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An excavator digs earth along the line of a dike by a riverbank while two men watch the works; in the far background, the wooded floodplain of the Prut.
LOCAL

Ungheni reinforces its Prut dike over 2.3 km and adds a riverfront promenade on top

Ungheni city hall has started work to reinforce the protective dike along the Prut and its tributary, the Delia, in the Ungheni-Vale neighbourhood — the area threatened by Prut floods in 2008, 2010 and 2020. The 2,341 metres of dike will carry a riverfront promenade with walkways, bike lanes and viewpoints over the river. The project is funded by the European Union with a €922,715 grant, through the cross-border Interreg programme, together with the twin city of Dorohoi in Romania.

Ion Calmis·7 July 2026· News
Aerial view of the metal railway bridge over the river Prut at Ungheni, with the rail line and the locality around it, in summer.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

The electrification of the railway to Ungheni has gone to tender: a contract of nearly 290 million lei, with bids due by 5 August

Romania's national railway (CFR) has published, in the Electronic Public Procurement System (SEAP), the notice for the design and construction of the electrification of the Iași–Border line — the concrete step our explainer a week ago flagged as the «next» one. The contract, estimated at 289.55 million lei excluding VAT, covers the Socola–Ungheni section and is the Romanian half of the joint project with the Republic of Moldova, which is to give Bessarabia its first kilometre of electrified railway — right through Ungheni. The deadline for bids: 5 August 2026.

Ion Calmis·30 June 2026· NewsWHAT'S AT STAKE
A modern electric train on a new line with overhead catenary, at dawn, approaching a border railway station.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

Ungheni would be the start of Moldova's first European-gauge railway: the study of the 140 km/h line to Chișinău has begun in Brussels

In Brussels, at the launch of the EU's Connectivity Agenda Platform, the Republic of Moldova, the European Commission and the European Investment Bank recorded the start of preparing the feasibility study for an entirely new electrified railway with European gauge on the Ungheni–Chișinău route. Trains designed for at least 140 km/h, able to run without changing axles at the border — and the starting point is Ungheni itself. It is the step that carries inland the electrified line from Iași we wrote about last week. For now it is only a study: the real cost and timeline will come out of it.

Ion Calmis·24 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
An electrified railway with catenary poles stretching to the horizon at dusk, with a train in the distance.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

Moldova's first electrified railway will pass through Ungheni: Bucharest has approved electrifying the line to Iași, with works to 2028

The government in Bucharest has approved the technical-economic indicators for electrifying the railway line between Iași and the border with the Republic of Moldova — the administrative step that opens the way to the design-and-build tender. It is the Romanian half of a cross-border project that will give the Republic of Moldova its first kilometre of electrified railway, right through Ungheni and over the 'Eiffel' bridge across the Prut. For a border-gateway district, it is the most concrete railway promise yet.

Ion Calmis·22 June 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
A team of rescuers in red suits prepares a rescue boat on a riverbank during a water-rescue exercise.
LOCAL

Six European countries rehearsed flood rescue on the Prut, in Ungheni district

A major European civil-protection exercise hosted by Moldova, “MD–EU MODEX 2026”, ended on 18 June. More than 250 rescuers from six countries — Poland, Germany, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria and the Netherlands — spent three days working through realistic flood scenarios, one of the sites being the Prut river, in Ungheni district. The drill comes just a month after the Prut and local streams really did flood Cornova, Pîrlița and Vulpești.

Ion Calmis·18 June 2026· News