North Sea-Mediterranean Corridor

Description - North Sea-Mediterranean Transport Corridor (Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France).

The North Sea-Mediterranean Multimodal Transport Corridor, formerly called the Rail Freight Corridor, runs through Ireland, the United Kingdom (Scotland, Edinburgh, BREXIT), the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France (Lyon, ports of Marseille and Fos-sur-mer), bordering the France-Germany border.

1. Multimodal corridor: rail, road, sea and air transport
2. Waterways: Maas, Rhine, Scheldt, Seine, Saone and Rhone
3. Main ports connected by the North Sea-Mediterranean Transport Corridor: Antwerp and Rotterdam
4. Access to important industrial centres: Basel, Ghent, Liège, Lorraine, Pas de Calais, Île-de-France and Lyon
5. Length: 3.047 km

The North Sea-Mediterranean freight railway corridor connects the main European ports (Antwerp, Rotterdam, Dunkirk, Zeebrugge and Marseille) with the industrial areas of Western Europe:

1. More than 30,000 trains per year
2. 20 million tons of cargo transported

Countries in the influence area of the North Sea-Mediterranean Corridor: Switzerland (Basel), Italy (passing through Switzerland), Spain

European regional economic communities related to the North Sea-Mediterranean Transport Corridor (Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France)

1. European Union
   1. European Single Market
   2. Economic and Monetary Union
   3. European Economic and Social Committee
   4. European Investment Bank
   5. EU Services Directive
   6. European Digital Single Market
   7. European Customs Union
   8. European External Action Service
   9. Union Customs Code
   10. As a members of the UE, Ireland, the United Kingdom (BREXIT), the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France are beneficiaries of the EU Free trade agreements with Algeria, Ivory Coast, South Africa, South Korea, India, Mexico, MERCOSUR, Chile, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia etc. besides the Customs Union with Turkey
2. The United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands are a members of the
   1. Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
   2. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
   3. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
   4. Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS)
   5. Association of Caribbean States (ACS) (observers)
3. The United Kingdom (BREXIT) is a member of:
   1. The Commonwealth
   2. The United Kingdom is an observer country in the Indian-Ocean Rim Association (IORA)
4. Belgium: headquarters of the
   1. International Road Transport Union (IRU)
   2. International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport (UIRR)
5. France is a member of:
   1. Indian Ocean Commission (Reunion Islands)
   2. International Organisation of the Francophonie
   3. African Union (AU)
6. Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
7. Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)
8. Africa-European Union Strategic Partnership

The main religion of the region of the North Sea-Mediterranean Transport Corridor (Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France) is Christianity (Catholicism, Protestantism and Anglicanism)

The North Sea-Mediterranean Transport Corridor (Ireland, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France) belongs to the European Economic Area

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3. Afghanistan-Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey Transport Corridor (Lapis Lazuli)
4. New Silk Route
5. Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor
6. Asia-Africa Growth Corridor
7. Almaty-Bishkek Economic Corridor
8. China-Central Asia-Western-Asia Economic Corridor
9. Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Iran Transport Corridor (KTAI-ECO)
10. Islamabad-Tehran-Istanbul Rail and Road Corridor (ITI-ECO)
11. China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
12. Trans-Caspian Trade and Transit Corridor (Central Corridor)
13. Nanning-Singapore Economic Corridor
14. India-Chabahar (Iran)-Afghanistan Economic Corridor
15. Trans-Siberian Railway (Russia, Mongolia, China, North Korea)
16. International North-South Transport Corridor
17. China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor
18. International Transport and Transit Corridor of the Ashgabat Agreement