EU commits over €600 million to decarbonise transport sector including shipping

The European Commission has announced more than €600 million (about $695 million) in funding to help electrify and decarbonise Europe’s transport sector, including shipping, along the trans-European transport network.

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Seventy projects will receive this funding. Their focus includes expanding alternative-fuel infrastructure such as electric charging stations, hydrogen refuelling points, electricity supply systems, and ammonia and methanol bunkering facilities across 24 EU countries.

As part of this initiative, 24 maritime ports will adopt cleaner technologies, including onshore power supply (OPS), electrified port services and ammonia bunkering for future vessels.

Selected maritime projects range from the Madoqua Green Fuels Terminal in Sines, Portugal — which will upgrade port infrastructure to support ammonia bunkering — to major European ports securing funding for new shore-power facilities. Ports such as Rotterdam, Antwerp-Bruges, Hamburg, Aarhus, Tallinn, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Saint-Malo, Koper and others will install OPS systems, electrify cranes and terminal equipment, and expand clean-energy grids to cut emissions from vessel calls and port operations.

“We are currently supporting 70 projects with €600 million in EU funding to accelerate the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure across Europe,” said Apostolos Tzitzikostas, European commissioner for sustainable transport and tourism.

The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) will now begin preparing grant agreements, while the Commission prepares a new work programme and upcoming call for proposals.

By Tuhin Roy

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