Projects of common interest for motorways of the sea in the trans-European transport network may also include activities that have wider benefits and are not linked to specific ports, such as services and actions to support the mobility of persons and goods, activities for improving environmental performance, such as the provision of shore-side electricity that would help ships to reduce their emissions, making available facilities for ice-breaking, activities ensuring year-round navigability, dredging operations, and alternative fuelling facilities, as well as the optimisation of processes, procedures and the human element, ICT platforms and information systems, including traffic management and electronic reporting systems.
Féadfar a áireamh freisin ar thionscadail leasa choitinn do mhótarbhealaí na farraige sa ghréasán tras-Eorpach iompair gníomhaíochtaí a bhfuil sochair níos leithne acu agus nach bhfuil ceangailte le calafoirt shonracha, amhail seirbhísí agus gníomhaíochtaí chun tacú le soghluaisteacht daoine agus earraí, gníomhaíochtaí chun feidhmíocht chomhshaoil a fheabhsú, amhail leictreachas cois cladaigh a chur ar fáil lena gcuideofaí le longa a gcuid astaíochtaí a laghdú, saoráidí chun oighear a bhriseadh a chur ar fáil, gníomhaíochtaí lena n-áirithítear inseoltacht ar feadh na bliana go léir, oibríochtaí dreidireachta, agus saoráidí breoslaithe mhalartaigh, chomh maith le próisis, nósanna imeachta agus an ghné dhaonna a bharrfheabhsú, ardáin TFC agus córais faisnéise, lena n-áirítear bainistiú tráchta agus córais leictreonacha tuairiscithe.