Corridor X is one of the Pan-European corridors which runs between Salzburg in Austria and Thessaloniki in Greece. In the territory of North Macedonia, Rail Corridor X has a total length of 215 km and is fully operational. Within the country, it starts from the border crossing at Tabanovce in the north and ends in the south with the Border Crossing at Gevegelija, including the branch Xd from Corridor X that starts in Veles and ends at the Border Crossing at Kremenica by Bitola.
The rail border crossing point Tabanovce is one of the most important border crossings for both North Macedonia and for transport from Central Europe to SEE including Turkey and Central Asia. Aiming to increase the effectiveness of the border crossing procedures, North Macedonia and Serbia signed an Agreement on the establishment of border procedures for railway border crossing Tabanovce - Presevo that envisaged the construction of the joint railway border station (JRBS) in Tabanovce (N. Macedonia).
Based on this Agreement, the existing and limited station premises in Tabanovce need to be upgraded and new ones added to accommodate the officers of police, customs, railway companies (infrastructure manager, railway undertakings), and phytosanitary, veterinary and other controls as needed.
The main benefits from JRBS are time savings for trains, passengers and freight that are transiting the border between the countries and economies of scale because two separate stations are reduced to one. The proximity to the road border crossing in Tabanovce will allow the fast transfer of phytosanitary, veterinary and other specialised controllers between both JRBS and the road station by a new access road to be built.
