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Transport Corridor

The creation and operations of international rail, road and sea routes, co-ordinated to transport cargo long distances, usually international and designed to benefit all participating countries. For example, the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (TITR), also known as the Middle Corridor; and the European Union’s Ten-T network.

An area where one or more modes of transport operate and share a common course and specifics of freight transportation. Transport corridors can generate wider economic benefits and costs through their effects on a potentially diverse set of development outcomes.

This topic is key for ports in Southern Europe, the Caspian Sea and Central Asia – developing trade between Europe and Asia.

New berths for general cargo, grain and oil in Iran’s Anzali port

Anzali, Iran (PortSEurope) November 19, 2020 – Several new projects have been inaugurated in the Iran’s Caspian Sea port of Anzali, 370 km north of the...

Turkmenbashi seeks to restart ferry connections with Makhachkala and expand transit corridors

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (PortSEurope) November 16, 2020 – Dagestan is considering a proposal to resume a ferry service between the Caspian Sea ports...

Aggressive Balkan expansion of Thessaloniki Port starts with an intermodal dry port in Sofia

Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) November 13, 2020 – Thessaloniki Port Authority (ThPA) has started a hinterland expansion with its first intermodal...

Valenciaport warns of the danger of not having double track for Valencia-Castellón and Sagunto-Zaragoza trains

The ports of Sagunto and València are strategic intermodal platforms to facilitate connectivity with the Mediterranean corridor – November 11, 2020...

Azerbaijan and Turkey gain a direct road link from the Nagorno-Karabakh war

Baku, Azerbaijan (PortSEurope) November 10, 2020 – Lost in the small print of the ceasefire deal between Azerbaijan and Armenia, that ended six weeks of...

Kazakh ships to gain faster access to Russian rivers for shipment of goods from and to Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan

Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) November 9, 2020 – Kazakhstani companies will gain faster and easier access to inland waterways (navigable rivers) in Russia...

Kazakh Caspian Sea ports operations unaffected by COVID-19

Aktau, Kazakhstan (PortSEurope) November 9, 2020 – More than 1.6 million tons of cargo were handled between Kazakhstan’s ports in the Caspian Sea in the...

Barcelona and Civitavecchia ports BClink project draws to a close

Civitavecchia, Italy (PortSEurope) October 27, 2020 – The BClink project, designed to step up Motorways of the Sea connections between the ports of...

Ceneri Tunnel turns Genoa into a fast rail gateway to Europe

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 3, 2020 – The inauguration of the Ceneri Base Tunnel (CBT), part of the new Railway Link through the Alps (NRLA),...

European Coordinator of the Baltic Adriatic Corridor on a virtual visit to Ravenna port

Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) November 2, 2020 – On 29 October, Anne Jensen, European Coordinator of the Baltic Adriatic Corridor, visited the Port of...

Analysis – Could DP World and Maersk prevent China from taking over all Haifa Bay ports?

Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) November 2, 2020 – At the end of October, Israel Shipyards Industries together with Dubai-based DP World submitted a...

Madrid-Barcelona port rail links set for investment

Barcelona, Spain (PortSEurope) October 26, 2020 – Madrid and Barcelona have agreed funding improvement to railways linking the two cities. Puertos del...

The Khaf-Herat railway set to link Iran and Afghanistan

Tehran, Iran (PortSEurope) October 19, 2020 – The Chairman of Afghanistan’s Peace Council Abdullah Abdullah has said that the Khaf-Herat railway is...

EBRD to lend €450 million to develop road-port connections

Kiev, Ukriane (PortSEurope) October 14, 2020 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), an international financial institution, is to...

Poland and Ukraine agree to develop transport corridor

Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) October 14, 2020 – Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) and the Seaport of Gdansk JSC have signed a memorandum of intent to...

Kotlin Shipping Company to start container service linking Europe via Caspian Sea

Moscow, Russia (PortSEurope) October 14, 2020 – The Kotlin Shipping Company will start a container service linking the EU and Russia with Asia via the...

New Genoa-Melzo rail Fast Corridor – Contship

On Thursday, September 3, Rail Hub Milano received from the Italian Customs agency the authorization to activate the new Genoa-Melzo Fast Corridor. Several...

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