Western Balkans-Eastern Mediterranean corridor

The new Western Balkans - Eastern Mediterranean (WBEM) Corridor links central European Member States with the ports of the Adriatic and East Mediterranean Seas via the Western Balkans. It runs through the eight EU Member States of Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus and Italy, as well as Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo* (* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 (1999) and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.), Albania and North Macedonia. The corridor connects all capital cities except Vienna and Rome. The WBEM Corridor is multimodal but it does not include any inland waterways. Cyprus also does not have a railway network. The WBEM European Transport Corridor contains parts of the former Orient/East-Med corridor (in Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece and Cyprus) as well as of the Rail Freight Corridors as described in the previous section. It overlaps in parts with the Mediterranean, the Rhine – Danube, the Baltic Sea – Black Sea – Aegean Sea and the Baltic Sea – Adriatic Sea corridors.