USAID is improving border crossing points with Ukraine to alleviate international transport logistics
Фото: facebook.com/ERAUkraine
The USAID project Economic Support to Ukraine is working on improving Ukraine's border crossing points with Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary.
Rubryka informs about this with a link to the USAID Facebook page.
What is the problem?
Due to the full-scale invasion of Russia, international transportation logistics were significantly affected. Airports are closed, and ports are being shelled. Therefore, land corridors took on a significant load.
However, the border crossing points were not ready for such a volume of transportation and currently require immediate modernization. This is exactly what the new USAID project is aimed at.
What is the solution?
The USAID project Economic Support of Ukraine (USAID Project) delivered three platform scales and 312 road flood barriers. They installed 452 road signs at four border crossing points (BCPs) with Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary.
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How does it work?
The delivered equipment is part of measures for the rapid modernization of border crossing points of Ukraine, aimed at:
- increasing operational efficiency,
- improvement of cargo transportation logistics,
- increase in trade volumes,
- grain export,
- traffic flows in general.
Photo: facebook.com/ERAUkraine
Photo: facebook.com/ERAUkraine
Photo: facebook.com/ERAUkraine
Shortly, the USAID Project will also install 30 containers for separate garbage collection on the territory of one of the BCPs to increase environmental responsibility and restore resources per established European practices.
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In 2023-2026, within the framework of the Project Economic Support of Ukraine (USAID Project), USAID will allocate $115 million to support the State Agency for Reconstruction and Development of Infrastructure of Ukraine, Ukrzaliznytsia (UZ) and the State Customs Service for modernization border crossing points (BCP) to improve the logistics of cargo transportation, increase the volume of grain trade and export, as well as passenger transportation.
Photo: facebook.com/ERAUkraine
Photo: facebook.com/ERAUkraine
It will be recalled that the American agency USAID will help Ukrzaliznytsia to build a eurotrack to Lviv.
It was also reported that on October 23, the director of the USAID Mission in Ukraine, James Hope, and the director of the IREX organization in Ukraine, Mehri Druckman, met with Oksen Lisovyi, the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine, and representatives of Ukrainian organizations.
During the meeting, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine shared the strategy and vision of reforming education, and USAID representatives announced the start of a new direction to restore access to education within the framework of the Dream and Act program.
