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motorways buses edit tec is the single public transit authority for all of wallonia operating buses and trams charleroi is the sole walloon city to have a metro system the charleroi pre metro wallonia has an extensive and well developed rail network served by the belgian national railway company sncb wallonia s numerous motorways fall within the scope of the trans european transport network ten t this priority programme run by the european union provides more than 70 000 km of transport infrastructure including motorways express rail lines and roadways and has been developed to carry substantial volumes of traffic 66 waterways edit with traffic of over 20 million tonnes and 26 kilometres of quays the autonomous port of liège pal is the third largest inland port in europe 67 it carries out the management of 31 ports along the meuse and the albert canal it is accessible to sea and river transporters weighing up to 2 500 tonnes and to push two barge convoys 4 500 tonnes soon to be raised to 9 000 tonnes even if wallonia does not have direct access to the sea it is very well connected to the major ports thanks to an extensive network of navigable waterways that pervades belgium and it has effective river connections to antwerp rotterdam and dunkirk 68 on the west side of wallonia in hainaut province the strépy thieu boat lift permits river traffic of up to the new 1350 tonne standard to pass between the waterways of the meuse and scheldt rivers completed in 2002 at an estimated cost of 160 million then 6 4 billion belgian francs the lift has increased river traffic from 256 kt in 2001 to 2 295 kt in 2006 brussels south charleroi airport namur railway station charleroi pre metro tec bus in liège international relations edit trade edit the walloon export and foreign investment agency awex is the wallonia region of belgium s government agency in charge of foreign trade promotion and foreign investment attraction 69 the awex organizes regular trade missions to the promising market of kazakhstan where it has a representative office in almaty in 2017 the awex together with the flanders investment and trade brought a delegation of 30 companies to astana and almaty the two largest cities in kazakhstan 70 twin towns and sister states edit aichi japan 71 maryland usa 72 see also edit belgium portal history of coal mining manifesto for walloon culture huguenots history of the term wallon references edit footnotes edit excluding the german speaking community while retaining language facilities for french speakers in amel büllingen burg reuland bütgenbach eupen kelmis lontzen raeren and sankt vith only in the german speaking community while retaining language facilities for german speakers in malmedy and waimes while several regional languages such as walloon are spoken within wallonia they are not officially recognized by the walloon region itself under the belgian constitutional system language and cultural matters fall under the jurisdiction of the communities these regional languages are recognized by the french community language facilities in comines warneton enghien flobecq and mouscron w ɒ ˈ l oʊ n i ə wol oh nee ə walɔni ⓘ valoˈniː ⓘ vaˈloːni̯ən ⓘ walloon waloneye or walonreye walɔn ʀ ɛ ː j dutch wallonië ʋɑˈloːnijə ⓘ ʁeʒjɔ̃ walɔn vaˈloːnɪʃə ʁeˈɡi̯oːn walloon redjon walone dutch waals gewest ˌʋaːls xəˈʋɛst ⓘ notes edit 1 2 3 wallonia or the walloon region is a federal region with legislative power which has specific bodies and remits within the belgian federal state 21 august 2026 1 2 3 be stat bestat statbel fgov be 1 2 structuur van de bevolking statbel statbel fgov be eu regions by gdp eurostat retrieved 18 september 2023 the belgian constitution pdf brussels belgium belgian house of representatives may 2014 p 5 archived from the original pdf on 10 august 2015 retrieved 10 september 2015 article 3 belgium comprises three regions the flemish region the walloon region and the brussels region article 4 belgium comprises four linguistic 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related to wallonia at wikimedia commons www wallonie be archived 31 may 2012 at the wayback machine logistics in wallonia tourism in wallonia musique en wallonie archived 2016 03 03 at the wayback machine walloon composers french v t e subdivisions of belgium communities flemish french german speaking regions and provinces brussels flanders antwerp east flanders flemish brabant limburg west flanders wallonia hainaut liège luxembourg namur walloon brabant arrondissements administrative electoral judicial municipalities by region brussels flanders wallonia v t e greater region members belgium french community german speaking community walloon region france lorraine germany rhineland palatinate saarland luxembourg diekirch grevenmacher luxembourg institutions summit conferences regional commission interregional parliamentary council university charter european cultural capital 2007 house of the greater region private cooperations authority control databases international isni viaf gnd 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