This report summarises the findings and recommendations from the EU Interreg Baltic Sea Region (BSR) TENTacle project, which aimed to increase the stakeholder capacity to capitalise on the TEN-T core network corridors for prosperity, sustainable growth
and territorial cohesion in the BSR. The project was carried out during the years 2016-2019 in the partnership with 23 organisations from nine countries in the BSR. The project, apart from macroregional analyses, contained nine pilot cases (showcases), displaying a variety of context-related opportunities to reap core network corridor gains in diverse geographical locations. Among these were: Corridor node and transit areas: Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link (DE/DK), Westpomerania – Skåne (PL/SE), Gdynia transport node (PL); Corridor catchment areas: Blekinge (SE), Vidzeme (LV); Corridor void areas: Central Scandinavia borderland (SE/NO), Lahti – North Karelia (FI); Corridor extension areas: Catching the goods transports from the northern regions to CNCs (logistics hub function of the Örebro region), interactions between the CNCs and transport networks of the EU Eastern Partnership countries.
In addition, TENTacle gathered corridor governance experiences from earlier BSR Interregprojects and conducted an analysis to investigate the effects related to both the improved connectivity and the wider economic benefits of the CNC implementation. The
impact analysis showed potential positive and negative impacts of the corridor infrastructure investments both geographically and by stakeholder category. Based on all these results, suitable policy and action responses were formulated, to either boost or mitigate potential effects of the CNC implementation, in the near future, but also from a long-term perspective.