The European Union is granting 140 projects to boost the EU Green Recovery through the Connecting Europe Facility program, the EU’s grant scheme supporting transport infrastructure.

A very strong emphasis is on projects reinforcing railways, including cross-border links and connections to ports and airports.

In particular, the EU will support rail infrastructure projects located on the trans-European transport (TEN-T) core network with a total of €1.6 billion (55 projects).

It will also support the shift to greener fuels for transport (19 projects) with almost €142 million. A number of projects involve converting vessels so they may run on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).

Road transport will also see the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure.