DESCRIPTION OF CORRIDORS

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CORRIDOR I

Description:
Corridor I is the VIA BALTICA road and the RAIL BALTICA railroad plus the ferry line Helsinki-Tallin.

Length:
Approximate 1710 km of rail and 1630 km of road

Direction:
From North to South

Transport modes:
Multimodal: rail, road, ferry

Links with other corridors:
Corridor IX: Kaunas (Lithuania)
There is also an additional appendix Riga - Kaliningrad.

CORRIDOR II

Description:
Corridor II connects Berlin (Germany), via Warszawa (Poland), Minsk (Belarus) and Moscow (Russia) with Nizhny Novgorod (Russia). The extension of Corridor II from Moscow to Nizhny Novgorod was decided at the Helsinki Conference, in 1997. The extension gives the Corridor access to the Trans-Siberian rail trunk line and to the inland waterways in the Russian Federation.

Length:
Approximate 2300 km of rail and 2200 km of road

Direction:
East - West

Transport modes:
Multimodal: rail, road

Source of information: "Status of the pan-European Transport Corridors and Transport Areas", by TINA Office (February 2000)

CORRIDOR IV

Description:
Corridor IV provides the link running from Dresden/Nuremberg (Germany), via Praga (Czech Republic) Vienna (Austria) / Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary) and to Romania.

Length:
Approximate 4340 km of rail and 3640 km of road

Direction:
From Northwest to Southwest

Transport modes:
Multimodal: rail, road, ports

Branches:
In Romania the Corridor splits into two branches:

• The Northern branch, running from Arad (Romania) via Bucuresti (Romania) to Constanta (Black Sea)
  
• The Southern branch running from Arad (Romania) via Craiova (Romania) to Sofia (Bulgaria)
  
  Another two branches are from Sofia (Bulgaria), to Thessaloniki (Greece) and to Istambul (Turkey).

Source of information: "Status of the pan-European Transport Corridors and Transport Areas", by TINA Office (February 2000)

CORRIDOR V

Description:
Corridor V provides the link running from Venice and Trieste (Italy) via Ljubljana (Slovenia) and Budapest (Hungary) with Lviv (Ukraine). Apart from this main link there are three more branches (see below for description).

Length:
Approximate 3270 km of rail and 2850 km of road

Direction:
From Southwest (Slovenia) to Northeast (Ukraine)

Transport modes:
Multimodal: rail, road, ports

Branches:
Branch A: from the Bratislava (Slovakia) to Uzgorod (Ukraine)
Branch B: from Budapest (Hungary) to Rijeka (Croatia)
Branch C: from Budapest (Hungary) via Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) to the port of Ploce (Croatia)

Source of information: "Status of the pan-European Transport Corridors and Transport Areas", by TINA Office (February 2000)

CORRIDOR VII

Description:
Corridor VII is the Danube. The Danube is the second largest river in Europe.

Length:
2415 km

Direction:
From Western to Eastern Europe through the Rhine, the Main and the Rhine-Main-Danube canal. Danube provides part of the link between the North Sea and the Black Sea

Transport mode:
Inland waterway and crosses: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, FR Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova and the Ukraine. Corridor VII also refers to the relevant port infrastructures (44 sea and river ports) and to the Black Sea-Danube Canal.

Links with other corridors (major inland ports):

• with Corridor IV: Budapest (Hungary); Medgidia (Romania)
  
  
• with Corridor V: Bratislava (Slovak Republic); Budapest; Dunaujvaros, Mohacs (Hungary);
  
  
• with Corridor IX: Oltenita, Giurgiu (Romania); Russe (Bulgaria);
  
  
• with Corridor X: Budapest; Belgrade, Novi Sad (FR Yugoslavia);
  
  In addition, there is the seaport of Constanta, lying at the mouth of the Danube - Black Sea Canal.

Source of information: "Status of the pan-European Transport Corridors and Transport Areas", by TINA Office (February 2000)

CORRIDOR X

Description:
Corridor X is the newest amongst the pan-European transport corridors. It was the Helsinki Conference deciding to include this corridor in the Balkan area into the network.

Direction:
From North-West to South-East

Transport modes:
Multimodal

Links with other corridors:
Corridor IV, in Sofia; the two go in parallel till Istanbul

Concerned countries:
Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, FY Macedonia, Greece, Hungary, Slovenia, FR Yugoslavia

Branches:
Four

Source of information: "Status of the pan-European Transport Corridors and Transport Areas", by TINA Office (February 2000)

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