The infrastructural connections constitute a game essential in order to upgrade the economic relations of Italy with the area of the Mediterranean



Today to Naples, near the center of the Study, Bank of Naples and Search for Southern Italy (SRM), center studies connected to the Intesa Sanpaolo group, has introduced the first annual report "the economic relations between Italy and the Mediterranean" that it in particular collects the results of the constant monitoring and the more meaningful analyses of the Permanent Observatory of SRM on the economic relationships between Italy (and Southern Italy) and the Countries extra European Union that appears on the basin of the Mediterranean.

In the specific one, they are the three Mediterranean areas object of the investigation of SRM: the area Southern Med (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt), the area Eastern Med (Israel, Libano and Turkey) and the area Adriatic Med (Albania, Bosnia and Croatia). And three are also the types of economic relations from and towards Italy analyzed: commercial dynamics, than in the volume is described through a macroeconomic framework of area MENA and a detailed analysis of the commercial interchange with Italy; the money movements, are in entrance (the deep monarchs) that in escape (the remittances of the immigrants) from Italy; and at last, the infrastructural connections, taking in consideration the analysis of the flows of marine traffic, the harbour and retroportuali systems and, on the energetic topic, the new nets and corridors.

In the course of the convention, that he is opened by president of SRM, Paolo Scudieri, and from the general manager of the Bank of Naples, Giuseppe Castagna, the general manager of SRM, Massimo Deandreis, has introduced the relationship, that he evidences as Italy is the first commercial partner of the Med Area with 63,3 billion euros, of which almost 30% it regards Southern Italy, while Germany and France are to the second and third party place respective with 52,4 and 46 billion euros. However, to clearly of the energetic interchange, Italy comes down from the first to the third party place with 35,9 billion euros, preceded from Germany and France with respective 46,7 and 37,1 billion euros. The forecasts to the 2013 see the Italian interchange with the Med Area to grow to 82,3 billion euros.

The relationship emphasizes moreover as 37% of the export Italian are realized for marine way, of which a quarter it is directed to the Countries of the Mediterranean, and as the infrastructural connections they constitute a game essential in order to upgrade the economic relations with the area of the Mediterranean.

Beginning from years ‘90 of the last century, the Mediterranean has found again its central position in the world-wide traffics thanks to the progressive displacement of the barycentre of the total economy towards the Far East, having arrived to intercept about 15% of the world-wide traffic of goods. Such circumstance - the relationship finds - has had an sensitive impact on the harbour traffic of the Italy, which it demands a greater efficiency and quality of the services: , of in fact 1,4 billion tons of goods that journey in the Mediterranean, beyond a third party are loaded and unloaded in Italy, with Gioia Tauro who stops the Italian supremacy in container handling and it is to the third party place between the ports of the Mediterranean.

The marine exports of Italy towards the Countries of the Med Area constitute 25% of export the marine total and the commercial flows are concentrated above all in the Southern Med (for 55% in 2010). In this context - the relationship explains - there are wide margins of increase for the Italian ports hub (Gioia Tauro, but also Taranto and Cagliari). These must however be equipped in order to compete with greater effectiveness with the ports of the side south of the Mediterranean - Port Saïd in Egypt and Tanger Med in Morocco, above all - than between 2005 and the 2010 own to expenses of the Italian ports of call has recorded an increase of own market shares. To such fine - according to SRM - it is preventively necessary to face the topic of the retroportuali systems and of railway and road accessibility, putting into effect precise strategies, it is in terms of infrastructural investments (grounds and docks) is in terms of specializations of transport, as for example the Freeways of the Sea and the ferries ro-ro.

"The Mediterranean - it has observed Massimo Deandreis - could be our East Europe. Germany has had communitarian rates of growth higher than average and widely better than those Italians, also thanks to the fact that Eastern Europe is a wide market of outlet, by now stabilized and integrated in the European common market. The Relationship of SRM indicates to us more with clarity what, analogous, it could represent for Italy an area of the which appeased Mediterranean, democratic and integrated to Europe. The political uncertainties on these Countries do not have to prevent to us to be left over on this road because the economic importance of the basin of the Mediterranean goes very to beyond the data, also important, on the commercial interchange. From the investments of the deep monarchs of the Mena area to the remittances of the immigrants; from the strategic function of the Italian portualità to the data on the energetic interchange, the determining role emerges with clarity that can in particular play this area for the economy of our Country and Southern Italy".