New European coordinators appointed to drive completion of Europe’s trans-European transport network

Nine European Coordinators have been designated today to help complete the trans-European transport network (TEN-T), a vast infrastructure network of railways, roads, and inland waterways connecting the European Union. Seven Coordinators will be in charge of seven out of the nine European Transport Corridors. Two Coordinators in charge of related horizontal priorities – the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) and the European Maritime Space (EMS) – have also been appointed. All mandates are for four years, renewable, and start as of today. They will collaborate with Member States, cities, regions, and infrastructure managers at local, regional, national, and European levels to facilitate work towards completing the TEN-T.

European Coordinators

• Carlo Secchi, Atlantic
• Anne Elisabet Jensen, Baltic Sea - Adriatic Sea
• Mathieu Grosch, Mediterranean
• Catherine Trautmann, North Sea Baltic
• Pawel Wojciechowski, North Sea - Rhine - Mediterranean
• Pat Cox, Scandinavian - Mediterranean
• Marian-Jean Marinescu, Western Balkan - Eastern Mediterranean
• Matthias Ruete, European Rail Traffic Management System
• Gesine Meissner, European Maritime Space

As there are nine European Transport Corridors, two other TEN-T Coordinators will still have to be appointed for the remaining two European Transport Corridors. They will be in charge for the Baltic Sea-Black Sea-Aegean Sea Corridor and the Rhine-Danube Corridor and will be designated and appointed in early 2025.

Background

The European Commission follows a transparent process to appoint the European Coordinators. They are chosen, in particular, on the basis of his or her knowledge of matters relating to transport, to the financing or the socio-economic and environmental evaluation of major projects, as well as his or her experience with Union policy making.

Following the entry into force of the revised TEN-T Regulation on 18 July 2024 and the fact that the Core Network Corridors have been transformed into the European Transport Corridors with a changed alignment, the Commission has nominated a renewed group of Coordinators.