TRAFFIC CORRIDORS BALTIK-ADRIATICCONCEPTUAL THESES FOR THE TRAFFIC NET OPTIMIZATION

The traffic linking towards corridors is extraordinarily favourable for all transports aimed to travelling across the Indian Ocean and passage through the Suez Canal. Thus for example the duration of combined commodity transport (railway, road, ship) by direct line Baltik-Adriatic is for 5-7 days shorter than the journey from Baltik, North-West and Central Europe (the starting points in the harbours of the Baltic and North Sea) to the In-dian Ocean, where it is used the longer way by ship around Africa or the transport through the Suez Canal. With the additional condition of development and rational functioning of the harbour and terminal logistics, the multimodal corridor Baltik-Adriatic shortens the transport way for several thousands of nautical miles. The proposal for the improvement of traffic linking is based on the option of usage of the geographically shortest and most convenient land connection between the Adriatic and Baltic Sea, due to their deep cutting into the European mainland. The tracing of direct multimodal corridor Baltic-Adriatic is the contribution to optimization of the future entire Europen traffic net.