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.
Multimodal corridor: rail, road, sea and air transport
Waterways: Maas, Rhine, Scheldt, Seine, Saone and Rhone
Main ports connected by the North Sea-Mediterranean Transport
Corridor: Antwerp and Rotterdam
Access to important industrial centers: Basel, Ghent, Liège,
Lorraine, Pas de Calais, Île-de-France and Lyon
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:
More than 30,000 trains per year
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.
European Union
European Single Market
Economic and Monetary Union
European Investment Bank
EU Services Directive
European Digital Single Market
European Customs Union
Union Customs Code
The UK, France and the Netherlands are a members of the
Inter-American Development Bank
Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC)
Economic Commission for Asia (ESCAP)
Council of the Baltic Sea States
ACS (observers)
The UK (BREXIT) is a member of:
The Commonwealth
The UK is an observer country at the Indian-Ocean Rim Association (IORA)