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An open cardboard folder with blank sheets, a partly folded road map, a ruler, a pencil and a cup of coffee on a wooden desk, in morning light.
NATIONAL

The new Government's programme names Ungheni five times, all of them on transport. The free zone never appears

Parliament voted on Tuesday the programme of the Cabinet led by Vasile Tofan, and on Wednesday the Government took the oath. In the document's 147 pages, Ungheni district appears five times — the motorway, the railway to Iași, the bridge over the Prut, the link to Chișinău and the Berești logistics hub — all of them on the transport axis — three of them with a 2029 horizon — and with a cautious verb: “first works advanced”, not completed. The free economic zone, which holds almost one in six salaried jobs in the district, is not mentioned even once.

Ion Calmis·23 July 2026· ExplainerWHAT'S AT STAKE
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
Aerial view of the steel railway bridge over the Prut River at Ungheni, with the railway track and the surrounding locality, in summer.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

The railway bridge over the Prut at Ungheni goes under technical assessment — a step toward Moldova's first electrified railway stretch

After Bucharest approved the electrification of the Iași–border line, the Moldovan side got to work: on 25 June, representatives of the Railway of Moldova met in Iași with their Romanian counterparts to coordinate the Iași–Ungheni line project. Among the agreed steps — the technical assessment of the bridge over the Prut, which is to be reconstructed, and preparing the systems for the future electrification, to European standards.

Ion Calmis·25 June 2026· News
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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 international overnight train with sleeper carriages stopped at a provincial Eastern-European station platform in blue-hour dusk; warmly lit windows, wet rails reflecting the light of a lamp post.
BORDER & TRANSPORT

The “Basarabia” Kyiv–Chisinau train stops in Ungheni daily from 28 June, after years of a rare service

The international “Basarabia” train, which links Kyiv to Chisinau through Ungheni station, switches from an every-other-day service to a daily one on 28 June. Ukrainian Railways announced the change after talks with the Railway of Moldova; for Ungheni residents it means a direct rail link every day — towards Chisinau and eastward — plus a new carriage for families with children. It is a different line from the one towards Iasi that is discussed in connection with electrification.

Ion Calmis·22 June 2026· Explainer
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