The transport corridor leading through Ukraine to Poland is also an attractive link in the sequence:

• Southern and eastern Black Sea countries, Caspian countries and Middle East countries – Ukraine – Poland – Scandinavia/Northern Germany, Benelux and the UK – these connections are currently based on shipping from Turkey to Italian ports and onwards via congested transalpine routes to northern Europe. The establishment of a connection based on ferry lines from Odesa to ports on the southern and eastern Black Sea coast, an intermodal rail link via the dry ports of Chełm and Dorohusk, and further via the developed European intermodal network (including sea ferries to Scandinavia and the UK) provides a time- and cost-beneficial alternative to existing connections.
• Ukraine (but also Georgia and eastern Turkey) – major North Sea container ports (Rotterdam, Antwerp, Bremerhaven, Hamburg) – intermodal connection via Poland (ports of Chełm and Dorohusk) provides a time- and cost-effective alternative to the major European logistics hubs located on the southern North Sea coast and on the Rhine River.