The French Ministry of Transport has announced through its minister Philippe Tabarot that the ports of Saint-Malo, Bordeaux and Haropa (Le Havre, Rouen and Paris), and the airports of Toulouse-Blagnac and Paris-Charles de Gaulle have obtained European funds for the electrification of operations.
In the French case, 16 projects have been selected for a total amount of almost 100 million euros in European grants. These results confirm the success of the first term, during which nine French projects were selected, for a total grant of around 75 million euros. In addition to electrification in ports, France will benefit from grants for the deployment of electric vehicle charging stations, for the modernization of bus depots to accelerate electromobility (KEOLIS) and support for the development of physical distribution in the hydrogen sector.
It is worth remembering that in our country the call resulted in a grant of 72.7 million euros for, among other projects, the electrification of docks in the ports of Barcelona, Valencia and Gijón, the development of infrastructure for the supply of ammonia in the port of Algeciras, and for the supply of methanol in the port of Huelva.
The European call for projects of the Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Facility (AFIF) is mobilizing 1 billion euros for the period 2024-2025 to support the deployment of alternative fuel supply infrastructure for road, maritime, inland waterway and air transport along the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). As part of the second AFIF term, which ended in June 2025, 70 projects were selected at the European level, for a total amount of around 601 million euros.
Minister Tabarot stated that “the decarbonization of our transport networks requires large investments” and for this reason France is dedicating “significant resources” in line with the conclusions of the French Transport Ambition Conference. In this decisive project for the coming decades, “EU support allows for substantial investments in a limited budgetary context.”
