The Transit Route Via Carpatia

Via Carpatia is a historical route connecting the Baltic Sea and the Aegean Sea. It is the shortest route from the north to the south.

The development of the Via Carpatia might have a great effect on the economic development, the development of SMEs, research and science, technological and logistics parks.

The route called “Via Carpatia” will run from Lithuanian seaport Klaipeda via Kaunas, Polish cities Bialystok, Lublin and Rzeszow, via Slovak cities Prešov and Košice, Hungarian towns Miskolc and Debrecen, across Romania via Oradea, Lugoj, Calafat and Constanta, via Bulgarian metropolis of Sofia and Svilengrad up to the Greek Thessaloniki.

A short timeline

June 2006 – The idea of Transit Route Via Carpatia was born by Poland

October 2006 – Conference “One Route – Four Countries” . Ministers of Poland, Lithuania, Hungary and Slovakia discussed the topic on the north-south transit route – Via Carpatia. The signature of the Declaration of Lancut was the result of the Conference. National governments have committed to include the Via Carpatia route among priorities of the national transport policy.

October 2010 – International Conference. Ministers of Transport from 7 countries signed together “The Via Carpatia Declaration”

November 2012 – Receipt of the call “Transport Route Via Carpatia - opportunity to boost the competitiveness of the EU eastern regions” aimed at supporting the construction of Transit Route Via Carpatia and its integration into the TEN-T network

The biggest success of the construction of the Transit Route Via Carpatia

• The Agreement on Cooperation in Building up Via Carpatia, the shortest route from the north to the south of Europe, was signed on 17 April 2015, in Rzeszow, by the representatives of regional authorities of Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. The chairman of the Polish Podkarpacie Voivodeship, Košice Self-governing Region, Prešov Self-governing Region and the county of Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén agreed on the rules and principles of the mutual cooperation tending to achieve the construction of the Via Carpatia corridor.
• On 17th November, 2016 the conference called „10th anniversary of the Łańcut Declaration - Via Carpatia today, challenges for the future“ was held. Within the conference three other Polish regions – Lublin Voivodeship, Masovian Voivodeship, Podlaskie Voivodeship - joined the Agreement on Cooperation in Building up Via Carpatia,