title: North Sea–Baltic Corridor
text: # North Sea–Baltic Corridor
  
  The North Sea–Baltic Corridor is the number 2 of the ten priority axes of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).
  
  ## History
  
  The original corridor of the Core Network to be called Warsaw–Midlands (route Warsaw – Poznań – Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin – Hannover – Osnabrück – Enschede – Utrecht – Amsterdam/Rotterdam – Felixstowe – Birmingham/Manchester – Liverpool), but following the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union following Brexit, the axis would no longer reach the British Islands, therefore it was enlarged and redesigned according to the current route from Helsinki to the Benelux.
  
  ## Description
  
  The North Sea–Baltic Corridor develops its network from the North Sea to the Baltic on the following twelve axes and through the following European cities.
  
  * Helsinki – Tallinn – Riga
  * Ventspils – Riga
  * Riga – Kaunas
  * Klaipeda – Kaunas – Vilnius
  * Kaunas – Warszawa
  * Warszawa – Poznań – Frankfurt (Oder) – Berlin – Hamburg
  * Berlin – Magdeburg – Braunschweig – Hannover
  * Hannover – Bremen – Bremerhaven/Wilhelmshaven
  * Hannover – Osnabrück – Hengelo – Almelo – Deventer – Utrecht
  * Utrecht – Amsterdam
  * Utrecht – Rotterdam – Antwerp
  * Hannover – Cologne – Antwerp
  