Supporting the Mediterranean Corridor. A note from the Eurispes Observatory on Infrastructure, Transport and Logistics*
During the seminar “Transport and Logistics in the Western Mediterranean” – promoted by Eurispes in cooperation with the Generalitad de Catalugna, the European research centres IEMed and CETMO and Confitarma – the current status of the Mediterranean Corridor and possible perspectives for its implementation were analysed.
With its proposal to revise the TEN-T core network corridor (EU Regulation COM (2022) 380 final), the European Commission intends to move the final terminal from Budapest to Zagreb by accentuating the weight of the West-East corridors north of the Alps connecting the North Sea and Baltic ports with Poland and Ukraine on the Rotterdam-Hamburg-Gdansk route towards Warsaw-Budapest and the Ukrainian border. In this scenario, the economic centre of gravity of the single market would shift towards central Europe with obvious marginalisation effects on Mediterranean ports connected to the CM and the economies of Mediterranean countries (Spain, France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia).
With the support of the other countries bordering the Mediterranean – Greece, Spain, Malta, Cyprus, Portugal, France – Italy can reaffirm its role as a strategic territorial platform and regain ground in the new economic processes, remaining a protagonist in the relaunch of Europe.
Going in this direction, Italy should support the negotiation already started by the Government of Spain and the Catalan region to confirm the Mediterranean Corridor in the route decided in the TEN-T Reg. 1315/2013, also in order to enhance as a strategic axis the new Turin-Lyon (TAV) line connected to the ports of Genoa and Trieste with the HS Turin-Milan-Venice-Trieste line and accelerate the implementation of the Trieste-Divaca-Ljubljana cross-border project towards Slovenia and Croatia (read more).
*edited by Giampaolo Basoli, member of the Eurispes Scientific Committee on Infrastructure, Transport and Logistics.
