The Management Boards of RFC 1&2, together with the transport ministries of the Netherlands, Germany, France, the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, Italy and Switzerland organised a conference in Ghent on 20 March 2014 to inaugurate the opening of the corridors.
The conference of 20 March brought together more than 200 people coming from the seven countries of the corridors and representing all stakeholders of the corridors: the railway undertakings, ports and other terminals as well as their clients, the infrastructure managers and allocation bodies, the transport ministries and European Commission.
The participants were given an overview of the products and services offered by the corridors as well as their objectives. The railway undertakings and major rail users present also had the opportunity to express their vision, their needs and expectations, in particular thanks to the organisation of business corners.
Also, the two new European coordinators in charge of the TEN-T multimodal corridors, Ms Palacio for the Rhine-Alpine core network corridor and Mr Bálazs for the North Sea-Mediterranean core network corridor explained the multimodal vision of these major highways, the backbone of which is clearly the rail freight corridors.
All the documents presented at the conference will be available on 24 March 2014 on the event website.
