was discussed at the meeting. The most important issues were intermodal container trains from Thessaloniki through Yana Terminal to Moscow; from port of Constanta and Arad in Romania to Yana and the line Turkey - Yana (with cross-docking for Western Europe). It is expected that most freights from Turkey will be transferred by train as there is a shortage of over 100,000 permits for Turkish trucks this year.

Strategic alliance for attracting train freights of shoes in all directions was negotiated between Yana Terminal and BDZ. The BDZ commercial director expressed his opinion that the collaboration between the companies has great potential.

Moreover, the representatives from BDZ confirmed that Ecometal Engineering is the largest customer of the Sofia - Skopje train line. All the participants in the meeting expressed their wish that working on a rail link Sofia - Skopje will start soon, as now trains transit Serbia to reach FYRO Macedonia.