North Sea-Baltic corridor

“The North Sea – Baltic Corridor stretches from the North Sea ports in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany to Poland and continues north through Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia to Helsinki and Oulu in Finland and Luleå in Sweden. To the South, the corridor extends from Berlin and Warsaw via Lublin to Kyiv and from Magdeburg via Leipzig to Katowice and via Lviv to Kyiv and Mariupol in Ukraine. It includes rail, road, airports, ports, RRT's, inland waterway and links to the European Maritime Space. The biggest project on the corridor is Rail Baltica, a European standard gauge railway line connecting Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Poland and the rest of the EU. The North Sea-Baltic Corridor consists of nearly 12 900 km of railways, 8 600 km of roads and 2 800 km of inland waterways.” (European Commission)“ The 3 200 km long multimodal corridor connects the capitals of all the Member States through which it passes: Helsinki (FI), Tallinn (EE), Riga (LV), Vilnius (LT), Warsaw (PL), Berlin (DE), Brussels (BE) and Amsterdam (NL). Among the 17 urban nodes there are 12 multi-corridor urban nodes: Helsinki (2 Corridors), Warsaw (2), Poznan (2), Berlin (3), Hamburg (3), Bremen (3), Hannover (3) Cologne (2) Brussels (3) Antwerp (3) Rotterdam (3) and Amsterdam (3).” (Work Plan of the European Coordinator Catherine Trautmann 2015: 6) “The alignment of the North Sea–Baltic core network corridor is defined in the Regulation (EU) 1315/1316/2013 (L 348 p.152) as follows: - Helsinki–Tallinn–Rīga - Ventspils–Rīga - Rīga–Kaunas - Klaipėda–Kaunas–Vilnius - Kaunas–Warszawa - BY border–Warszawa–Poznań–Frankfurt/Oder–Berlin–Hamburg - Berlin–Magdeburg–Braunschweig–Hannover - Hannover–Bremen–Bremerhaven/Wilhelmshaven - Hannover–Osnabrück–Hengelo–Almelo–Deventer–Utrecht - Utrecht–Amsterdam - Utrecht–Rotterdam–Antwerpen - Hannover–Köln–Antwerpen” (North Sea – Baltic Core Network Corridor Study Final Report December 2014: 8) “The North Sea-Baltic Corridor is linking some of the most important ports in Europe. These connections are not only between the ports themselves but crucially also with the hinterland of each of them - either the "last mile" connection into the port itself or the medium connections to the nearest inland node and the longer connections to the Core Network main corridor. The objective of the North Sea-Baltic Corridor is to link these ports by all available transport modes - not only by sea, but by rail, roads, inland waterways and air. In other words the links should be multi-modal as well as including relevant traffic and information management systems.” (Work Plan of the European Coordinator Catherine Trautmann 2015: 3) “Following amendments and closures, the actual funding going to this Corridor is €2.7 billion, corresponding to €4.6 billion in eligible costs. It is important to note that the major part of the reductions is re-injected in the last CEF Transport calls of the current programming period.” (CEF 2020: 20) References: - https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructure-and-investment/trans-european-transport-network-ten-t/north-sea-baltic-corridor_en - https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/d32835a5-3fca-4f29-87b9-092073ebceb1_en?filename=1st_workplan_nsb.pdf - European Commission: Innovation and Networks Executive Agency, CEF support to North Sea - Baltic Corridor, Publications Office, 2020, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2840/517689 - https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/d32835a5-3fca-4f29-87b9-092073ebceb1_en?filename=1st_workplan_nsb.pdf - https://transport.ec.europa.eu/document/download/97d59bfb-ae56-406c-a8e4-eda6cafa8390_en?filename=north_sea-baltic_study.pdf