VASAB Secretariat is elaborating a unique spatial planning document – a spatial vision for a transport corridor. Since 2016 VASAB Secretariat together with 15 other partners of the NSB CoRe project as well as many interested urban and transport planners, national, regional and local authorities, and other stakeholders are preparing transnational spatial vision of the NSB CoRe corridor. The vision should be ready by…

The project Baltic LINes on January 24 – 25, 2018 organised an international shipping sector stakeholder workshop “Shaping the Future of Shipping in the Baltic Sea” in Riga, Latvia. 18 shipping stakeholders from the Baltic Sea Region engaged with the simulation software “MSP Challenge 2050”.

New Baltic LINes report developed by the Latvian Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development provides an insight into Latvia's experience on the development of future scenarios for shipping and energy sectors up to 2050 and the identification of critical issues at national and BSR levels, as well as key findings and outcomes.

  On March 14 in Vaasa, Finland, VASAB Secretariat is organizing a regional workshop on accessibility needs along the North Sea-Baltic TEN-T corridor in the Northern Baltic Sea Region. The 6th and the final regional workshop of the project NSB CoRe is organized during the E12 Atlantica Transport final conference “A Borderless Future!”.The NSB CoRe pro…

  On 9 February the ESPON European and Macro-regional Territorial Monitoring Tool project kicked-off in Brussels. The aim of this ESPON activity is to develop a practical and operational tool to continuously observe the development trends and patterns taking place in Europe and i…

Designing a Marine Spatial Data Infrastructure (MDSI) Prototype for Maritime Spatial Planning Data in the Baltic Sea The Flagship "Baltic LINes" financed by Interreg Baltic Sea programme aims at increasing transnational coherence of shipping routes and energy corridors in Maritime Spatial Plans (MSP). This is essential to prevent cross-border mismatches, to secure transnational connectivity and to assure efficient use of Baltic Sea space. …