Transport Minister’s second year in office is characterised by a speeding up of the realisation of some large infrastructural projects according to Transport Minister Petar Moutafchiev.

The procedure to choose an execution company for the Danube Bridge II construction features among the Ministry's largest achievements, Moutafchiev said at a news conference on September 3 as quoted by Bulgarian National Radio.

Geological procedures at Bulgaria's part of the river already finished. Romania is expected to finalise examining its coast in September 2007.

The new passenger terminal at Sofia airport and the electrification of the railway section between Plovdiv and Svilengrad were other successful projects. The latter was worth 340 million euro.

The Ministry currently prepares six new railway projects along the country's main routes, among which the sections between Vidin and Sofia, Plovdiv and Bourgas, Mezdra and Gorna Oryahovitsa, Sofia and Plovdiv.

The ministry's main priorities would be to increase transport safety and transport services' quality.