Large Infrastructure Projects ltd. Sofia, Bulgaria

New Pan - European transport and water management project A special issue for TEN-T days and UIC Global Rail Freight Conference Rotterdam, 20 - 23 June 2016

• Large Infrastructure Projects Ltd. is a private Bulgarian company with headquarters in Sofia. • Large Infrastructure Projects ltd. is the creator and the developer of both ABC+De and Trerivs projects. • ABC+De means Aegean sea to Baltic sea Connection and Danube river. • ABC+De project is a new Pan- European transport and water management project for the Danube and tributaries. • Trerivs is a new water management and transport project for the rivers of Thrace- Maritsa ( Evros, Meric ), Arda, Tundza, Eritropotamos and Ergene. • The ABC + De project evolved from a study of new port on the Aegean Sea and new railway connecting the port and the site for the new plant in the middle of Bulgaria (town of Nikolaevo ) for processing of ores to the largest Pan-European project extending from the Aegean Sea, and Marmara Sea to Baltic Sea and North Sea as well as all along the Danube. • Project finance will be the method to provide funds for the building ABC+De railways, ports and logistics centers, based upon the projected cash flows. • Not planned to use EU funds for the ABC+De project design and construction costs.

The objectives of the ABC+De project are: 1. To create a new highly effective connection for transportation of goods between Suez Canal, Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East, Aegean sea and Marmara Sea regions , South East Europe and Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Northern Europe and the Baltic region; 2. Be set up a new Europe trade gateway to Africa, Middle and Far East; 3. To transform the Danube river into an efficient inland waterway, which can be relied on throughout the whole year; 4. To create a new passenger high-speed train lines between Istanbul, Bursa, Bucharest, Vienna, Sofia, Warsaw and Berlin; 5. To reduce greenhouse gases, environmental pollution and harmful impact of road transport; 6. Increasing economy of the regions covered by the project; development of tourism.

BALTIC SEA ENGLISH CHANNEL

WISLA BALTIC PORT

WLLC

ADRIATIC SEA

BUJORU PORT YANTRA PORT

TYRRHENIAN SEA

BLACK SEA

NEW AIRPOR STATIO T N

FERES PORT

IONIAN SEA

AEGEAN SEA

ABC + De project elements are: 1. A new port in the town of Feres (Greece) at Aegean sea; 2. SNS ( South- North Stream ) - high efficient new double line railway; 3. New ports on the 533+000th km on the Danube river, which will be hubs for the countries linked by the river; 4. A new port on the Baltic Sea; 5. Large number of new logistics centers around the ports and along new SNS railway; 6. Activities on the Danube that: - convert the river ( also Sava and Tisa ) into an effective, reliable and environmentally friendly transport way; - terminate the floods .

FERES PORT The new port will be composed of two parts. Deep section is located in Greek territorial waters. The part in land is intended for ships carrying new cars, for ferries and cruise ships. The two parts are connected with a channel.

Feres port • Deep sea water port, capable to handling more than 25 m draught ships; • Terminals for bulk cargo, containers, oil , LNG , general goods, agricultural products , semi – trailers , newly produced cars and other vehicles ; for acceptance of ferries and cruise ships; • May adopt ships due to the size and type of load can not pass through the Straits; • Feres will be one of the few European ports where can berth new 26 300 TEUs ULCS; • New European trade gate; • Hub for Eastern Mediterranean, Aegean sea, Marmara sea , Black Sea, Azov Sea. Provided all conditions for transshipments; • Connectivity with railways, available highway and international airport; • Existing and new build supporting infrastructure - water, electricity, gas main pipeline; • “Green” port; • Design capacity - 400 million tons per year (phased), quay walls over 100 km (phased).

WISLA BALTIC PORT

Wisla Baltic port • Designed primarily for the new Aegean sea- Baltic sea “green" corridor; • Terminals for containers, bulk cargo, LNG , general goods, agricultural products , semi –trailers , newly produced cars and other vehicles ; for acceptance of ferries; • Hub for the Baltic countries and Norway; • Design capacity - 150 million tons per year incl. 8 million TEUs, quay walls- 12,5 km.

New railway - South-North Stream (SNS) • New double line railway running from Feres port, passing through Eastern and Central Europe to a new port on the Baltic Sea ( near the city of Elblag – Poland ); • The railway is intended primarily for freight trains. The parameters of railroad are designed also for high-speed trains movement; • Branches which connect to the railway backbone include new railway routes to and from Istanbul , Bursa , Bucharest (reconstruction) , Budapest, Vienna, Warsaw (reconstruction), Hamburg / Bremerhaven/Cuxhaven via Berlin; • SNS is characterized by: high capacity + high commercial speed = high efficiency in a block train: up to 149 km/h competitive prices 476 TEUs or 1092 new cars average speed for prompt deliveries or 4 529 980 Nm³ NG the freight trains fifteen times bigger throughput huge amount of loads up to than an average 1,2 billion t per year European railway

Scheme of the railway stations along the new ABC+De project railroad

• SNS railway • characteristics • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Track gauge - 1435 mm; standard European railway; No of lines – 2; Ballastless tracks ; Static reference profile - width – 3250 mm, height- 6150 mm; appropriate for double stack container trains; Curve radius – not less than 7000 m ; Vertical curve – not less than 45000 m ; Max. slope -14 ‰ ; Warp - max. 110 mm; Maximum speed for freight trains - 160 km/h; Maximum speed for high-speed passenger trains - 380 km/h; Axle load - 31,5 t per axle; (in the rest European railways axel load is 22,5t) Train weight max. - 8500 t (Thinking about 20 000 ton trains ); Train length max. - 1775 m ; Rail stations length not less than 2250 m; Distance between stations – 16 300 m - 29 200 m; Catenary- AC 25 kV, 50 Hz; Total power of locomotives in a freight train – 21 600 kW; Designed for driverless trains.

Freight locomotives

ROLLING STOCK- freight in ABC+De project Electrical Locomotives 25 kV 50 Hz Co-Co , Bo-Bo, Bo-Bo-Bo-Bo Load per axle 31,5 t Power - not less 7000 kW; Total power of the locomotives no more than 21 600 kW Max. service speed 160 km / h Automatic coupling Train controlDRIVERLESS TRAINS (state of the art)

New innovative wagons Load per axle 31,5 t Max. service speed 160 km/h Monitoring system Low noise New type brakes, dynamic brakes, energy regeneration, remote control Automatic coupling

ABC+De freight trains timetables FERES PORT - WISLA BALTIC PORT FREIGHT TRAIN timetable

Feres sea port GR Lyubimets station BG Tsenovo station BG Alexandria East station Piteshti Nord station Sibiu West Logistic center station Mera ( Cluj- Napoca west) station Carei East station H-SK-UA Log Center station Mihalovce East station Tylawa station PL Debica North station WLLC station Radoszky station Wisla pre port station

Distance, km Duration of travel, h:min Average speed, km/h

1653,100 11:54 139,03

Time,h

Local time,h

0 0 2 2 3 4 5 6 6 7 8 8 10 11 11

0 0 2 2 3 4 5 6 5 6 7 7 9 10 10

FERES PORT - Vienna West Log. Center FREIGHT TRAIN timetable Minutes 0 54 24 41 45 37 38 28 58 15 15 42 8 9 54

Feres sea port GR Lyubimets station BG Tsenovo station BG Alexandria East station RO Piteshti Nord station Sibiu west logistic Center station Simeria, Deva station Carani East station RO Szeged South station H Szekesfehervar West station Gyor East station H Bratislava East Log. Center station SK Devinska Nova Ves North station SK Vienna West Log. Center A

Local Time,h time, h Minutes 0 0 0 0 0 59 2 2 17 2 2 34 3 3 40 4 4 31 5 5 3 6 6 3 6 5 36 7 6 42 8 7 12 8 7 35 8 7 47 9 8 16

FERES PORT - Berlin South Log. Center FREIGHT TRAIN timetable

Feres sea port GR Lyubimets station BG Tsenovo station BG Piteshti Nord station RO Sibiu West Logistic center station Carei East station RO Mihalovce East station SK Tylawa station PL Debica North station WLLC station Poznan South station PL Brieskow-Finkenheerd station D Berlin South Log. Center- Schonefeld airport connection

Distance , km

Distance, km Duration of travel, h:min Average speed, km/h

1361,320 9:16 146,9

1864,97

Duration of travel, h:min 12:32

Average speed, km/h

148,8

Time,h 0 0 2 3 4 5 6 7 7 9 10 11 12

Local time, h 0 0 2 3 4 5 5 6 6 8 9 10 11

minutes 0 56 11 32 21 55 43 31 58 19 57 52 32

SWEDEN

DENMARK UNITED KINGDOM

NORTH SEA BALTIC SEA

Cuxhaven Bremerhaven

Hamburg

RUSSIA LITHUANIA

Gdansk

NETHERLANDS ENGLISH CHANNEL

Berlin

RUSSIA

BELARUS

BELGIUM

GERMANY

Warsaw Lodz

POLAND

R=300km CZECH REPUBLIC

FRANCE

UKRAINE

Vienna

SWITZERLAND

SLOVAKIA Bratislava

AUSTRIA

Gyor

MOLDOVA

Budapest

ROMANIA

Iasi

Cluj-Napoca

SLOVENIA

Zagreb

Bacau

Szeged

HUNGARY

Sibiu

CROATIA

300 km distance from SNS railway for road transport feeding

Brasov

Pitesti Belgrade

ITALY

BOSNA AND HERZEGOVINA ADRIATIC SEA

Bucharest Constanta

SERBIA Varna

MONTENEGRO KOSOVO

BULGARIA Nikolaevo

Sofia

MAKEDONIA

TYRRHENIAN SEA

Edirne

ALBANIA GREECE

IONIAN SEA

BLACK SEA

Feres

AEGEAN SEA

Istanbul

Bursa

TURKEY

What is high speed passenger train? - On existing lines in excess of 200 km/h - On new lines in excess of 250 km/h In the ABC+De project the max. service speed for passenger trains is 360 km/h

High Speed Train destinations in the ABC+De project are: New Istanbul airport - Berlin New Istanbul airport - Bucharest New Istanbul airport - Warsaw New Istanbul airport - Vienna Bucharest - Berlin Bucharest - Warsaw Bucharest - Vienna Warsaw - Berlin New Istanbul airport - Sofia Bucharest - Sofia

ROLLING STOCK for high speed trains on ABC+De project • EMU ( electric multiple units ); • 25 kV, 50 Hz, triple voltage or hybrid Poland- 61,4 km route from Warsaw-Lodz Logistic Center (WLLC ) to Warsaw Centralna -3 kV DC; Germany- 25,3 km route from Berlin South Logistic Center (BSLC) to Berlin Hauptbahnhof- 15 kV AC 16 2/3 Hz; • Capacity- multiple about 500 passengers; • Service speed - 360 km/ h; • Bi-level EMUs are preferred; • Does not require tilting; • Train control- DRIVERLESS TRAINS ( state of the art ).

ABC+De high speed passenger trains timetables Warsaw- Berlin Warsaw centralna

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Makolice station Poznan South station

7

Berlin South Log. Center- Schonefeld airport connection Berlin Hauptbahnhof

8

0 14 0 19 0 New Istanbul airport station 30 30 30 Kapikule station TR 9 15 9 20 9 Nikolaevo south station

55 55 55 8 16 8 21 8

578 ,430 km distance 2h 9min duration 270,47 average speed

New Istanbul airport - Vienna

New Istanbul airport - Berlin

Piteshti East station Sibiu West Log. center station Mera (Cluj-Napoca west) station H-SK-UA Log Center station Debica North station Makolice station Poznan South station Berlin South Log. CenterSchonefeld airport connection Berlin Hauptbahnhof

6 6 7 8 8 9 9 10 11 11 12 12 6 h 52 min 292,70 2 008,25

0 44 11 1 31 0 8 40 9 22 10 15 10 54

16 16 17 18 18 19 19 20 21 21

18 19 20 20

0 44 71 1 31 0 40 22 15 54

11 39 22 21 39 11 52 22 21 52 duration km/haverage speed km distance

New Istanbul airport station Kapikule station TR

6 0 16 6 46 16 Nikolaevo south station 7 12 17 Piteshti East station 8 3 18 Sibiu West Logistic center station 8 33 18 Simeria, Deva station 8 52 18 Carani East station 9 23 19 Szeged South station 9 8 44 19 18 Kecskemet South Log. C. station 10 9 4 20 19 Budapest Keleti 10 9 32 20 19 11 4 Gyor East -station Gabchikovo 10 11 21 20 Bratislava hlavni stanica 11 10 26 21 20 Vienna central station 11 10 45 21 20 1487,345 km distance 5 h 46 min duration 258,48 km/haverage speed

0 46 12 3 33 52 23 44 4 32 4 11 26 45

ABC+De target market

NORTH SEA NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

BALTIC SEA ENGLISH CHANNEL

WISLA BALTIC PORT

WLLC

ADRIATIC SEA

STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR

BUJORU PORT YANTRA PORT

TYRRHENIAN SEA

BLACK SEA

NEW AIRPORT STATION

FERES PORT

IONIAN SEA

AEGEAN SEA

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

DANUBE RIVER NEW WATERWAY CHANNEL NEW DAM NEW RAILWAY

SUEZ CANAL

BALTIC SEA

Cuxhaven

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Hamburg South; Uelzen North; Berlin South Poznan South; Warsaw-Lodz; FRANCE Debica North Vienna West; Heimatland; Devinska Nova Ves North SWITZERLAND H-SK-UA; Gyor; Szekesfehervar West; Budapest West; Budapest East; Kecskemet South; Szeged South Timisoara-Arad; Cluj-Napoca; Sibiu West; Calimanesti; Pitesti; ITALY Brasov; Bacau; Iasi; Bucharest North-West Bucharest West; Olteni TYRRHENIAN Nikolaevo; SEA Lyubimets Feres Catalca; Bandirma South Bursa

Berlin

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GERMANY-

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BELGIUM

RUSSIA Gdansk WISLA

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Hamburg

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TURKEY

The principle of the ABC + De project for the Danube is “ add value ” The formula of the ABC + De project for Middle and Lower Danube is

7 in 1 1. no more floods 2. less drought 3. effective river navigation- all around year , 4 m draft 4. ecology and biodiversity 5. connectivity 6. green energy 7. unified management of the river and its tributaries , in one - the ABC+De project In the ABC+De project the elements of the infrastructure on the Danube are compulsorily in the following order: 1. Dams and other hydraulic structures on the river and its tributaries; 2. Railways; 3. Highways and roads; 4. Joint transport solutions for cities on both sides of the river; 5. Recreational trails for bicycle and tourism.

The ABC+De project activities will make the Danube river in a effective waterway • From the river mouth to 1895th km the characteristics of a convoy of barges and pusher will be: • Dimensions: - length - 301,00 m ; - draft - 4,00 m in the whole year (even at the lowest waters); - beam - 33,20 m. Speed up to 17 km/ h • Capacity up to 29 000 tones of cargo ; up to 2250 TEUs. • As a result of the reduced distance and increased speed, the travel time from the new ports, located at the 533,000th km to Bratislava / Vienna will be halved.

ABC+De project 1. To create a new highly effective connection for transportation of goods between Suez Canal, Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East, Aegean Sea and Marmara Sea regions , South East Europe and Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Northern Europe and the Baltic region; 2. Be set up a new Europe trade gateway to Africa, Middle and Far East; 3. Conversion of the Danube in constant all year around, efficient and environmentally friendly transport corridor; 4. To create a new passenger high-speed railway lines between Istanbul, Bursa, Aegean Sea, Bucharest, Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Sofia, Warsaw and Berlin; 5. To reduce greenhouse gases, environmental pollution and harmful impact of road transport; 6. Increasing the growth rate of the economies of the regions (respectively of countries) in the project scope. The objectives of the Large Infrastructure Projects ltd. are to realize the ABC + De project . Large Infrastructure Projects ltd. is in process of preparing the action plan that will involve the governments, municipalities, NGOs, expert and public for project implementation.

Proposal to include the ABC+De project in the Core Network Corridors as New Aegean-Baltic corridor NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

TEN-T CORE NETWORK CORRIDORS BALTIC SEA

NORTH SEA

Gdansk

Wisla Baltic Port

Hamburg Bremerhaven Warsaw

Berlin

ENGLISH CHANNEL

Passau

ABC+De PROJECT: NEW RAILWAY BYPASS AND NAVIGATION CHANNALS New Dam

Bratislava Vienna

BALTIC - ADRIATIC NORTH SEA - BALTIC MEDITERRANEAN ORIENT / EAST - MED SCANDINAVIAN - MEDITERRANEAN RHINE - ALPINE ATLANTIC NORTH SEA - MEDITERRANEAN RHINE - DANUBE

Budapest

AEGEAN-BALTIC Sebes Sibiu

Bucharest Pitesti

BLACK SEA

Belgrade

Yantra Port Nikolaevo Sofia

Edirne

Istanbul

ADRIATIC SEA Bursa

Feres Port TYRRHENIAN SEA

IONIAN SEA STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR

AEGEAN SEA

MEDITERRANEAN SEA SUEZ CANAL

LARGE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS LTD, 1407 Sofia, 28 Banat str., Bulgaria, tel. +35929632099, f. +35928657326, e-mail: [email protected]