BRK SYSTEMS SRL – RO CITY NET SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CENTER – SR TRANSPORT & TRAFFIC INSTITUTE - SI

July 2nd, 2015 Plaza Hotel Ljubljana, Slovenia 10th STEERING GROUP MEETING

Slovenia – Croatia - Serbia – Romania Koper (North Adriatic Sea) - Constantza (Black Sea) “TRAIANUS” Rail Freight Corridor Project Proposal EUSDR Priority area 1b: “To improve mobility and multimodality: rail, road and air transport”

Roman Empire under Imperator Traianus (98 - 117 A.C.)

“Este trebuitoare totus Romaniei acea mare cale ferata care ajungand la Adriatica sa o invecineasca cu noi si cu Europa occidentala”. Roma si Romania in antichitate”. Ettore PAIS (1915)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ettore_Pais Ettore Pais (July 27, 1856, Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy – 1939, Rome) was an ancient historian, Latin epigrapher, and an Italian politician. He taught courses in Paris at the Sorbonne, in Bucharest, Prague, Madrid, Barcelona, Boston, Cambridge, New York, and Chicago.

CONTENTS EU Transport Politics

EuroAsia Projects Euro - Med Projects

EU Projects

“TRAIANUS” RFC Project

European Commission http://ec.europa.eu/transport/themes/infrastructure/index_en.htm TEN-T CORE NETWORK CORRIDORS – 2013 map

• Baltic - Adriatic Corridor (Gdynia – Ljubljana – Koper/Trieste); • Med. Corridor (Algeciras - Barcelona Trieste/Koper - Ljubljana – Zagreb – Budapest – UA border); • Orient-East Med Corridor (Hamburg - Berlin - Budapest Arad - Timisoara - Craiova Calafat - Vidin - Sofia Burgas/TR border); •Rhine-Danube Corridor (Strasbourg - … - Nürnberg – Regensburg – Passau Wien/Bratislava – Budapest – Arad – Braşov/Craiova – Bucureşti – Constanţa – Sulina).

Infrastructure - TEN-T - Extending the networks beyond the EU 1. Motorways of the Seas: to link the Baltic, Barents, Atlantic (including Outermost Regions of Canary Islands, Azores and Madeira), Mediterranean, Black and the Caspian Sea areas as well as the littoral countries within the sea areas and with an extension through the Suez Canal towards the Red Sea; 2. Northern axis: to connect the northern EU with Norway to the north and with Belarus and Russia to the east. A connection to the Barents region linking Norway through Sweden and Finland with Russia is also foreseen; 3. Central axis: to link the centre of the EU to Ukraine and the Black Sea and through an inland waterway connection to the Caspian Sea. A direct connection from Ukraine to the Trans-Siberian railway and a link from the Don/Volga inland waterway to the Baltic Sea are also included; 4. South Eastern axis: to link the EU with the Balkans and Turkey and further with the Southern Caucasus and the Caspian Sea as well as with the Middle East up to Egypt and the Red Sea; 5. South Western axis: to connect the south-western EU with Switzerland and Morocco, including the trans-Maghrebian link connecting Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and its extension to Egypt.

EU TRANSPORT POLITICS REGULATION (EU) No 913/2010 concerning a European rail network for competitive freight REGULATION (EU) No 1316/2013 establishing the Connecting Europe Facility, amending Reg. (EU) No 913/2010 Article 4&5 - Criteria for further freight corridors (a) the crossing by the freight corridor of the territory of at least three Member States, or of two Member States if the distance between the terminals served by the freight corridor is greater than 500 km; (b) the consistency of the freight corridor with the TEN-T, the ERTMS corridors and/or the corridors defined by RNE; (c) the integration of TEN-T priority projects into the freight corridor; (d) the balance between the socio-economic costs and benefits stemming from the establishment of the freight corridor; (e) the consistency of all of the freight corridors proposed by the Member States in order to set up a European rail network for competitive freight; (f) the development of rail freight traffic and major trade flows and goods traffic along the freight corridor; (g) if appropriate, better interconnections between Member States and European third countries; (h) the interest of the applicants in the freight corridor; (i) the existence of good interconnections with other modes of transport, in particular due to an adequate network of terminals, including in maritime and inland ports.

EU Strategy for the Danube Region http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/cooperate/danube/index_en.cfm#5 http://www.danube-region.eu/ Priority Areas PA 1A – Mobility – Waterways Priority Area 1A “To improve mobility and intermodality of inland waterways” is coordinated by Austria and Romania. PA 1B – Mobility – Rail – Road – Air Priority Area 1B “To improve mobility and intermodality – rail, road and air” is coordinated by Slovenia and Serbia.

Member States: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia Accession Countries: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro Neighbourhood Countries: Moldova, Ukraine

EU Strategy for the Danube Region - Priority Area 1B – Rail – Road - Air TARGETS The Priority Area 1b Steering Group amended these three exemplary targets so that the final wordings of exemplary targets for EUSDR Priority Area 1b are as follows: -… – … possible inclusion of a new corridor with added value of linking together the EU and non-EU member states' railway systems; – Development of efficient multimodal terminals at Danube river ports and dry ports to connect inland waterways with rail and road and air transport by 2020.

ACTIONS Action (1) - “To bring to completion the TEN-T (rail and road) Priority Projects crossing the Danube Region, overcoming the difficulties and the bottlenecks including environmental, economic and political, particularly in the cross-border sections”. Action (2) - “To implement the Rail Freight Corridors forming part of the European rail network for competitive freight”.

Action (4) - “To ensure sustainable metropolitan transport systems and mobility”. Action (5) - “To improve the regional/ local cross-border infrastructure and the access to rural areas”. Action (6) - “To develop further nodal planning for multimodality”. Action (7) - “To develop further Intelligent Traffic Systems by using environmental friendly technologies, especially in urban regions”.

BSEC - Black Sea Economic Co-operation Working together towards peace, stability and prosperity in the Black Sea region Member States: Republic of Albania, Republic of Armenia, Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Bulgaria, Georgia, Hellenic Republic, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, Republic of Serbia, Republic of Turkey, Ukraine. Trade and Economic Development - Meeting of the Working Group on Trade and Economic Development (BSEC Headquarters, 24 September 2014) Sectorial and industrial cooperation -The 3rd Black Sea Ports and Shipping 2014 Meeting (Istanbul, 3-4 September 2014) - 8th International Black Sea Container Summit 2014 and the International Seminar to Study Possibilities Regarding Cooperation on Intermodal Transportation in the Black Sea Region (Odessa, 10-12 September 2014) - Meeting of the Working Group on Transport (BSEC Headquarters, 13-14 October 2014) - Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Development of the Motorways of the Sea (BSEC Headquarters, 30 September 2014) - Black Sea Transport Forum 2014 (Odessa, 21-23 October 2014) - Meeting of the Ministers in charge of Transport (Thessaloniki, 25 November 2014)

Trieste/Koper (North Adriatic Sea) – Divaca – Ljubljana – Dobova s.b. – Zagreb – Tovarnik/Sid s.b. – Belgrade – Vrsac/Stamora Moravica s.b. - Timisoara – Craiova – Bucuresti – Constantza (Black Sea)

Former Pan-European Xth Corridor Former Pan-European Vth Corridor TRAIANUS Rail Freight Corridor

Border points that could service the ferry-boat lines; - Constanta Ferry-boat (Romania) - Illichivsk (Ukraine) - Istanbul, Derince, Samsun, Trabzon (Turkey) and - Poti, Batumi (Georgia). DIUM distances: - Romania Constantza Ferry-Boat Fr. – Bucuresti - Stamora Moravitza Fr.: 793km; - Serbia Vrsac Gr. – Beograd - Sid Gr.: 252km; - Croatia Tovarnik Gr. – Zagreb – Savski Marof Gr.: 327km; - Slovenia Dobova Gr. – Ljubljana – Divaca – Koper Luka: 265km. Total: 1637km

European Union Association Agreements and Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area

Georgia AA & DCFTA (signed on 27 June 2014) Moldova AA and DCFTA (signed on 27 June 2014) Ukraine AA & DCFTA (political provisions of the AA signed on 21 March 2014, remaining provisions and DCFTA signed on 27 June 2014) Romania/EU – Turkey political/economical relations: -March 14, 2013 - Action plan for Romania-Turkey Strategic Partnership that provides for cooperation in the areas of economy, energy and European affairs.

Union for the Mediterranean http://ufmsecretariat.org/ UfM Countries: Austria, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, The Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, Tunisia, The United Kingdom, Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Luxemburg, Mauritania, Montenegro, The Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Syria, Turkey.

TRACECA - Transport Corridor Europe-Caucasus-Asia Member countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Romania, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan LPG Summit held on 19-20 November 2014, in Belgrade, Serbia TRACECA Corridor as one of Mutually Beneficial Options for LPG Delivery to the Countries of Western and Eastern Europe

Dipl. Eng. Valentin-Nicolae BERCA Mobile Phone: 00 40 723 620013 E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] • General Manager SC BRK SYSTEMS SRL • President of Technical Committee of Romanian Standardization Association CT 4 – Railway Electric Traction – ASRO • President of Technical Committee of Romanian Standardization Association CT 345 – Intelligent Transport Systems – Smart Cities - ASRO •Member of Technical Committee of Romanian Standardization Association CT 146 – Railway Applications – ASRO

Many thanks for your kind attention! Valentin BERCA