Baltic Sea – Adriatic Sea Corridor

In September 2024 I was appointed as the European Coordinator for the Baltic Sea-Adriatic Sea Corridor. I am grateful to the European Institutions and the Corridor Member States for the trust they put in me. Mr Marcin Wójcik as the adviser at DG MOVE and Mr Michal Žiliak as the adviser at CINEA will assist me during my mandate. Let's continue to work together towards completing the Baltic Sea-Adriatic Sea European Transport Corridor with the same constructive attitude and spirit of cooperation experienced so far on the Baltic-Adriatic Core Network Corridor.

The European Commission has selected 11 consortia of transport consultants to support the European Coordinators in implementing the nine European Transport Corridors and two horizontal priorities: European Maritime Space (EMS) and European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS). The contract for the Baltic Sea-Adriatic Sea European Transport Corridor study has been awarded to a consortium led by Tplan Consulting, involving HaCon, iC Consulenten, NDCon, Panteia, and the University of Maribor.

A first Baltic Sea-Adriatic Sea Corridor event took place at the Connecting Europe Days on April 5, 2024, in Brussels, as a seminar heralding its future establishment. Ms Anne Elisabet Jensen presented the new European Transport Corridor to the TEN-T community, discussing main expectations and challenges associated with the revised TEN-T Regulation with the Corridor stakeholders.

Ms Anne Elisabet Jensen participated in a dialogue hosted by the Rail Freight Corridor Baltic-Adriatic on monitoring the progress of the rail critical Corridor cross-border sections, Alpine crossings in Austria, and second track Koper-Divača. The meeting also represented the occasion for Ms Jensen to meet with Ms Denisa Žiláková from the Slovak Ministry of Transport and visit the project for the modernisation of the Žilina railway node.

As part of the 2024-2026 Baltic Sea-Adriatic Sea Corridor study, a monthly press review is conducted for internal use by the European Coordinator and European Commission. Selected articles focus on Corridor activities by the European Coordinator and Institutions, progress in the achievement of the TEN-T infrastructure and operational requirements, plans and strategies by the Corridor Members States and Stakeholders of relevance to implement the TEN-T policy. Read more for an update on the Corridor progress over the past months.

The first meeting of the Baltic Sea-Adriatic Sea Corridor Forum is going to take place in Brussels on the 19th of November 2024, between 14:00 and 18:00, in Rue de la Loi 102, Auditorium, Ground floor, 1049-Brussels. The official invitation and draft agenda will be issued in October 2024, together with further instructions to register to the event.

Ms Anne Elisabet Jensen, plans to visit the Corridor Ministries of Transport in autumn 2024 and early 2025 to inaugurate her new mandate as Coordinator of the Baltic Sea-Adriatic Sea European Transport Corridor.

The European Coordinator, Ms Anne Elisabet Jensen, will participate in the meeting of the Railway Advisory Groups and Terminal Advisory Groups of the Rail Freight Corridors Baltic-Adriatic and Amber. The Rail Freight Corridor Baltic-Adriatic will host the meeting, which will involve all the logistics nodes of the newly established Baltic Sea-Adriatic Sea Corridor. This represents a continuation of the Baltic-Adriatic Working Group of Ports and Rail Road Terminals, now extended to the Railway Undertakings.

The Slovenian Ministry of Transport will host a 3I Dialogue on Interoperability, Interconnectivity, and Innovation involving the main Slovenian Baltic Sea-Adriatic Sea European Transport Corridor stakeholders.

The 11th annual forum of the Association of Polish Regions of the Transport Corridor Baltic-Adriatic will be organised in Koper, Slovenia, which will be also attended by the European Coordinator.

On 24 September 2024, the European Commission launched the 2024 CEF Transport calls for proposals, offering €2.5 billion of funding for projects on the TEN-T network. The call is open until 21 January 2025.