Pan-European Corridor X

The Corridor X is one of the pan-European corridors. It runs between Salzburg in Austria and Thessaloniki in Greece. The corridor passes through Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia, and Greece. It has four branches: Xa, Xb, Xc, and Xd.

Pan-European Corridor X
Pan-European Corridor X highlighted in red
Major junctions
Start end	Salzburg (Austria)
End end	Thessaloniki (Greece)
Location
Countries	Austria Bulgaria Croatia Greece Hungary North Macedonia Serbia Slovenia
Highway system
Pan-European corridors

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has given loans to support infrastructure improvements along Corridor X.

Branches

X: Salzburg - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Belgrade - Niš - Skopje - Veles - Thessaloniki.

• Branch A: Graz - Maribor - Zagreb
• Branch B: Budapest - Novi Sad - Belgrade
• Branch C: Niš - Sofia - Plovdiv - Edirne - Istanbul via Corridor IV
• Branch D: Veles - Prilep - Bitola - Florina - Igoumenitsa (Via Egnatia)

Branch A (Corridor Xa)

Main article: Corridor Xa

Corridor Xa runs between Graz, Austria and Zagreb, Croatia through Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria.

Branch C (Corridor Xc)

Corridor Xc follows the route Niš - Sofia - Plovdiv - Edirne - Istanbul.

The road in Serbia from Niš to the Bulgarian border nearby Dimitrovgrad is recently upgraded to a motorway standard. The construction works in all sections are completed on November 9, 2019.

In Bulgaria, I-8 road connect Sofia with the Serbian border, but Kalotina motorway is planned to supersede it. Currently the transit traffic has to pass via the Sofia Ring Road, but a new bypass Northern Speed Tangent is under construction since 2015 and is expected to be completed in 2016. Trakia motorway (A1) runs from Sofia to Chirpan, where Maritsa motorway (A4), completed in October 2015, branches off to Turkey.

In Turkey, Otoyol 3 motorway runs from Edirne to Istanbul.

See also

• Budapest–Belgrade–Skopje–Athens railway