Initiative of the port of Venice for the development of the marine traffics with Turkey



Today to Istanbul a convention has held on the topic "the Gateway of Venice for the Freeways of the Mediterranean. A winning model of cooperation Italian-Turk" promoted from the Harbour Authority of Venice with the objective to introduce the new terminal dedicated to the freeways of the sea and the traffic ro-pax goods and passengers to Fusina, that it will be operating from the end of 2013. The encounter has held to Venice Palace, residence of the ambassador of Italy to Istanbul, and has been organized thanks to the collaboration with the Embassy of Italy in Turkey, the ministry to the marine Transactions Turkish and office ICE of Istanbul.

Remembering that Turkey dominates the market of the ferries in the Middle East thanks to important economic rates of growth (+8.9% in the first nine months of 2010), the undersecretary to the Marine Transactions, Hasan Naibodlu, have emphasized as "89% of import-export of Turkey the travels by sea and the deep competitiveness of the Turkish transport on the ability to integrate the logistic chain for example joining the modalities ship and truck. We look with interest - it has added - to the logistic platforms dedicated to the traffics ro-ro (ferries goods) as that introduced from the Venetian port of call because they exactly represent this that serves. The Turkish operators look for infrastructural answers to the requirements of transport from and for Italy".

"The intensity of the commercial flows between the two Countries, that they have at this point recovered the deficit caused from the international crisis - has said the Italian ambassador in Turkey, Gianpaolo Scarante - is made more and more supported. Also in the field of the marine transports, as in that manufacturer, essential thing is time to support and to promote initiatives of partnership between Italy and Turkey times, on one side, to take advantage of the opportunities offered from the respective markets and, from the other, to for example explore jointly the potentialities of the markets third party as those of the Middle East and the Caucasus".

"The Adriatic - it has emphasized the president of the managing committee of the Turkish Chamber of Shipping, Metin Kalkavan - is to all purposes and effects the road that Turkey covers in order to approach Europe and if Venice puts to our disposition an infrastructure, a door of access, dedicated to ro-ro the Turkish operators of will be the first customer. Venice in fact will not for us represent only an arrival point for tourism, but the goods will become the specialistic port for all that this new terminal, and the other specialized terminals, will be able to receive".

The Harbour Authority of Venice has announced that from the office of the Turkish undersecretary a proposal for the constitution of a working group between Italy and the representatives of the main Turkish ports has reached. The collaboration will see involved moreover the Turkish Chamber of Shipping and the private operators are Italians who Turkish so that he can yourself be created to the development of projects kinsmen in marine and intermodal field, joining the expertise of the two Countries.