Lithuanian Transport Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius and his Turkish counterpart Binali Yıldırım signed the memorandum of understanding during a Lithuanian-Turkish business forum in Vilnius.
"Plans regarding Viking will depend on economic circumstances and on how this is going to be useful for businesses, rather than on political decisions or agreements between ministers," Sinkevičius told reporters.
The ministers agreed to launch a pilot Viking train to Turkey in the second half of this year.
The Viking shuttle train service between the Ukrainian port of Ilyichevsk and the Lithuanian port of Klaipėda via Kiev, Minsk and Vilnius was launched in February 2003. It covered about 2.3 million kilometers and carried more than 4.8 million tons of freight during the ten years.
