- The Distribution Committee of the Interport Compensation Fund gives the green light to the initial proposal for 2026, as well as the percentage of contribution of the Port Authorities to this mechanism of cohesion of the system.
- In addition, it approves the program of actions of the Financial Fund for Port Land Accessibility: 58 actions representing a total investment of 1,883.9 million euros to improve port connectivity.
The Distribution Committee of the Interport Compensation Fund, which met yesterday, has approved the provisional resolution to grant subsidies to 16 commercial projects for a value of 6 million euros, within the framework of the Ports 4.0 program, corresponding to the 2023 call.
A total of 67 applications were submitted, 66 of which were accepted and 16 were finally proposed for the allocation of grants totaling six million euros. The selected projects are framed in areas such as improving logistics efficiency, safety, sustainability and digitization of processes. In addition, the 16 selected projects have 13 Port Authorities as facilitating agents.
The Committee also approved providing Ports 4.0 with a new budget allocation of 18 million euros to finance three new calls for proposals: commercial ideas and projects before the end of 2025 and pre-commercial projects in 2026.
The Puertos 4.0 fund is the corporate open innovation model adopted by Puertos del Estado and the Port Authorities to attract, support and facilitate the application of talent and entrepreneurship to the Spanish public and private logistics-port sector in the field of new technologies. Since it was created in 2020, 9 calls have been launched that have received more than 900 applications, from which more than 215 ideas and projects have been awarded, for an amount of more than 46 million euros, which will contribute to modernize the sector.
In addition, in this meeting of the Distribution Committee -a mechanism that allows the redistribution of resources within the state port system, according to the needs-, the final distribution proposal for 2025 and the initial proposal for 2026 were approved, as well as the percentage of contribution of the Port Authorities, 5%, and for the Port Authorities of the Canary and Balearic archipelagos, Ceuta, Melilla and Seville, 2.5%.
The initial distribution proposal for 2026, as established in the Consolidated Text of the Law on State Ports and the Merchant Marine, is intended for aid to navigation (9.7 million euros), to Port Authorities due to their conditions of special isolation, insularity and ultraperipherality (10.2 million euros), to safety actions (1.6 million euros), to the Ports Fund 4.0 Fund (8.7 million euros) and other criteria according to Article 159.5 b) (16.6 million euros).
The Committee also gave the green light to the update of the program of actions of the Financial Fund for Port Land Accessibility – whose objective is to improve the connectivity of Spanish ports – derived from the Business Plans 2026, as well as the budget of the Fund for next year. The Fund is now made up of 58 actions representing a total investment of 1,883.9 million euros, for which a maximum contribution of 821.3 million euros from the resources generated by the port public bodies is foreseen.
