Tomorrow to Genoa a workshop will be carried out on the Corridor 24 Genoa-Rotterdam



Tomorrow to the Saint George Palace of Genoa, center of the Harbour Authority, will hold a workshop on the European project "TAILS 24" (Corridor 24 Development Rotterdam – Genoa jib), than joins in the communitarian program Interreg IVB - North West Europe and is characterized by the EU commission as "strategic project" in consideration of its characteristics of transnazionalità, complexity, high profile and strategicità for the communitarian territory.

ll Corridor 24 Genoa - Rotterdam interests one of the richer territories of the European Union on which they reside about 70 million people. Esteem that every year journeys on this director about 700 million tons of goods. The opening of the tunnel of the Lötschberg in the 2007 and the Gottardo (wait for 2017) returns such Corridor one of the fundamental aces for Europe.

TAILS 24 Genoa - Rotterdam mostly under the profiles are proposed to analyze railway corridor 24 economic, infrastructural and environmental to the aims to evidence the current existing throttlings along such axis of communication, to characterize possible solutions and scenes of development, to emphasize the economic and social benefits deriving from the railway infrastructure and to develop to the potential railway connections between the two ports and the hinterland. Moreover, the project has the scope to promote debates with regard to the necessity of such transeuropeo corridor, through a concrete and formal cooperation of the territories crossed from this infrastructure, revolt to the development and economic-social integration of the regions interested from the corridor.

The project TAILS 24 formally is started with kick-off the meeting held on Mannheim on March 24, 2010, while on May 7, 2010, always to Mannheim, the inaugural conference has been carried out public to which they have participated about 250 delegated. The total budget of the project is pairs to 6,7 million euros and lead the partner is the Regional Agency of the Rhein-Neckar (Mannheim). The project will be concluded on December 31, 2013.

The Project 15 TAILS 24 involves partner that represent in prevalence localized territorial agencies and university in Holland, Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy: port of Rotterdam, University of Utrecht, University of Duisburg-Essen, University of Kehl, Transcare, RV Ruhr, RV Rhein-Main, VR Rhein-Neckar, Stadt Mannheim, TR Karlsruhe, ETH Zürich, PTV France, Uniontrasporti, Sites and Harbour Authority of Genoa.

The port of Genoa, door of access of 24 Corridor and harbour node on which the natural prosecuzione to sea of the Corridor is grafted, is involved as partner of the project and collaborates in particular to the development of inherent the economic analysis the Corridor and of the scenes of increase, to the location of the necks of bottle and the points of long criticality the Genoa-Rotterdam axis, let alone under consideration on the feasibility of new railway relations long-range between the port of Genoa and its hinterland.

Program
Program

9.00	Registration & Coffee
9.30	Welcome Addresses Giambattista D' Aste, General Secretary Port Authority of Genoa jib Ralph Schlusche, Director Verband Region Rhein-Neckar, 24 Tails Lead Partner
10.00	"Régional Voice in Corridor Development" Moderator: Fabio Capocaccia, President IIC, Genoa jib The New Italian Legal Framework and the role of port Authorities to better integrated the ports with their Hinterland (MoS 24), Giambattista D' Aste, General Secretary, Port Authority of Genoa jib Presentation 24 Tails Project, Christoph Trinemeier (Managing Director Verband Region Rhein-Neckar) Spatial Development Aspects, Bernhard Scholl, ETH, Zurich The Governance of the EU Corridors and Benefits for the Ligurian Port, Simona Costa, Director Brussel's Office Liguria Region The Importance of Hinterland Connections, Domenico Inaudi, SITES, Turin The implementation of Regulation (EC) 913/2012 concerning to European rail competitive Networks for freight on Corridor Rotterdam-Genoa jib, Stefan Wendel, Programme Director EEIG Genoa jib R'am Corridor
12.00	Q & TO
12.30	Lunch