Networks & Infrastructure
Modern and resilient infrastructure is the foundation of economic competitiveness and the strengthening of productive activity. SEV places particular emphasis on improving the country’s connectivity and reducing the operating and transportation costs of businesses. A key priority is the upgrading of transport networks and the effective interconnection between regional and national networks, industrial areas, logistics hubs, ports, and the railway network.
- Transport: Upgrading road, rail, air, maritime and combined transport infrastructure to enhance competitiveness and realise the country’s potential as a transit hub.
- Supply chain: Mobilising private and public investment in logistics infrastructure, combined transport and the digital transformation of the sector, to leverage the country’s geo-economic advantages in the global and European supply chain. Accelerating reforms to upgrade the local 3PL ecosystem.
- Resilient infrastructure: Strengthening infrastructure in industrial and business clusters, as well as the capacity of transport networks to operate uninterrupted under conditions of crisis, extreme weather events or increased loads, with the aim of ensuring the continuous flow of goods and productive activity.
- Integrated transport plan: Drawing up a comprehensive transport infrastructure project plan to increase productivity and support freight transport and exports.
- Transport costs: Reducing transport costs through infrastructure upgrading, route optimisation to reduce traffic congestion and the use of combined transport.
- Combined transport: Developing combined transport for international freight flows, incorporating the principles of connectivity and green transition.
- Acceleration of PPPs aimed at upgrading services, key infrastructure and transport, energy, telecommunications, water supply and waste management networks, with emphasis on interconnections between regional and national infrastructure.
- Freight centres: Accelerating the development of supply chain hubs and parks through fast-track investments, the removal of bureaucratic obstacles and the upgrading of necessary infrastructure — particularly at strategically important nodes such as ports and railway stations.
- Participation in proposals for the revision of Greece’s National Strategic Transport Plan.
- Specification of priorities for the Supply Chain Development and Competitiveness Council.
- Continuation of targeted interventions to upgrade transport infrastructure and interconnections in areas of high industrial and logistics concentration.
- Systematic upgrading of transport interconnections in zones of concentrated productive and logistics activity.
- Institutional recognition of specialised port infrastructure serving productive activities and simplification of siting, licensing and space concession procedures.
- Revision of the Supply Chain Regulatory Framework (Law 4302/2014).
- Ensuring the eligibility criteria of infrastructure projects in financing tools to facilitate access to funding.
Licensing, Spatial Planning & Infrastructure Committee: The Committee serves as the technical advisory body of the SEV Board in the formulation, substantiation and consultation of policy positions and proposals with public administration and other competent authorities.
Its objective is to highlight spatial planning and infrastructure networks as a prerequisite for investment attractiveness and sustainable development, and to improve the investment environment through the modernisation and simplification of business start-up and operating procedures, the advancement of proposals to reduce administrative burdens and licensing costs, as well as the prompt integration of all technological and related developments into the relevant procedures.
A further objective is the elaboration and determination of policy proposals for evaluating the progress of spatial planning implementation for Renewable Energy Sources installations (Special Spatial Framework for RES and Regional Spatial Frameworks), as well as the formulation of comprehensive proposals within the context of planning revision and the exploration of proposals for the integration of new RES technologies (such as offshore energy installations and green and blue hydrogen technologies).
Particular emphasis is placed on the role of infrastructure and transport in the productive functioning of the economy. The Committee elaborates proposals for the development and interconnection of transport infrastructure, logistics networks and the country’s trade gateways, with the aim of ensuring the efficient flow of goods between industrial clusters, distribution centres (B2B and B2C), ports and international transport networks.
