Poland on the crossroads of transcontinental transport routes in the middle of Europe

1. Polandon the crossroads of transcontinental transport routes in the middle of Europe MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND Warsaw, June 2007

2. Poland on the crossroads of transcontinental transport routes in the middle of Europe Cities hosting IRU Conferences: • Irkutsk – 2001, • Teheran – 2003, • Beijing – 2005, • Warsaw - 2007

3. Poland on the crossroads of transcontinental transport routes in the middle of Europe Corridor II Warsaw Irkutsk E 20 E 30 Corridor III POLAND E 40 E 40 E 50 Beijing E 50 Teheran TRACECA Intercontinental rail routes connecting Poland with Central Asia and the Far East

4. Poland on the crossroads of transcontinental transport routes in the middle of Europe Corridor I „Via Baltica” Corridor VI Corridor IA Central-European Transport Corridor ROADS Corridor II Euro-Asian Northern Axis Corridor II Euro-Asian Northern Axis Corridor III Euro-Asian Central Axis The Gdańsk – Odesa Corridor Central-European Transport Corridor Corridor III Euro-Asian Central Axis Corridor VI

5. Poland on the crossroads of transcontinental transport routes in the middle of Europe Strengths of Poland in transcontinental transit: The following four Pan-European Transport Corridors (PETC), established by the Ministers of Transport of European countries in 1994 – 1997, run through the Polish territory: – PETC I: Helsinki – Tallin – Riga – Kaunas – Warszawa / Kaliningrad - Gdańsk; – PETC II: Berlin – Warszawa – Minsk – Moskva – Niżnij Novgorod; – PETC III: Dresden – Wrocław – Katowice – Kraków – Lviv – Kyiv; – PETC VI: Gdańsk – Warszawa – Katowice – Žilina - Brno.

6. Poland on the crossroads of transcontinental transport routes in the middle of Europe Poland offers the shortest and most convenient road connection in the East – West axis, which can serve trade flows between Western Europe, the CIS countries and the Far East: - E 30: Cork – London – Den Haag – Berlin – Warszawa – Minsk – Moskva – Samara – Omsk, length of Polish section: 682 km (the A-2 motorway); - E 40: Callais – Bruxelles – Koln – Dresden – Wrocław – Katowice – Kraków – Lviv – Kyiv – Volgograd – Atyrau – Tashkent – Bishkek, length of Polish section: 756 km (the A-4/A-18 motorways);

7. Poland on the crossroads of transcontinental transport routes in the middle of Europe Corridor II Corridor III

8. Poland on the crossroads of transcontinental transport routes in the middle of Europe Motorways & expressways 2004 – 2020

9. Poland on the crossroads of transcontinental transport routes in the middle of Europe Strategic goals of the Polish transport policy until the year 2020: 1.Development of transit traffic in the East – West direction, therefore modernisation of the E 20 and E 30 rail lines within the 2007 – 2013 and 2014 – 2020 EU budgetary perspectives to the AGC and AGTC technical parameters are considered as a key aim. 2. Priority for the modernisation of the TEN-T network along with the PETCs II and III according to the Operational Programme „Infrastructure and Environment” for the years 2007 – 2013.

10. The Paneuropean Road Transport Corridor No. IIThe A-2 motorway, existing section - Poznań by-pass.

11. The Paneuropean Transport Road Corridor No. III. Passage of the A-4 motorway through the Katowice agglomeration.

12. Thank you for your attention!Mr Jerzy PolaczekMinister of TransportRepublic of PolandWarsaw, 14-15.06.2007