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A Spanish delegation of the European School of Short Sea Shipping has visited the port of Genoa
They pile to four billions of euro the investments in the port of Barcelona in period 2000-2015
April 15, 2011
Today a Spanish delegation of the European School of Short Sea Shipping, guided from the director Eduard Rodés and president Sixte Cambra, that he is president of the Harbour Authority of Barcelona, has reached Genoa for a visit to the port of the capital of Liguria and for a reunion of own managing committee that is composed of represented of the Harbour Authorities of Barcelona, Genoa and Civitavecchia let alone of the societies of Great navigation Navi Veloci (GNV) and Grimaldi Group that services of line for goods and passengers between Italy and Spain operate.
The visit has been occasion for confronts between the systems of governance of the ports of Genoa and Barcelona. The president of the genoese Harbour Authority, Luigi Merlo, has emphasized as the harbour model of adopted organization in Spain is from taking for example. The Iberian nation has assigned in fact in measure increasing forms of autonomy to the Harbour Authorities to which, with the law of adopted reform last year, that autonomy is guaranteed financial institution that the Italian harbour agencies invoke from some years ( on 25 May 2010).
The port of Barcelona - Sixte Cambra has confirmed, that he has assumed the assignment of president of the Spanish harbour agency 25th January - realizes investments through a financially independent system. Port Authority Catalan retrieves such resources through own cash flow, that it is of about 80-90 million euros per year, and through the resource to loans lavished from the European Investment Bank (BEAUTIFUL), in whose it confronts is become indebted for 490 million euros.
In period 2000-2015 the investments in the port of Barcelona pile to four billions of euro, of which the coming halves from the Harbour Authority and half from the private ones. Between today and the 2015 Catalan harbour agency it will invest 500 million euros and as many investments will be carried out by the private sector, between which figure that of the group Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) for the new container terminal that will be realized to the Muelle Prat ( on 19 October 2010).
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Today a Spanish delegation of the European School of Short Sea Shipping, guided from the director Eduard Rodés and president Sixte Cambra, that he is president of the Harbour Authority of Barcelona, has reached Genoa for a visit to the port of the capital of Liguria and for a reunion of own managing committee that is composed of represented of the Harbour Authorities of Barcelona, Genoa and Civitavecchia let alone of the societies of Great navigation Navi Veloci (GNV) and Grimaldi Group that services of line for goods and passengers between Italy and Spain operate.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
