Rhine Danube TrendLine

Objective

The Rhine-Danube Corridor starts in the northern German cities of Wilhelmshaven, Bremen, Hamburg and Rostock and continues to towards Hannover, Berlin, Hannover, and on to Prague. Where the Northern corridor axis meets with the Eastern axis that starts in the German cities of Frankfurt and Kalsruhe going east to Prague and Munich respectively. The former is further connected to Strasbourg and leads via Austria, Slovakia and Hungary to the Romanian ports of Constanta and Galati. The axis provides a connection to Slovakia and further extends to Lviv in Ukraine. It covers rail, road, airports, ports, RRTs and the inland waterway system of the Elbe main river, Elbe Lateral Canal, Elbe Mittellandkanal, Weser, Sleusenkanal, and Vltava river in the northern part of the corridor and the Main, Main-Danube Canal, the entire Danube downstream of Kelheim and the Váh, Sava and Tisa river.

Description

The Rhine-Danube Core Network Corridor is the transport backbone linking Central and South-Eastern Europe. Running from the Strasbourg area and South-West Germany to the Romanian ports of the Black Sea and the Slovak-Ukrainian border (in two distinct branches), it comprises intermediate sections in nine Member States, and connects them to neighbouring countries Serbia,Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldova and Ukraine. Except for France, Germany and Austria, the other six Member States (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania) have also access to the ESIF Fund. Several segments of the Rhine-Danube Core Network Corridor are shared with the Orient-East Med Corridor. The Corridor includes around 5,800 km of rail network, 4,500km of roads and 3,900 km of waterways

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