Pan-European corridors

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Map of the ten Pan-European transport corridors
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Map of the ten Pan-European transport corridors

The ten Pan-European transport corridors were defined at the second Pan-European transport Conference in Crete, March 1994, as routes in Central and Eastern Europe that required major investment over the next ten to fifteen years. Additions were made at the third conference in Helsinki in 1997. Therefore, these corridors are sometimes referred to as the "Crete corridors" or "Helsinki corridors", regardless of their geographical locations. A tenth corridor was proposed after the end of hostilities between the states of the former Yugoslavia.

These development corridors are distinct from the Trans-European transport networks, which include all major established routes in the European Union, although there are proposals to combine the two systems.

I (North-South) Helsinki - Tallinn - Riga - Kaunas and Klaipėda - Warsaw and Gdańsk
  • Branch A (Via/Rail Hanseatica) - Riga to Kaliningrad to Gdańsk
  • Via Baltica (E 67) - Helsinki to Warsaw.
II (East-West) Berlin - Poznań - Warsaw - Brest - Minsk - Smolensk - Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod
III Brussels - Aachen - Köln - Dresden - Wrocław - Katowice - Kraków - Lviv - Kiev
IV Dresden/Nuremberg - Prague - Vienna - Bratislava - Győr - Budapest - Arad - Bucharest - Constanţa / Craiova - Sofia - Thessaloniki / Plovdiv - Istanbul.
V (East-West) Venice - Trieste/Koper - Ljubljana - Maribor - Budapest - Uzhhorod - Lviv - Kiev. 1600 km long.
VI (North-South) Gdańsk - Katowice - Žilina, with a western branch Katowice-Brno.
VII (The Danube River) (Northwest-Southeast) - 2,300 km long.
VIII Durrës - Tirana - - Skopje - Bitola - Sofia - Dimitrovgrad - Burgas - Varna. 1300 km long.
IX Helsinki - Vyborg - St. Petersburg - Pskov - Moscow - Kaliningrad - Kiev - Ljubashevka/Rozdilna (Ukraine) - Chişinău - Bucharest - Dimitrovgrad - Alexandroupolis. A branch runs from Ljubashevka/Rozdilna to Odesa. 3,400 km long.
X Salzburg - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Beograd - Niš - Skopje - Veles - Thessaloniki.

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