Northern East West Freight Corridor

[1] The project was financed for a test run in 2006 through NEW Corridor AS, a company owned 65% by UIC and 35% by a Norwegian county, Nordland.

[4] Transportutvikling claims in their report[5] that this corridor will be an important alternative to the traditional shipping route from China to the U.S.A.

The Chinese, Kazakh, Russian, Finnish, Swedish and Norwegian bureaucracy has to approve plans, improve routines and train customs officers.

Reloading could be done in Murmansk or in a port in the Baltic Sea, avoiding the break-of-gauge at the Swedish-Finnish border, and involving fewer countries.

It is hard to change this since the volume of these ports and the fact that they are located closer to the end-destination make them more competitive than Narvik.