IN A QUIET corner of the Baltic Sea, a sleepy German holiday island is about to be transformed by one of the largest infrastructure projects in the world.
The island of Fehmarn sits just off the mainland of Germany and is separated from the south coast of Denmark by a 20-kilometre stretch of water known as the Fehmarn Belt. Construction is underway on a tunnel between the two countries that will provide the missing link in a transcontinental highway which will move hundreds of thousands of people a year and generate billions of dollars in revenue.
First, let’s take a step back. The Trans-European Transport Network is a series of roads, railways and shipping lanes which connect every corner of the continent. One of the most important routes is the Scan-Med corridor, the central vertical axis of the network which spans 5,000 kilometres from Malta in the Mediterranean to Finland’s icy tundra.
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