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| | Historic signing of the agreement on the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupoli pipeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Through the 279 km-long oil pipeline, from the port of Burgas, in Bulgaria, to Alexandroupoli, in Greece, with a total budget of €900-1,000 million, and initial annual output of 35 million tons – with the potential for an increase to 50 million tons p.a. |
 | | Dora Bakoyannis recently stressed, projects like this “strengthen the international position and role of our country in a sector of international diplomacy – energy diplomacy – that is of ever increasing importance in the international strategic environment.” |
 | | Special port facilities will be constructed in the area of Alexandroupoli for the pipeline’s ancillary services, while revenues, paid as transit fees to the |
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