(01/07/2024) 

The aim is to guarantee the involvement of Portugal and France in the development of the cross-border connections of the Atlantic Corridor with Spain, for which works for more than €6.1 billion have already been tendered.

The representatives of the European Commission visited the works on the Madrid Chamartín station and the intermodal station at Madrid-Barajas Airport, both of which are among the projects included in the Atlantic Corridor.

The Atlantic Corridor is a backbone that connects, through multimodal transport infrastructures, 13 autonomous communities. It involves the development of 5,300 kilometres of railways, actions in nine ports, five airports, five logistics terminals and 2,764 kilometres of roads.

European funds have been key to the realisation of such a large-scale project. For this reason, another of the issues discussed at the meeting was the new funding framework for these projects that the European Union is working on, as well as the status of the latest call for proposals of the Connecting Europe Facility, which is the financial instrument created by the European Commission for the development of the Trans-European Network.