Thursday and Friday in Livorno the conference "Port Livorno new gateway between the Mediterranean and European economic centers of gravity"

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Thursday and Friday in Livorno, near the LEM Foundation will hold a conference on "Port Livorno new gateway between the Mediterranean and European economic centers of gravity. The opportunities for development and cooperation with Morocco "on the initiative of the Port of Livorno, Tuscany Region implementing agency, which spells out development activities and cooperation with Morocco in the field of logistics and freight transport carried out funded by the project Italmedia under the program of support to regional cooperation.

Morocco The project, coordinated by the Campania Region, the participation, as well as Tuscany, Friuli Venezia Giulia Lazio.The project's objective is to improve connections for commercial traffic between Italy and Morocco and the development of joint ventures aimed at improving the level and quality of services and to guide operators towards the use of solutions intermodal. In particular, strategies and actions for the integration of Euro-Mediterranean transport are confronted with profound changes of localization of production and consumption centers of gravity, compared to which the gateway ports, Livorno, in particular, play a crucial role. Compared to the increasing polarization of a few hub ports, even within the Mediterranean, ports spokes are not intended to margins and can become nodes in a network efficient multimodal transport, national and European level and beyond, but macro-regional and Mediterranean.

Program
Program

September 22, 2011

Working Table 1 - 16:00 to 19:00

NEW ROUTES AND GLOBAL EUROPEAN ECONOMIC GRAVITY: WHAT ARE THE GATEWAY PORTS?

Introductory greetings
George Kutufà
President of the Province of Livorno

Presentation of the Project "Italmedia"

Opens the work and moderates
Massimo Paoli
University of Perugia

Participants:

Prof. Marino Wolves
Polo Logistics Systems, University of Pisa

Ing Dario Aponte
For, LOGIC

Prof. Bahloul Bensi
University Hassan II, Casablanca, Morocco

Saddik Prof. Abderrahman
University Abdelmalek Essaada, Tetouan, Morocco

Prof. Renato Midoro
University of Genoa

Prof. Ennio Cascetta
University of Naples

September 23, 2011

Working Table 2 - 9:30 to 12:30

MEDITERRANEAN COOPERATION BETWEEN PORTS AND TEN-T POLICY REVIEW

Introductory greetings
Alessandro Cosimi
Mayor of Livorno

HE Hassan Abouyoub
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco in Italy

Moderator
Antonio Fulvi

Participants:

Giuliano Gallanti
President of the Port of Livorno

Francesco Nerli
President ASSOPORTI

Nadia Laraki
Director of the Agence Nationale des Ports of Morocco

Bartolomeo Giachino
Secretary, Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (tbc)

Working Table 3 - 14:00 to 18:00

STRATEGIES AND LOGISTICS OPERATORS OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES: THE STRATEGIC MEDITERRANEAN DIMENSION

Introductory greetings
Roberto Nardi
President Chamber of Commerce of Livorno

Moderator
Stephen Hens
Foreign Reuters Editor in Chief

Participants:

Cesare Trevisani
Vice President for Infrastructure Logistics and Mobility, CONFINDUSTRIA

Massimo D'Aiuto
Managing Director and General Manager, SIMEST

Mario Bruni
Senior Account Manager, SACE

Dr. Andrea Campaign
AREMOL

Nereo Marcucci
President Assologistica

Marco Susini
President Interporto Toscano "A. Vespucci "

Alessandro Ricci
President Interporto Bologna

Matthew Gaspar
President of Verona Interporto

Julius Frascatana
President of the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Morocco