On 19 January Baltic Ports Organisation and TransBaltic hosted together a debate to tackle upon the TEN-T and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) proposals and their consequences for the Baltic Sea ports. The participants representing ports, port associations, regional authorities and transport ministries all agreed to that the dual layer approach to the TEN-T is a good solution. [Read more]

TransBaltic partners Ma-Co (Maritime Competenzcentrum and SEP (SynergyEuropaPartner) responsible for the task “Capacity Building in transport operations” are launching a survey target at organisations dealing with vocational education matters and demands in the transport and logistics sector. [Read more]

Region Blekinge/Sweden has, in the ambition of creating an action plan for sustainable transport developments in their region by 2030 (with an outlook to 2050), prepared a report highlighting some aspects of the transport system in Blekinge and the outcomes of discussions on the topic with regional stakeholders in both public and private sector. [Read more]

The European Commission arranged for the fourth time a conference dedicated to the Trans European Transport Network (TEN-T). [Read more]

Download: TransBaltic Newsletter No 13 In this issue  –  Emergency terminals for rail freight transport - Lack of confidence in railways’ ability to deliver acceptable quality of freight transport is one of several reasons for the small volumes of rail freight transport between Norway and other countries in the Baltic Sea Region. [Read more]