Location
In the Cross Point of 3 (out of 10) Paneuropean Transport Corridors
- Corridor №4 - Berlin - Budapest- Vidin- Sofia- Thessaloniki (Istanbul);
- Corridor №8 - Duras - Skopie - Sofia - Burgas - Varna ;
- Corridor №10 - Salzburg - Belgrade- Sofia - Plovdiv - Istanbul
Cross Point of Four World Transport Directions
- Diagonal highway of three continents North West – South East (London-Budapest-Sofia-Istanbul-Calcutta-Melbourne);
- The shortest and the most comfortable road from West Europe to the Near East and Middle East;
- The meridian Euro-African highway (Helsinki, Moscow, Sofia, Thessaloniki, Cairo, Cape Town);
- Diagonal Euro-African highway (Tunisia-Duras-Sofia-Bucharest-Odessa-Omsk)
- Formation of the new transport corridor near the 40th parallel from the Caspian Sea through the Black Sea to the Adriatic Sea (Potti- Varna-Sofia-Skopie-Duras).
Multimodal Corridors in Bulgaria and
Distances to Important Hubs
| From the railway terminal Kremikovtsi/Yana to the main railway terminals in relation | Road transport (length in km) | Transit time (w/o interrupting, in hours) |
|---|---|---|
| Thessaloniki | 290 | 5.00 |
| Athens | 790 | 11.30 |
| Skopje Duras |
340 510 |
4.00 8.45 |
| Belgrade Zagreb Ljubljana |
400 790 930 |
5.30 10.00 12.00 |
| Budapest | 760 | 10.30 |
| Vienna | 1000 | 13.00 |
| Bucharest Odessa |
360 950 |
6.00 15.30 |
| Istanbul | 640 | 6.30 |
| Ankara Izmir |
970 770 |
12.00 13.00 |
