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It begins according to cycle of presidencies of the North Adriatic Ports Association
Reunion to Koper, port that has assumed the guide of the association from on 1° July
July 11, 2012
Today to Koper a reunion of the North Adriatic Ports Association (NAPA has held), organism constituted in November 2009 from the ports of Koper, Ravenna, Trieste and Venice to which a year has joined after the port of Rijeka. The encounter has happened in coincidence with the term of the first cycle of alternation to the guide of the association by the five ports: the charter of NAPA previews in fact that every port assumes the presidency of the organization for the duration of six months. The new cycle so is started with the presidency assumed on 1° July from the port of Koper.
In occasion of reunion is be made the point on attainment of objectives of association, between which - one of the more important - it has been the obtaining of the acknowledgment by the EU commission of the ports of the Adriatic North the which "Cores ports" of the trans-European net of transport TRY, that is which one of the more important entry points of the European market. The association has evidenced that the EU commission has confirmed such decision also with the proposal for the Cores Corridors Network of TRIES and with the connection of the ports of NAPA (with exclusion of the Croatian port of Rijeka, not being still part of the European Union) to the corridors the Adriatic-Baltic Sea and the Mediterranean. This - it has evidenced NAPA - is extremely important in particular because the Member States can so benefit of deep European and of resources for the construction of railway connections with the hinterland.
NAPA has at last emphasized that last year the five ports of the association have enlivened altogether a traffic of the goods pairs to 124,2 million tons, setting themselves to the quarter place in Europe for volume of traffic behind of the ports of Rotterdam (434,0 million tons), Antwerp (187,1 million) and Amburgo (132,2 million). The traffic of the container enlivened in 2011 from the ports NAPA has been pairs to 1,8 million teu, figure - it has specified the association - a lot distant from the market potential and the objective of about six million teu approachable from the ports of the Adriatic North within 2030.
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