Al via today to Cairo the EU-Egypt Task Force Meeting, to which the Harbour Authorities of Trieste, Taranto participate and Cagliari



Today to Cairo the first summit of two days of the EU-Egypt organized Task Force is begun Meeting jointly from vice-president of the EU commission, Antonio Tajani, and from the government Egyptian, to which the Harbour Authorities of Trieste, Taranto participate and Cagliari. They are moreover you anticipate coming delegations from many European Countries between which Slovenia, Hungary, Portugal, Republic Ceca and Denmark. The sessions of job and the B2B encounters are focused on the thematic ones of the logistics, of the international cooperation, tourism and the technological transfer.

As a result of the contacts had with the representatives of the government Egyptian, and in particular with the minister of the Planning and international cooperation, Ashraf Al Sayed Al Araby Abdel Fatah, with the minister of the Industry and the commerce, Hatem Abdel Hamid Mahmoud Saleh, with the minister of the Investments, Osama Abdel Moneim Mahmoud Saleh, and with the minister of tourism, Mohamed Hisham Abbas Zaazou, the president of the Harbour Authority of Trieste, present Marina Monassi to the summit, has remembered that "the idea to create a green corridor between Egypt and Europe through the Adriatic and the port of Trieste has been born already in 2004, in order to satisfy the increasing asks European of producing ortofrutticoli fresh. We are here - it has explained - in order to strengthen the collaboration between Trieste and Egypt in the agricultural and food- field. Trieste is the door of access for the import of many produced Egyptians between which potatoes. But producing are many other perishable that arrive to our port of call with destination Nord Europe. To case the agreement that we have signed a year ago with the port of Rostock does not explain also with the interest of the nordeuropei countries for the implementation of the logistics of the agricultural and food- produced ones and the perishable goods of Mediterranean origin".

From part its president of the Harbour Authority of Cagliari, Piergiorgio Massidda, has emphasized that the presence of the Sardinian harbour agency to the summit of Cairo "demonstrates once again which role our port is assuming in all the Mediterranean area, the enviable geographic position of ago a natural hinge between Europe and Nord Africa and we - has concluded - are engaged in front line to develop to full load all the up to now unexpressed potentialities".