Railway transport corridor eight between Bulgaria and Macedonia will be restored to be taken into usage as part of European Union (EU) financial projects for the period from 2010 to 2013.

European Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot said before European Parliament that after providing funding to Macedonia for railway corridor 10, the renovation of corridor eight would be a priority, investor.bg reported referring to Macedonian Utrinski Vesnik daily.

The EU estimated that the railway renovation would cost 500 million euro.

The construction of the railway section had begun in the 1990s but in 2001 the project had been halted.

The route of corridor eight passes through Skopje-Gyueshevo-Sofia-Bourgas and is part of the corridor connecting Adriatic Sea to Black Sea.