Between 5 and 7 October, Executive Vice-President and Commissioner for Trade, Valdis Dombrovskis, travels to Slovakia to visit the Ukrainian border region. Executive Vice-President Dombrovskis will be welcomed by the Minister of Transport of Slovakia, Pavol Lančarič, to visit a transhipment terminal and observe first hand important developments in Solidarity Lanes infrastructure. These developments are feeding into the work of the Joint Coordination Platform to facilitate Ukrainian grain exports and develop alternative transport routes.