In December the European Commission welcomed the political agreement reached between the European Parliament and the Council on the regulation underpinning the trans-European transport network (TEN-T). New TEN-T policy includes stronger efforts to increase the use of more sustainable forms of transport and to improve multimodality – the practice of combining transport modes for a single journey – within the European transport system. We had a closer look at the new TEN-T maps and noticed some substantial changes in the Baltic countries. Mandatory port-inclusive targets are: • The number of transhipment terminals must develop in line with the current and expected traffic flows and the needs of the sector. Equally handling capacity at freight terminals must improve. This, as well as allowing the circulation of 740m trains across the network, will help shift more freight onto more sustainable transport modes and give a push to Europe’s combined transport sector (the use of combinations such as rail-road to move freight). (....)