The construction of a wide gauge from the border with Ukraine to ports in the Polish Gdansk and the Lithuanian Klaipeda will facilitate the delivery of Ukrainian grain and give Poland the opportunity to earn money on its transit, said the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solsky in an interview with the Polish publication Puls Biznesu.

According to him, if a wide route is built from the border with Ukraine to Gdansk, Ukrainian companies will guarantee the appropriate scale of transportation along this route for 10 years in the future.

“I’ll say more: Poland will be able to build factories on its coast for processing Ukrainian grain and export finished products, on which, of course, will earn more,” Solsky noted.

According to him, there are many more cars for transporting grain in Ukraine than throughout Europe. Therefore, instead of investing in wagons for the European standard narrow gauge, it makes more sense to build a 1,520 mm track from the Ukrainian border to the Polish coast.

Solsky also said that there are investors in Ukraine who are ready to finance such an infrastructure project.

“The issue that must be resolved is the adoption by the Polish parliament of a simplified procedure for such investment. Such a simplified procedure has already been adopted in Poland, for example, in the case of the construction of an oil port or a gas terminal. I know that this proposal has been analyzed. However, it’s better to ask Polish sources about the fate of the project,” the minister added.