Marco Polo II

Period: 2007-2013

Budget: EUR 400 million

Marco Polo II is the successor of PACT (Pilot Actions on Combined Transport) and Marco Polo I programmes. It is broader in scope than its predecessors, both in terms of country coverage and type of actions included in the programme.

Marco Polo II continues to address the issue of constraining international road freight transport through effective short-term intervention (mainly 3-4 years project support duration, with lasting effects) by the use of practical logistics services projects. The nature of the programme, providing risk-reducing subsidies to market driven services, making the programme a typical Public Private Partnership, will remain.

Marco Polo II programme comprises five actions to achieve its operational objectives, the last two of which are new action types:

• Modal Shift Actions

• Catalyst Actions

• Common Learning Actions

• Motorways of the Sea

• Traffic Avoidance

Commercial undertakings from the current 25 EU Member States and “close third countries” such as all Candidate States, EFTA Countries as well as others due to their geographical proximity can fully participate in Marco Polo II upon signing bilateral agreements.

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