Orient-East Med Corridor Presentation of the corridor work plan by the European Coordinator Mr. Mathieu GROSCH OEM Corridor characteristics 5.900 km rail, 5.600 km roads and 1.600km IWW 9 Member States 15 core urban nodes 15 core airports 10 inland ports 12 Maritime ports 25 RRT 1
Corridor non compliance with TEN-T standards KPI n Unit of measurement Benchmark value 1 % of electrified railway length 90% 2 % of railway length compliant for 22.5 t axle load at 100 kmh 71% 3 % of railway length compliant for 740 m long trains 54% 4a 4b % of line length with ETCS and GSM-R deployment % of line length with ETCS and GSM-R deployment GSM-R: 49% ETCS: 10% 5 % of compliant Class IV sections with sufficient draught 43% 6 % of RIS services deployed DE: 50%, CZ: 55% 7 % length of express roads and motorways with grade separated junctions 82% 8 % of road length of ITS deployment n.a. 9 % of core seaports deploying VTMIS, PCS, etc. 67% 10 % of core seaports connected to existing rail network 80% 11 % of core IWW ports connected to existing rail network 100% 12 % of all core airports connected to existing heavy rail network 40% 13 % of seaports offering alternative fuels 0% 14 % of IWW ports offering alternativefuels 0% 15 % of core airports offering alternativefuels 0% 16 Number of alternativeclean fuels stations at OEM roads (July 2014) n=412 Status of Rail infrastructure differences on the OEM corridor(an example..) A train travelling from Athens (GR) to Hamburg (DE) would have to comply with the following standards: Locs equipped with 7 different signaling systems or change 6 times the loc! Even if Loc equipped with 3 current capacities, 4 times to be replaced by a diesel loc! Maximum lenght of train of 600m (instead of 740m), except in BU sections where max length is 445m Max axle load of 20 T Loc would run at max 80km/h on 510km! 2
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Critical issues on the OEM Corridor(1) River Elbe and its insufficient navigability conditions (draught, network, bridge clearances, lock chambers..) in DE and CZ Rail Cross border and capacity. 3 critical issues: Dresden-Prague existing rail line (DE-CZ) Brno-Györ (CZ-AT / SK-HU) with technical bottlenecks at border crossings Békéscsaba Thessaloniki (HU-RO-BG-EL) heterogeneous technical characteristics, Maritime ports. Intermodality key critical issue for connections (rail + road) with the hinterland and supply chain, + interoperability of e-maritime services 4
Critical issues on the OEM Corridor(2) Intermodality: rail-road terminals and ports/airports, Missing links to be adressed inside the corridor alignment. ERTMS low implementation rate and railway interoperability Traffic management systems and interoperability issues Technical, Organisational and administrative bottlenecks RIS interoperability issues and further deployment High investment needs 280 investments have been identified which would be needed for the development of the Orient East-Med Corridor by 2030 Estimated total volume of investments of around 47.4 billion EUR (at 2014 prices) 25,6 billion must be spent on critical issues (as far as costs are known) Approx. 15,8 billion of these costs for critical issues are still to be financed Prioritisation of investments is of utmost importance and a competitive planning and financing framework needs to be set up 5
Corridor priorities (1) Investing in cross-border links and bottlenecks both for rail and IWW with highest European added-value; Ensuring the timely implementation and improve capacity issues of the major rail projects on (from N to S) Railway infrastructure improvements around Bremerhaven and Bremen Dresden/Prague (HSL) to allow smoother interconnection between DE and CZ link between Brno/Breclav Békéscsaba Thessaloniki (HU-RO-BG-EL) to allow a continuity of the Corridor from Northern ports DE to the southern ports of GR Improvements on the Budapest node along the Praha-Ceska Trebova section Rehabilitation of the Craiova-Calafat link in Romania to connect to the Bulgarian border to Sofia via Vidin. Bulgaria-Athens link via Vidin-Kulata and Promachonas. Construction of the double track HSL between Tithorea and Domokos connecting the ports of Igoumenitsa and Piraeus. Finishing works between Athens and Patras Corridor priorities (2) Investing in ERTMS along the corridor Improve and develop the navigability of the Elbe with construction planning and modernisation of locks and inland ports Key element of the Gezamtkonzept Elbe Encourage results from the existing dialogue between DE/CZ Studies and infra works between Usti nad Labem (CZ)-Melnik and Pardubice. Developing the last mile connection and hinterland of the maritime ports building the start and end point of the corridor; Implement alternative fuels and improved ITS/VTMIS in ports Ports North DE continue implementation of alternative fuels Port of Heraklion (VTMIS) 6
Corridor priorities (3) Improving cargo storage capacity in the Port of Lemesos (CY) Implement MoS standards to improve maritime transport between the continent and islands (GR, Creta and Cyprus) Giving due attention to the development of the urban nodes; Improve airports inter-modality and heaving rail connections Airport of Budapest, Bratislava and Praha Airport of Larnaka intermodal multimodal terminal Roads projects improvements Upgrading of the M15/M1 border junction between Rajka(HU) and Hegyeshalom (SK) Express road R52 between CZ and Austria Lefkosia Lemesos soith orbital ring + bottlenecks between Lemesos and Lefkosia motorway. Thank you for your attention 7