The Port Authority Port Authority Board unanimously approved the Levant 2011-2013 POT

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Today, the Port Authority Port Committee of the Levant has unanimously approved the Operational Plan Triennial 2011-2013. The port authority has explained that the pot puts efforts to develop transport in the next three years by the general scenario of crisis, identifying some strategic choices to address the current situation in a positive way, and takes as its starting point from which the document signed jointly by the Port Authority of Brindisi, Taranto and by the Regional Transportation to common premise is that the operational plans of the two ports and provides for joint actions of different materials in order to increase the profile of the ports in the various offices in Apulia national and international level.

The Port Authority has clarified that the POT 2011-2013 aims to work on the strengths that already in these years, have enabled the ports of Bari, Barletta and Monopoly in a positive way to resist the blows of economic crisis, ie the privileged relationship with the Balkans and South Eastern Europe to the Caucasus republics, the diversification of trade and the flexibility in the use of port areas as well as strong focus on standards of services offered.

This consolidation strategy of "niche" market to which the ports of the Levant reference - he said the port authority - provides a series of infrastructure for which adjustments are ongoing planning activities and the acquisition of the necessary permissions. Among them worthy of note, in addition to the completion of Marisabella filled, now the eve of the opening of the shipyard, the doubling of the cruise terminal, the new wharf extension of the dock in the western port of Bari, the extension of Pier Tramontana Barletta and the redevelopment of Pier Tramontana root of Monopoly and a generalized campaign of maintenance dredging to ensure the full utilization of ports.The pot also addresses the issue of integration between port and territory noting the economic impact of ports already have extensive area in which they insist. It shall act to consolidate a model of "governance" according to the type of "Port Authority, Community Manager," namely a power management mode based on the involvement of all economic, social and institutional structures at local level and on the constant verification of the effectiveness of the decisions taken.

The Plan, reaffirming the public interest underlying the proper use of state property, includes the use of certain portions of the port areas for recreational purposes, and then contemplating recreational use "urban" of the ports next to the commercial function.

The plan also provides for the development of international cooperation activities that have already seen the Port Authority of East protagonist of several projects at Community level and inter-areas near the Adriatic and, noting the centrality of human resources to promote, within of existing instruments, a widespread campaign of training and retraining aimed at raising the contribution of the "work" for the purpose of improving the efficiency, productivity and safety of the activities that take place in port.