(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 28. Türkiye and Greecehave reached an agreement on the construction of a new bridgeconnecting the checkpoints of the two countries in the MaritsaRiver area, Trend reports.
The construction of the new 811-meter-long, four-lane bridgestructure will start this year. The structure will functionalongside the old two-lane bridge built in 1958.
Yunus Sezer, the governor of Edirne, a province borderingGreece, said that the existing bridge can no longer cope with theincreasing volumes of Türkiye's international trade. Therefore, theauthorities of the two countries have decided to implement a newtransportation project. The construction work will be financed byboth sides.
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