North Sea–Mediterranean Corridor

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“The total length of the North Sea - Mediterranean corridor (NSM) is 5 465 km long, including the Connecting Europe Facility 2 (CEF 2) extension. It crosses 5 countries: the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, and Ireland.” (European Commission) “Both the European TEN-T core and comprehensive networks are defined explicitly with maps included in the annex of regulation 1315/2013. The corridors, however, which have been introduced as co-ordinating mechanisms for developing the TEN-T networks across borders, were not defined explicitly in the forms of maps, but rather as lists of cities and nodes. The North Sea Mediterranean Corridor is defined in the annex of the legal text as shown in the table below:ALIGNMENT: - Belfast – Baile Átha Cliath/Dublin – Corcaigh/Cork - Glasgow/Edinburgh – Liverpool/Manchester – Birmingham - Birmingham – Felixstowe/London /Southampton - London – Lille – Brussels/Bruxelles - Amsterdam – Rotterdam – Antwerpen – Brussels/Bruxelles – Luxembourg - Luxembourg – Metz – Dijon – Macon – Lyon – Marseille - Luxembourg – Metz – Strasbourg – Basel - Antwerpen/Zeebrugge – Ghent – Dunkerque/Lille – Paris” (North Sea-Mediterranean Core Network Corridor Study Final Report December 2014: 22) “With the revision of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), post 2020, the NSMED corridor alignment will change. In Ireland the corridor will be extended westwards to connect the port of Shannon-Foynes, and in France the connection along the Seine river from Paris to Le Havre through Rouen will be added. The corridor will also include maritime links between the three Irish core ports of Dublin, Cork and Shannon- Foynes, and core ports in the range from Le Havre to Amsterdam (Le Havre, Calais, Dunkerque, Zeebrugge, Antwerp, Ghent and Terneuzen (North Sea Port), Rotterdam and Amsterdam)." (Fourth Work Plan of the European Coordinator Péter Balázs Mobility and Transport 2020: 11). “Following amendments and closures, the actual funding going to this Corridor is €1.4 billion, corresponding to €4.5 billion in eligible costs. It is important to note that the major part of the reductions is re-injected in the 2019 MAP Call.” (CEF 2020: 26) The North Sea–Mediterranean Corridor was discontinued in 2024. References - https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-modes/rail/ertms/who-involved-ertms-deployment/corridors/north-sea-mediterranean-corridor_en - https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/c195c070-67e8-4642-b245-b9f8a55fbcec_en?filename=3rd_workplan_nsm.pdf - European Commission: Innovation and Networks Executive Agency, CEF support to North Sea - Mediterranean, Publications Office, 2020, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2840/518368 - https://transport.ec.europa.eu/system/files/2017-06/north_sea-mediterranean_study_0.pdf

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