Interreg CE – ACCESSMILE
Project title: ACCESSMILE – Improving ACCESSibility of last mile connections of rural and peripheral regions to main TEN-T nodes in Central Europe through ICT
Acronym: ACCESSMILE
Programme: INTERREG CENTRAL EUROPE Italy-Croatia 2021-2027.
Total value of the project: EUR 2,210,860.00
Share of co-financing from the European Union: 80%
Estimated budget of the Port of Rijeka Authority in the project: EUR 183,400.00
Project duration: 36 months (April 1, 2023 – March 31, 2026)
Project description
The ACCESSMILE project was approved in December 2022 within the framework of the 1st call of the Interreg Central Europe Program for the period 2021-2027, with the specific objective: “Improving transport connections of rural and peripheral regions in Central Europe”. It is a 3-year project that started in April 2023 and involves a total of 11 project partners from 7 EU countries: Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Croatia and Poland. During the project, pilot measures in the field of innovative coordination platforms will be tested; activities will take place to reduce bottlenecks on the intermodal network, where new systems will be used to digitize processes during the road transport of containers.
Project goal
The ACCESSMILE project aims to increase cooperation and coordination between stakeholders in multimodal freight transport in Central Europe using innovative ICT systems, involving some of the most important ports, back-end terminals and stakeholders that create multimodal traffic flows. The project is focused on digitization, creation of medium and long-term IT tools for planning and testing in program areas, and consequently, establishing common standards. The process includes joint testing in result-oriented pilot actions in different locations, comparing the results and finding an acceptable solution for all regions. In the period of three years, joint cooperation is expected to be established in order to enable the medium and long-term improvement of the last mile connection of the outermost rural and peripheral areas of Central Europe with the Trans-European transport corridors, thus ensuring stronger territorial cohesion.
As part of the pilot activities, the Port of Rijeka Authority will prepare the expansion and modernization of the existing system and integration of a new system for issuing digital cards for access to the port’s operational area. The acquisition of new equipment will provide port users with an easier and more practical way of obtaining permits with efficient use of time and material resources, optimization of transport flows to/from the port of Rijeka, reduction of congestion at the port entrance.
Project partners
Leading partner – Port Network Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea
PP2 – ZAILOG scarl
PP3 – Eastern Ligurian Sea Port Authority
PP4 – Luka Koper, port and logistic system, public limited company
PP5 – Port of Rijeka Authority
PP6 – Logistics Center Austria South
PP7 – MAHART Container Center Ltd.
PP8 – National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications
PP9 – Baltic Container Terminal Ltd.
PP10 – Gruber Logistics Poland
PP11 – Rostock Port GmbH