Ring Highway to Connect Eight Black Sea Countries

Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine will be connected via highway which will guarantee the drivers’ safety, speed and comfort. This is what the Memorandum of Agreement for Coordinated Development of the Black Sea Ring Highway between the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (OBSEC) member countries envisages. The document is part of the actions related to the creation of a Black Sea ring corridor - a multimodal transport network, and includes the maintenance, reconstruction, development, modernization and new construction of a main and secondary road infrastructure.

The length of the Black Sea ring highway is approximately 7,000 km. The main route could pass through the cities of Istanbul (Turkey) – Samsun (Turkey) – Trabzon (Turkey) – Batumi (Georgia) – Poti (Georgia) – Novorossiysk (Russia) – Rostov-upon-Don (Russia) – Taganrog (Russia) – Mariupol (Ukraine) – Melitopol (Ukraine) – Odessa (Ukraine) – Chisinau (Moldova) – Bucharest (Romania) – Haskovo (Bulgaria) – Edirne (Turkey) – Istanbul (Turkey) and Komotini (Greece) – Alexandroupolis (Greece) – Istanbul (Turkey).

It has been planned the funding for the construction and reconstruction of the Black Sea ring highway to come from national funds and budgets, as well as from capital from the private sector. The funding can also be provided from the EU and from loans from the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank and other banks and funds.


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