Freight Corridor

A freight corridor is a designated railway line between two or more countries of the European Union that connects two or more train stations along a main route .

For the time being, nine European freight corridors have been created to create a European rail network for competitive freight transport . The infrastructure managers have been with the EU regulation obliged 913/2010 to work more closely than ever, cross-border continuous lines offer and simplify the ordering process route.

Parts of these freight corridors were tendered as ERTMS corridors , on which the uniform European train control system, the European Train Control System (ETCS) and the GSM-R mobile radio system , are to be used at an early stage . For this purpose, sections of the route outside of freight corridors were also tendered as components of ERTMS corridors. To increase the capacity and competitiveness of these corridors, bottlenecks in the infrastructure will be eliminated and the operational rules harmonized.

For the ETCS equipping of the corridors and locomotives, studies expected around 2006, for the period 2007 to 2013, total infrastructure costs of 1.0 to 1.4 billion euros and costs for equipping the rolling stock of 0.6 to 0.8 Billion euro.

In 2013 the European Union decided to integrate the freight corridors into the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). The freight transport corridors will be aligned with the corridors of the Trans-European Transport Network. The previous numbering is no longer applicable and is being replaced by the names of the Trans-European Transport Network.

List of freight corridors

No.	Name ( TEN-T )	Member States	Main routes	ERTMS corridor	Most important projects	Creation by
1.	Rhine - Alps corridor	NL , BE , DE , ( CH ,) IT	Zeebrugge - Antwerp - Duisburg			Nov 10, 2013
			Rotterdam - Duisburg - Basel - Milan - Genoa	A.	NEAT with feeder lines
(2)	North Sea - Mediterranean Corridor	GB	Northern Great Britain - Channel Tunnel - Benelux countries		West Coast Main Line	2016 to 2020
2.		NL, BE, LU , FR	Rotterdam - Antwerp			Nov 10, 2013
			Antwerp - Luxembourg - Metz - Dijon - Lyon / Basel	C.
(3)	Scandinavia- Mediterranean Corridor	( NO )	Oslo - Stockholm			2016 to 2020
3.		SE , DK , DE, AT , IT	Stockholm - Malmö - Copenhagen - Hamburg - Innsbruck - Verona - Naples	B.	Fehmarnbelt , Brenner Base Tunnel	Nov 10, 2015
			Naples - Palermo
(3)		IT	Connection to some Italian seaports			2016 to 2020
4th	Atlantic corridor	PT , ES , FR	Sines - Lisbon / Leixões - Madrid and    Sines - Elvas / Algeciras - Madrid Madrid - Medina del Campo / Bilbao / San Sebastian - Irun - Bordeaux - Paris / Le Havre / Metz / Strasbourg			Nov 10, 2013
(4)		DE	Metz - Saarbrücken - Mannheim
5.	Baltic Sea - Adriatic Corridor	PL , CZ , SK , AT, IT, SI	Gdynia - Katowice - Ostrava / Žilina - Bratislava / Vienna    Bratislava / Vienna - Klagenfurt - Udine - Venice / Trieste and    Bratislava / Vienna - Graz - Maribor - Ljubljana - Koper / Trieste Trieste - Bologna / Ravenna		Semmering Base Tunnel , Koralm Railway	Nov 10, 2015
6th	Mediterranean corridor	IT	Almería - Madrid - Zaragoza / Barcelona and    Almería - Valencia			Nov 10, 2013
			Valencia - Zaragoza / Barcelona - Marseille - Lyon - Turin - Milan - Verona - Padua / Venice - Trieste / Koper - Ljubljana - Budapest	D.	Mont Cenis Base Tunnel
			Budapest - Záhony (border with Ukraine )
(7)	Corridor Orient –Eastern Mediterranean	DE	Rostock / Hamburg / Bremerhaven / Wilhelmshaven - Dresden			2016 to 2020
		DE, CZ	Dresden - Prague	E.		2016 to 2020
7th		CZ, AT, SK, HU, RO , BG , GR	Prague - Vienna / Bratislava - Budapest    Budapest - Bucharest - Constanța and			Nov 10, 2013
			Budapest - Vidin - Sofia - Thessaloniki - Athens
(7)		BG	Connection with Burgas and Svilengrad			2016 to 2020
8th.	North Sea – Baltic Corridor or North Sea – Baltic Corridor	DE, NL, BE, PL, LT	Bremerhaven / Rotterdam / Antwerp - Aachen			Nov 10, 2015
			Aachen - Duisburg - Magdeburg    Magdeburg - Berlin - Warsaw	F.
			Warsaw - Terespol (border to Belarus ) / Kaunas and
(8th)		DE, PL	Magdeburg - Falkenberg (Elster) - Horka - Terespol (border to Belarus)	F.		2016 to 2020
		LT, LV , EE , PL	Kaunas - Riga - Tallinn and connection to Polish Baltic Sea ports		Rail Baltica	2016 to 2020
(9)	Rhine- Danube corridor	FR, DE, AT, CZ, SK, HU, RO	Strasbourg - Mannheim - Frankfurt am Main - Nuremberg - Wels / Prague and    Strasbourg - Munich - Salzburg - Wels Wels - Vienna - Bratislava - Budapest - Arad - Constanța			2016 to 2020
9.		CZ, SK	Prague - Horní Lideč - Žilina - Košice - Čierna nad Tisou (border with Ukraine)			Nov 10, 2013

See also

• Trans-European Networks
• Rail interoperability
• Pan-European transport corridors

Sources and web links

• Summaries of EU legislation: A European rail network for competitive freight transport , accessed on August 4, 2013
• Regulation (EU) No. 913/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2010 on the creation of a European rail network for competitive freight transport
• Decision 2012/88 / EU of the Commission of January 25, 2012 on the technical specification for the interoperability of the subsystems "train control, train protection and signaling" of the trans-European rail system , section 7.3., P. 47 ff. (On ERTMS corridors).
• Regulation (EU) 2016/919 of the Commission of May 27, 2016 on the technical specification for the interoperability of the "train control, train protection and signaling" subsystems of the rail system in the European Union
• Trans-European corridors are becoming the core network . In: Swiss Railway Review . No. 12/2013 . Minirex, ISSN  1022-7113 , p. 627 .
• The EU is expanding the network of freight corridors. In: Swiss Railway Review. No. 2/2014, Minirex, Lucerne, pp. 74-75.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Peter Winter: UIC conference for the introduction of the European Rail Traffic Management System . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International . No. 6 , 2006, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 284 f .
2. ^ Atlantic Corridor Description. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .