Baltic Sea - Adriatic Sea corridor

Overview

The Baltic Sea-Adriatic Sea (BSAS) European Transport Corridor (ETC) extends in the North from the Polish Baltic Sea ports of Gdańsk and Gdynia as well as Szczecin and Świnoujście and the city of Biała Podlaska through Kłodzko, Kraków and the Katowice region to Brno in the Czechia and Bratislava in Slovakia. It stretches further to Vienna in Austria and Budapest in Hungary and its Eastern branch ends in the Slovenian port of Koper and the Croatian ports of Rijeka and Split. The Western branch to Italy connects  Bologna and the ports of Trieste, Venice, Ravenna, and Bari. 

Corridor infrastructure

The BSAS corridor comprises more than 10,000 km of railway tracks and over 5,500 km of roads. The corridor connects multimodal freight terminals located in 12 seaports and in 5 inland waterway ports along the Danube with 28 rail-road terminals. A total of 52 urban nodes are part of the corridor, including the capital cities of Warszawa, Wien, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana and Zagreb. The BSAS corridor includes 17 airports of which Warszawa, Wien and Budapest register an annual traffic of over 12 million passengers. 

Main bottlenecks and missing links

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. It is of strategic importance to modernise the rail infrastructure in cohesion countries, improve the hinterland connections of the corridor ports, and to develop the corridor infrastructure in the urban nodes and their integration in the TEN-T network. Among the key projects are Semmering base tunnel in Austria, the high speed railway lines in Czechia and Poland, the second railway track between Koper and Divača, the new railway line between Rijeka and Zagreb in Croatia and the Central Communication Hub in Poland. 

Challenges ahead

Huge efforts have been made to turn the corridor into an efficient transport axis for growth and jobs in Central Europe. It will be critical to complete the BSAS by 2030 for the core network and 2040 for the extended core network. A large number of projects to improve the corridor infrastructure and ensure compliance with the requirements of TEN-T Regulation are already ongoing or planned. These investments concern the modernisation of the existing railway lines, roads, ports and airports, and the construction of new links, last-mile connections to logistic and urban nodes. The BSAS is also important for the military mobility.

The BSAS constitutes also a platform bringing together various stakeholders, including the corridor Member States, EU institutions, infrastructure managers and users in a permanent dialogue for a more competitive and greener Single European Transport Area.

European Coordinator for the TEN-T Baltic-Adriatic Corridor, Mrs Anne Elisabet Jensen

Mrs. Anne E. Jensen, born 1951 in Kalundborg Denmark was appointed European Coordinator for the TEN-T Baltic-Adriatic Corridor on the 16 September 2018. She got reappointed as European Coordinator the Baltic Sea – Adriatic Sea European Transport Corridor on 9 September 2024.

Mrs. Jensen holds a Master’s degree in political and economic science from The University of Copenhagen. She was Chief economist at the Danish part of Nordea Bank, Director of the Danish Employers’ Confederation and Chief Editor of “Berlingske Tidende” before being elected to the European Parliament 1999-2014 representing Venstre, part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe.

Throughout her mandate she was member of the Committee on Budgets and General rapporteur for the Commission budget 2014. Between 2005-2011 she was substitute member of the Committee of Transport and Tourism.

She has since 2014 been involved in local politics, and has been chairwoman of the European Movement in Denmark. She is also currently chairwoman of the Danish Churches Abroad.

Mrs Anne Elisabet Jensen, European Coordinator
move-baltic-adriatic-etc@ec.europa.eu 

Mr Marcin Wójcik, Adviser of the European Coordinator
Marcin.Wojcik@ec.europa.eu

Postal address:
Baltic-Adriatic ETC / TEN-T
Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport
Rue de Mot 28
1049 Brussels
Belgium

Maps

Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Corridor Compliance Maps

Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Corridor map

Workplans

1st Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Corridor work plan

2nd Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Corridor work plan

3rd Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Corridor work plan

4th Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Corridor work plan

5th Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Corridor work plan

Studies

Baltic-Adriatic Core Network Corridor Study (2014)

Project List Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Corridor (2014)

Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Corridor study (2017)

Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Corridor study abstract (2017)

Project List Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Corridor (2017)

2018-2022 Studies on the Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Core Network Corridors and Support of the European Coordinators - Phase 2 / Final report (2022)

2018-2022 Studies on the Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Core Network Corridors and Support of the European Coordinators - Phase 2 / Project Implementation Report 1/2022 (2022)

2018-2022 Studies on the Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Core Network Corridors and Support of the European Coordinators - Phase 2 / Project Implementation Report 1/2023 (2023)

2018-2023 Studies on the Baltic-Adriatic TEN-T Core Network Corridors and Support of the European Coordinators - Phase 2 / Phase 3 / Final report (2023)