Pan-European Corridor VIII | |
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![]() Pan-European Corridor VIII highlighted in red | |
Route information | |
Length | 1,500 km (930 mi) |
Major junctions | |
Start end | Durrës (Albania) |
End end | Varna (Bulgaria) |
Location | |
Countries | Albania, North Macedonia and Bulgaria |
Highway system | |
The Corridor VIII is one of the Pan-European corridors. It comprises both road and rail routes. Both commence on the Italian Adriatic coast at Bari or Brindisi, with a ferry crossing to Durrës in Albania. From there the routes cross the southern Balkans into Bulgaria and thence to Varna, on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The road corridor follows the route: Tirana/Durrës/Vlorë – Elbasan – Skopje – Pernik – Sofia – Plovdiv – Burgas – Varna.[1] Although as yet incomplete, it is broadly paralleled by the rail route: Durrës/Vlorë-Lin-Radožda-Kičevo-Skopje-Kumanovo-Beljakovtse-Kriva Palanka-Gyueševo-Sofija-Burgas-Varna.