European corridors

The government appointed a commissioner for the Mediterranean Corridor to coordinate the follow-up of the works that are carried out on this line.

The Mediterranean Corridor office has designed a tool that allows you to consult all the progress and ongoing projects.

The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility has appointed a commissioner for the Atlantic Corridor to promote the development of infrastructure and rail services along this corridor.

The EU has a management tool to enhance the competitiveness of rail transport compared to other modes of transportation: Rail Freight Corridors, specific freight corridors. There are currently eleven. 

The RFCs partially coincide with the CNC Corridors, and their purpose is to facilitate common governance of these routes so that through a One-Stop Shop the railway companies can request a train route from one end of the Corridor to the other, without having to negotiate with each country through which it passes.

Of these, two pass through Spain and involve the participation of Adif. They are, on the one hand, the Atlantic rail freight corridor (formerly known as rail freight corridor no. 4), and the Mediterranean rail freight corridor (formerly known as rail freight corridor no. 6).

Both corridors now have an operational One-Stop Shop. The one for the Atlantic Corridor is in Madrid, and the one for the Mediterranean Corridor is in Milan (Italy). The aim is to deal with, process and coordinate the international freight path requests that these corridors will manage.

Adif, together with seven other partners from five countries, forms part of the Corridor: Spain (Adif), France (SNCF Réseau), Italy (RFI), Slovenia (ASZ), Hungary (MAV), Croatia (HZ Infrastruktura), the Figueras-Perpignan line, and Hungary’s capacity allocator (VPE). The Mediterranean Corridor's One-Stop Shop is located in Milan, Italy.

The Mediterranean Rail Freight Corridor, which connects at different points to 6 other european freight corridors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7), runs along more than 7,000 kilometers of the route:

• Almería–Valencia / Algeciras / Madrid–Zaragoza / Barcelona–Marseille–Lyon–Turin–Milan–Verona–Padua / Venice–Trieste / Koper–Ljubljana / Rijeka–Zagreb–Budapest–Záhony (Ukraine–Hungary border)

Adif and the infrastructure managers of Portugal (IP), France (SNCF Réseau) and Germany (DB Netz AG) make up this corridor whose One-Stop Shop is located in Madrid.

A proposal for the revision of Regulation 1315/2013 on the development of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) is currently being processed within the European Commission (EC).

According to the proposed text, the European Corridors (CNC) would be integrated along with the Rail Freight Corridors (RFC), with both concepts encompassed —if the current proposal is approved— within the so-called European Transport Corridors (ETC).

The following link to the European Commission website includes the proposal for the new regulation.