Baltic-Adriatic Trend Line

Objective

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.

Description

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.

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