The budget allotted for the nine transport corridors amounts to EUR26 billion, the Commission said in a statement Thursday.
Romania is part of transport corridors Orient/East-Med and Rhine-Danube.
The Orient/East-Med Corridor connects the maritime interfaces of the North, Baltic, Black and Mediterranean seas, optimizing the use of the ports concerned and improving the multimodal connections between Northern Germany, the Czech Republic, the Pannonian region and Southeast Europe, according to the EC. The corridor extends, across the sea, from Greece to Cyprus.
From the budget allotted to this corridor, Romania may obtain financing for the Arad-Timisoara-Arad railway and to upgrade the road linking Vidin to Craiova.
The Rhine-Danube Corridor connects the central regions around Strasbourg and Frankfurt via Southern Germany to Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and the Black Sea. Romania may access funds for several railway and waterway projects.
The seven other transport corridors included in the strategy are: the North Sea-Mediterranean Corridor, the Atlantic Corridor, the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor, the Mediterranean Corridor, the North Sea-Baltic Corridor, the Rhine-Alpine Corridor and the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor.