Inland waterways and ports: studies, works or mixed

Call updates

28 August 2024

Information update on the 2023 CEF Transport CORECOEN call

Call published: 26/09/2023

Call deadline: 30/01/2024

Indicative budget: EUR 2 800 000 000

Total budget requested by the applicants: EUR 8 024 320 815.71

Number of admissible and eligible proposals: 45

Number of inadmissible proposals: 7

Number of ineligible proposals: 1

Number of successful proposals: 20

Total budget for the successful proposals: EUR 3 096 657 972.76*

* The budget flexibility provided in the 2021-2027 Work Programme has been applied in this call

Feb 6, 2024 3:11:47 PM

Dear Applicants,

The CEF Transport calls for proposals closed as planned on 30 January 2024 at 17:00. The CORECOEN call received 53 applications requesting over EUR 8 billion co-funding from the Connecting Europe Facility. Including all nine calls together, there is an oversubscription of over 3 times the total budget of EUR 7 billion available.

CINEA will check the admissibility and eligibility of the submitted proposals. The evaluation will continue based on the award criteria of the call, with the assistance of external independent experts. The results will be announced in July 2024.

Information of CEF Transport supported projects is published on CINEA public dashboard

Dec 19, 2023 10:47:03 AM

Dear Applicant,

The 9 CEF Transport calls for proposals will soon close on 30 January 2024 at 17:00. In total, 37 topics are open for submission on the Funding & Tenders portal.

We strongly advise you not to wait until the last minute to submit your application!

You may also see the Call page (https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/funding-opportunities/calls-proposals/2023-cef-transport-calls-proposals_en), and the Info Day page (https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/news-events/events/2023-cef-transport-calls-proposals-info-day-2023-10-10_en) to find the presentations and recording of the info day session. In addition, more than 400 FAQs are available on the FAQ support on the Funding & Tenders portal. An excel extract can also be downloaded from Info Day page under the Q&A session.

We wish you the best of luck in your application!

Nov 17, 2023 12:55:31 PM

Dear Applicant,

It has come to our attention that the links embedded within the CINEA Guide on economic appraisal for CEF Transport Projects as well as in section 4.2 Economic and Financial analysis to the DG REGIO CBA guidance are no longer functioning.

Please find attached the direct links to these guidance materials:

- DG REGIO Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis of Investment Projects: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/information/publications/guides/2014/guide-to-cost-benefit-analysis-of-investment-projects-for-cohesion-policy-2014-2020 )

- DG REGIO CBA Economic Appraisal Vademecum: https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/en/information/publications/guides/2021/economic-appraisal-vademecum-2021-2027-general-principles-and-sector-applications)

We wish you a lot of success with the completion of your applications.

Kind regards,

CEF Transport Evaluation Team

Sep 26, 2023 12:00:02 AM

The submission session is now available for: CEF-T-2023-CORECOEN-IWWP-WORKS(CEF-INFRA)

Inland waterways and ports: studies, works or mixed

CEF-T-2023-CORECOEN-IWWP-WORKS

Programme: Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
Call: CEF 2 Transport - Projects on the Core Network – Cohesion envelope (CEF-T-2023-CORECOEN)
Type of action: CEF-INFRA CEF Infrastructure Projects
Type of MGA: CEF Action Grant Budget-Based [CEF-AG]
Deadline model: single-stage
Opening date: 26 September 2023
Deadline date: 30 January 2024 17:00:00 Brussels time

Objective:
The objective is to develop inland waterway transport infrastructure projects on the Core Network of the TEN-T.

Scope:
studies and / or works on inland waterways, related to:

upgrade of waterways and related infrastructure such as locks and weirs/dams in order to achieve stable or improved navigation conditions, performance and/or more capacity for the passage of vessels or to ensure good navigation status;
creation of new waterways and related infrastructure (locks, weirs/dams, bridges);
construction/lifting/upgrading of locks and movable bridges, to improve the passage of vessels and convoys;
automation of waterway infrastructure (e.g. locks, weirs/dams, bridges) to improve its operation and monitoring;
increasing of under-bridge clearance;
ensuring year-round navigability e.g. by means of hydrological services, ice-breaking facilities and capital dredging;
waterside infrastructure including the creation and/or upgrade of infrastructure for mooring and waterborne operations along a waterway and/or shoreside electricity installations. This waterside infrastructure can also concern transhipment sites located on the TEN-T Network which are not included in Annex II.2 of the TEN-T Regulation (EU) n°1315/2013, limited to infrastructure enabling ship to shore loading/unloading and shoreside electricity;
interconnection between inland waterways and maritime transport.
Studies and / or works on TEN-T core inland ports, related to:

access, including safe access through navigational aids, of inland ports to inland waterways;
basic and water-side infrastructure in inland ports, including shore-side electricity supply;
port reception facilities for oil and other waste (including residues from exhaust gas cleaning systems) and infrastructure for degassing vessels to meet environmental requirements;
providing or improving road/rail access and connections within inland ports;
ensuring year-round navigability by means of e.g. hydrological services, ice-breaking facilities and dredging of the port and port approaches.
Works projects may include on-site renewable energy generation (synergetic element in accordance with Section 10.6 of the Work Programme), such as photovoltaic power plants, wind turbines etc. that is primarily used for example for the shore-side electricity supply, for the need of the basic port infrastructure and for diverse port operations. Such synergetic elements must improve the socio-economic, climate or environmental benefits of the project and may not exceed 20% of the total eligible costs of the project.

Waterside infrastructure development projects means infrastructure that enhances the navigability capacity in the meaning of Articles 15 and 16 of Regulation (EU) No 1315/2013 or improves the multimodal connection of waterborne transport operations. This excludes infrastructure that does not directly benefit waterborne transport operations.

Elements of storage, transhipment facilities and equipment (zero-emission) may be included in a project benefiting inland waterway transport only if they are fully integrated in, and a minor part of the infrastructure investment project. These projects should not aim to focus on storing and transhipment facilities and equipment, but rather on the transport infrastructure.

Support will not be given to infrastructure dedicated for cruise ships, except as regards shore-side electricity supply.

Hinterland connections to the inland ports are covered by the respective transport mode priorities but may be part of a single project (for instance a project improving the rail access both within and outside the port area). Projects combining hinterland access both within and outside the port area may be submitted either to the inland port or to the maritime port/road/rail topics as appropriate.

In accordance with Article 9(2), point (a)(i) of the CEF Regulation, projects addressing the Core Network may include related elements on the Comprehensive Network, when necessary to optimize the investment. These elements may form up to 10% of the total eligible costs of the project and should be presented as a separate work package.

Facilities and infrastructure supported under CEF must be accessible for use by all operators on a non-discriminatory basis.