EASTMED-MOS WESTMED Corridors Calls for MoS Proposals

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EASTMED-MOSWESTMED CorridorsCalls for MoS
Proposals
EAST-WEST MED ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE
MEDITERRANEAN MOTORWAYS OF THE SEA seizing the
opportunities of EU support Thursday, 1st October
2009

• EASTMED-MoS Steering Committee
• Technical Assistant
• National Technical University of Athens-
• Department of Transportation Planning and
  Engineering

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EastMed-MoS WestMed CorridorsCalls for Proposal

• West Med Corridors
• 1st Call for Proposals
• EastMed-MoS
• 2nd Call for Proposals

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Call for ProposalsObjectives

• receive valuable feedback regarding prospective
  MoS routes and infrastructure interventions and
  improvements in the inter-modal-logistics chain
• identify mature MoS projects that will become
  part of the MoS Master Plan of the East
  Mediterranean
• identify mature MoS projects that will become
  part of TEN-T and will contribute to its
  development
• record the needs of the market (bottom up
  approach) and thus develop the Master Plan of the
  MoS according to these needs
• encourage realization of MoS projects that have
  good chances of implementation and fall within
  the objectives of the respective governments and
  international agencies in case of funding

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MoS projectsSources of funding

• Mature MoS project proposals that will be
  positively evaluated will be supported to receive
  co-financing by the following instruments
• TEN-T
• infrastructure and facilities co-financed up to
  30 for cross-border sections
• start-up aid limited to 2 years
• preparatory studies co-financed up to 50,
  through the multi-annual programme and the
  European Economic Recovery Plan work programme.
• Marco Polo II programme MoS actions, including
  preparatory measures and ancillary
  infrastructure, co-financed up to 35 of total
  eligible costs.
• Structural Funds Cohesion Funds
• National State Aid
• EIB support for MoS either through senior debt
  financing or through the Loan Guarantee
  instrument for TEN-T projects (LGTT).

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MoS projectsCategories for TEN-T co-financing

• infrastructure for direct land and sea access
• port facilities,
• electronic logistics management systems,
• safety and security procedures
• administrative and customs procedures
• year-round navigability, in particular the
  availability of facilities for dredging

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MoS Proposals Requirements

• The proposed MoS projects should be of European
  interest and focus on the development of
  infrastructure, facilities and services
  throughout the transport corridor in order to
• improve existing maritime links or establish new
  viable, regular and frequent maritime links for
  the transport of goods
• reduce congestion
• improve access to peripheral and island regions
  and States
• streamline freight flows
• facilitate efficient exchange of information
• encourage interoperability and co-modality in the
  logistic chain

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MoS Proposals Requirements

• Analytically
• Elimination of bottlenecks, missing sections
• Establishment/development of infrastructure for
  access to network, linking island, landlocked and
  peripheral regions with central regions
• Combination/integration of modes of transport
• Integration of environmental concerns
• Gradual achievement of interoperability of
  network components
• Optimization of capacity and efficiency of
  existing infrastructure
• Establishment/improvement of interconnection
• Improved safety and network reliability
• Development/establishment of systems for network
  traffic and user information
• Contribution to improved design and better
  implementation of the trans-European transport
  network.

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MoS Proposals Who can apply

• Consortia bringing together at least ports and
  maritime transport operators
• Ports should be located in at least two different
  Member States, one (or more) of which should be
  located in the participants countries for each
  call
• EastMed-MoS Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Cyprus and
  Malta
• WestMed Corridors Italy, Spain, France, Malta
• Transport operators can be located in any EU
  member state
• Consortia should include a broad range of
  partners involved in the door-to-door logistic
  chain
• ports, shipping companies, terminal operators,
  road haulers, rail operators, logistics
  operators, ship brokers, local and/or regional
  public authorities and infrastructure owners,
  other transport infrastructure managers, etc.
• Consortia should include partners from
  neighboring third countries to provide the
  extension of the proposed MoS to these countries

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MoS Proposals Content and Structure

• Based on the requirements of the TEN-T 2009 Call
  for Proposals
• Two sections
• Section I Administrative Information
• Section II Technical and Financial Information

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MoS Proposals Section I Administrative
Information

• Proposal Title
• Partner/countries involved and stakeholders
  Contact information
• General Outline of MoS project (links between
  ports regions, description of new old route,
  description of proposed services, ect)
• Basic description of participating partners (i.e.
  description of port, port terminal or transport
  operator operations, current infrastructure,
  capacity, freight, traffic/volume, financial
  results).
• Participating partners should also submit a
  letter of intent signifying their commitment to
  the implementation of the proposed MoS project.

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MoS Proposals Section II Technical and
Financial Information

• Description of the main objectives
• Current situation and main needs addressed
• Description of activities and service plan
• Description of expected results
• Socio-economic benefits at macro level
• Maturity of the MoS project
• Environmental impact assessment
• Financial Information
• Ex-ante evaluation
• Social and economic impact
• Impact on traffic management, congestion, modal
  split, interoperability, service quality, safety
  and security

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MoS Proposals Evaluation Criteria

• The proposals must be in conformity with regard
  to the TEN-T guidelines
• Relevance
• Maturity
• Impact
• Quality
• NTUA will evlauate the ptoposals for East-MED MoS

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MoS Proposals Evaluation Criteria

• Relevance
• belongs to one of the 30 priority projects of TEN
  Guidelines
• addresses TEN-T priorities
• addresses objectives, priorities and expected
  results of Call for proposals
• contributes to internal market, cohesion policy
  and Lisbon strategy
• generates socio-economic benefits
• develops new or upgrades existing maritime links
  (mainly freight)
• integrates constitent parts of the MoS project of
  common interest into the door-to-door intermodal
  transport chain
• contributes to reduction of road congestion
• contributes to economic and social issues of the
  countries concerned

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MoS Proposals Evaluation Criteria

• Maturity
• formal approval at governmental, regional, local
  level
• political commitments
• ready for implementation
• defined procurement procedures
• risks and factors of uncertainty of
  legal/administrative/technical/other nature
• commitment of financial resources
• viability of (the upgrade of) the transport
  services
• description of whole door-to-door logistics chain
• help overcome the existing and potential future
  bottlenecks.

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MoS Proposals Evaluation Criteria

• Impact
• Positive impact on socio-economic effects
• traffic growth, multimodal split,
  interoperability, regional or national
  competition, service quality, safety and security
• regional and / or local development and land use
• competition.
• Environmental consequences
• re-balancing of transport modes in favour of the
  most environmentally friendly ones
• positive and negative effects on the environment
• adequate measures of prevention, monitoring and
  mitigation
• Effects on competition
• impact on existing maritime and inland transport
  operations servicing similar hinterlands
• Description of expected yearly road freight until
  2025 (modal shift)
• Calculation of reduction of external costs

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MoS Proposals Evaluation Criteria

• Quality
• coherence of activities with proposals
  objectives
• realistic and consistent technical proposal
• adequate financial resources to implement
  activities, and realistic revenues
• realistic and reasonable costs
• organisational structure and project management
  plan
• risk management plan
• logic, completeness and clarity of proposal
• Presentation of consortium, role of each actor,
  commitment
• monitoring of implementation and effects of the
  action
• efficiency of port services, transport services,
  customer services and logistics services

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MoS Proposals Deadline

• Deadline for submission of proposals will remain
  open until 15th November 2009.
• NTUA cooperation with proposers for EAST-MED
• Support of M-S for submission of MoS positively
  elaluated proposals to TEN-T call for proposals

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For further information

• www.eastmed-mos.eu
• Thank you!