Further, EFIP believes that EU financial support is needed. Up to now, only 0.5 % of the TEN-T budget has been spent on port-related projects. The organisation says that optimising transhipment interfaces and eliminating the bottlenecks will work out to be a lot less expensive than creating completely new infrastructure links.
Inland ports need to be recognised
The European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP) has said while it strongly supports the review of the Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T), the organisation believes that the whole waterway network and all of Europes inland ports should be included.