Belgian Streetcar Renaissance
02 марта, 00:00
By Vadym RYZHKOV, The Day
Over a hundred Belgian business people are coming to Dnipropetrovsk in
early May to meet local industrialists and entrepreneurs. It was disclosed
during a visit to Dnipropetrovsk by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
of Belgium to Ukraine Pierre Vaesen.
The city authorities promised to submit later in March a list of their proposals as to Belgian participation in city development projects, including automotive and electric transport. The latter provoked a special interest among the guests. For it is Belgian companies that built the first streetcar lines here well before the 1917 revolution. The Belgians also owned in the city a number of still-functioning large steel mills and some Nikopol basin manganese mines. The ambassador said Belgium had not forgotten this. Yet, today there is not a single Ukrainian-Belgian joint venture in Dnipropetrovsk oblast.
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