7. Stresses that the rail freight network should be based on the most "market-relevant" freight corridors taking into account the existing ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System) corridors and TEN-T (Trans-European Transport) network, (i.e. extended as necessary to include specific areas generating heavy volumes of traffic, e.g. ports); considers that "high level corridor coordinators" should be appointed, wherever this has not yet been done; calls upon the European Railway Agency, as the ERTMS authority, to ensure that these routes become interoperable;

7. Stresses that the rail freight network should be based on the most "market-relevant" freight corridors taking into account the existing ERTMS (European Rail Traffic Management System) corridors and TEN-T (Trans-European Transport) network, (i.e. extended as necessary to include specific areas generating heavy volumes of traffic, e.g. ports); considers that "high level corridor coordinators" should be appointed, wherever this has not yet been done; calls upon the European Railway Agency, as the ERTMS system authority, to ensure that these routes become interoperable;

This network includes traffic management, tracking and navigation systems, technical installations for data processing and telecommunications intended for long-distance passenger services and freight services on the network in order to guarantee the safe and harmonious operation of the network and efficient traffic management.

This infrastructure includes traffic management, tracking, and navigation systems: technical installations for data processing and telecommunications intended both for long-distance passenger services and freight services on the network, and for invoicing of the electricityconsumed by electrification systems on electrified lines, in order to guarantee the safe and harmonious operation of the network and efficient traffic management.

This infrastructure includes traffic management, tracking, and navigation systems: technical installations for data processing and telecommunications intended for long-distance passenger services and freight services on the network in order to guarantee the safe and harmonious operation of the network and efficient traffic management.

This infrastructure includes traffic management, tracking, and navigation systems: technical installations for data processing and telecommunications intended for long-distance passenger services and freight services on the network in order to guarantee the safe and harmonious operation of the network and efficient traffic management.