transport corridor between ecosystems

Waterborne transport- direct employment: around 200,000, roughly 80% of which in maritime transport and 20% in inland waterway transport- share in total freight transport: 42% (intra-EU maritime 39%, inland waterways 3%; both more or less stable)-share in total passenger transport: below 1% in intra-EU passenger transport, slightly decreasing- growth between 1995 and 2004: + 29% in freight transport (+ 31% in intra-EU maritime transport, + 9% on inland waterways)- average yearly growth of worldwide con-tainer traffic between 2001 and 2004: 13.5%- share (of inland navigation) ...[+++] in total energy consumption: 0.5%- vehicle efficiency (of inland navigation) in toe/Mtkm: 17.5 | Airborne transport- direct employment: around 400,000- share in total freight transport: 0.1% in terms of tkm in intra-EU traffic -share in total passenger transport: 8% (only intra-EU flights included; increasing strongly)- growth between 1995 and 2004: + 55% in intra-EU passenger transport- market share of low-cost carriers in scheduled intra-EU traffic (in terms of available seats): 25% in 2005- growth in number of intra-EU routes: +100% between 1992 and 2004- share in total energy consumption: 4.0% |

One border post was completed at Leushen in Moldova in 2001; four border crossings were completed in 2002, Salla and Svetogorsk on the Finnish/Russian, the border post in Chop on the Hungarian/Ukrainian border, and the post at Kameny Log on the Belarus/Lithuanian border; and one bridge, the Jagodin over the Bug River between Ukraine and Poland with its access road was also completed in 2002. These have contributed to more efficient and effective controls and reduced waiting times. Construction of a new border post at Bagrationovsk between Kaliningrad and Poland started in June 2002 and will be completed in early 2003. In addition, work ...[+++] on the border demarcation between Belarus and Lithuania started in March 2002.

New European legislation which entered into force in 2012 and 2013 ensures that passengers have similar basic rights everywhere in Europe, irrespective of whether they travel by air, train, ship or bus: Regulation (EU) No 1177/2010[98] for passengers travelling by sea and inland waterways entered into force on 6 January 2011, and Regulation (EU) No 181/2011[99] on the rights of passengers travelling by bus and coach entered into force on 20 March 2011.

New European legislation which entered into force in 2012 and 2013 ensures that passengers have similar basic rights everywhere in Europe, irrespective of whether they travel by air, train, ship or bus: Regulation (EU) No 1177/2010[98] for passengers travelling by sea and inland waterways entered into force on 6 January 2011, and Regulation (EU) No 181/2011[99] on the rights of passengers travelling by bus and coach entered into force on 20 March 2011.