Description
“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 12900 km of railways, 8600 km of roads and 2800 km of inland waterways” (European Commission).