On September 9, 2024, nine European coordinators were appointed, who will contribute to the completion of the works aimed at the creation of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T). The mentioned network combines the extensive infrastructure network of railways, roads and inland waterways, which is the basis of the transport system of the European Union. Seven coordinators will lead seven "European Transport Corridors" out of nine. The coordinator of two horizontal priorities - "European Rail Traffic Management System - ERTMS" and "European Maritime Space - EMS" - was also appointed. All mandates are valid for four years and will come into effect on September 9, 2024. They will cooperate with Member States, cities, regions and infrastructure management companies at local, regional, national and European Union level to contribute to the creation of the TEN-T network.

Since there are nine "European transport corridors", the coordinator of two corridors - "Baltic Sea-Black Sea-Aegean Sea Corridor" and "Rhine-Danube Corridor" - will be appointed in 2025 at the beginning.

The Baltic Sea-Black Sea-Aegean Sea Corridor [BBA], which is extremely interesting for us, was recently created. The corridor connects the member states of the European Union from the extreme north of Europe to the extreme south, passing through the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea, part of the Mediterranean Sea, Ukraine and Moldova. 13 countries are located along the corridor, namely 11 member states: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Cyprus, as well as two neighboring countries - Ukraine and Moldova. It connects almost all the capitals of the BBA countries, except Slovakia, where it connects the second largest city of the country - Košice, in Hungary - Debrecen, in Ukraine - Lviv.

The corridor in the north of Europe starts in the capital of Finland (Helsinki), and in the south - in the capital of Cyprus (Nicosia), from Helsinki it goes south, enters the capital of Estonia (Tallinn), then has two branches: to the south, the capital of Latvia Riga, the Baltic Sea ports, and then - Kaunas and Vilnius in Lithuania. In Poland, the corridor from Lietuva enters Elk (Poland, the administrative center of Elk Powet) and connects with the ports of Gdańsk and Gdynia, goes south through Warsaw and Lublin to Krakow, and near Rzeszów turns to Lviv (Ukraine) and continues on the Black Sea towards Odesa, also south through Romania to Bucharest and to the east - to the capital of Moldova (Chisinau), which is also connected to Odessa.

In the southern part of Poland, two branches of the corridor cross the border with Slovakia, then these two branches unite north of Košice (Slovakia, the administrative center of the Košice Region), then enter Hungary and Romania, where it divides in Oradea (a city in western Romania, on the middle Danube plain): to the southeast - to Bucharest and beyond, to the port of Constanta and to the southwest - to Timisoara (the third largest city in Romania, the center of the historical region of Banat). From here, two branches of the corridor lead to the south of Bulgaria: one, the western branch, passes Vidin (a port on the right bank of the Danube, near the Romanian border) and connects to Sofia, and the other, the eastern branch, connects to the port of Burgas on the Black Sea and heads south to the Turkish border. Both branches then go to the Greek ports of Thessaloniki and Athens on the Aegean Sea. The corridor "Baltic Sea - Black Sea - Aegean Sea" ends in Cyprus (maritime traffic), via the island of Crete, in the port of Limassol (southern part of the Republic of Cyprus, administrative center of Limassol district).

The transport system of Georgia should become a part of this corridor. For this, it is necessary to "de-oligarchize" and fulfill the nine conditions defined by the European Commission. The construction of "Anaklia Port", especially with the use of Chinese investments, cannot save us - the port cannot become a part of the European horizontal priority - "European Maritime Space - EMS", and without it, the transport network of Georgia cannot become a trans-European transport network (TEN-T) part. Europe will simply send the cargo to China in another direction. If you read the post again, you will realize that he will not have a hard time with it.