Rail Baltica

The TEN-T and CEF Regulations

Rail Baltica is a strong strategic component in the North Sea-Baltic corridor, attempting to create new traffic flows in a North/South direction on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea and connect them to the well-established West/East flows between the North Sea ports, Berlin and Warsaw. The Rail Baltic is a missing link to ensure that there is no gauge break between different Member States.

Without the full implementation of the Rail Baltic line, the flow of goods and services from the rest of the Single Market cannot pass easily by rail into the Baltic States and on to Finland or vice versa. The North Sea-Baltic Corridor cannot operate at its full potential if the situation of two different gauges would remain in place.

One of the most strategic missing links to the trans-European transport network (TEN-T), as well as a vital element of the North-Sea Baltic Corridor, which has an important impact in providing for the free movement of people and goods within and across borders, reducing CO2 emissions, fostering regional socio-economic development, creating additional employment and generating GDP growth.

The project involves building new infrastructure and high-speed railways with ERTMS will be used. The Rail Baltica project can be an effective response to the marginalization of North-South rail transport due to many historical incidents. Poland wants to transfer some of its transport of goods to railways, which could have a positive impact on environmental protection in particularly ecologically sensitive areas of north-eastern Poland through which this route runs.

• European Commission,
• RB Rail AS,
• Ministries responsible for transport,
• railway infrastructure managers.