Brussels, 05/01/2022 (Agence Europe) – The European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP), Inland Navigation Europe (INE) and several stakeholders within the inland waterway transport sector called on Wednesday 5 January for more support for the deployment of alternative fuels. In order to achieve the targets that have been set, these actors want to be able to access funding from programmes such as the Connecting Europe Facility. These stakeholders also insist that the electricity network will have to be improved. Infrastructure for batteries, hydrogen and other sustainable fuels will need to be deployed in a different way, with industry stakeholders arguing that installing a fixed infrastructure for alternative fuels in all ports could “lead to oversupply in some areas and undersupply in others”, since inland ports are “not evenly spread out”. (TM)