Until 2030 a total of nine rail freight corridors will be created in Europe. Two of these corridors run through Austria. They are fully operational and have been inaugurated on February 23rd.
At least three EU-Member States are connected through these transeuropean cargo corridors. In addition there is an organisational structure to facilitate far-reaching cooperation of all parties involved and to unify technical, operational and organisational rules. The pan-European target is to promote rail cargo transport and increase the competitiveness of the railway as opposed to road transport.
Within the ÖBB the freight corridors are important to ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG, but also for the Rail Cargo Group, which needs well-organized and powerful European freight corridors to achieve its volume targets.
Koralm tunnel is a key project for the European cargo transport network. The new southern line is a diagonal link of European countries, passing through Austria, and also the relaunch of an ancient trading route between the Baltic and the Adriatic Sea. The Baltic-Adriatic cargo transport corridor is directly connected to the port of Koper (Slovenia), the most important port for cargo transport in Austria (a landlocked country). Two thirds of the cargo volume is transhipped on the railway there.
Rail freight corridors passing through Austria: Baltic-Adriatic Corridor (Southern Route), Scandinavia-Mediterranean Corridor (Lower Inn Valley and Brenner Routes), Rhine-Danube Corridor (Western and Eastern Routes) and Orient/East Med Corridor (Northern and Eastern Routes).
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