European Maritime Space and Inland ports (AFIF) - works
CEF 2 Transport - Projects related to sustainable and multimodal mobility - General envelope · CEF-INFRA
What this call funds
This call funds construction works to green maritime transport: installing onshore power supply and battery charging systems for ships in TEN-T ports, and fitting or retrofitting engines on ferries, short sea shipping vessels and inland waterway vessels with cleaner propulsion like electric, hybrid, hydrogen, ammonia, methanol or biomethane. It also supports related grid upgrades, on-site renewable energy generation and battery storage as smaller add-on elements. The goal is to cut emissions from shipping and ports across the EU's core transport network.
renewable energy · energy storage · electric vehicles · maritime shipping · hydrogen · smart grids
Who wins this
Port authorities, port operators, ship owners or operators of TEN-T maritime/inland ports and vessels undertaking concrete infrastructure works or vessel retrofitting projects to reduce shipping emissions.
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The call in detail
- Funding model
- CEF-AG
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- CEF Infrastructure Projects
- Partners
- Not stated in the call.
- Eligible applicants
- port authority/operator, ship owner/operator
- Also required
- Support for vessel retrofitting is capped at EUR 5 million per vessel, limited to specific vessel types (ferries/short sea shipping vessels of at least 2000 GT, inland waterway vessels over 20m with >12 passenger capacity), excludes tugboats, cruise vessels, recreational craft and day-trip tourism vessels, requires EU flag and minimum 5-year service commitment, and fitting/retrofitting contracts must be signed after call publication and no later than 31 December 2027; synergetic elements (e.g. renewables, grid connection, storage) may not exceed 20% of total eligible project costs.
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
Conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in section 5 of the call document. 2. Eligible countries described in section 6 of the call document. 3. Other eligibility conditions described in section 6 of the call document. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in section 7 of the call document. 5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual. 5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds described in section 9 of the call document. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in section 4 of the call document. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in section 10 of the call document. Call document and annexes: CEF-T-2026-SUSTMOBGEN-EMS-WORKS
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