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The ports of Barcelona, Genoa and Marseilles have sped up the EU to re-balance the net TRY in favor of the ports of call of the South
Terrier: the ports of the western Mediterranean would have to be considered as a true alternative to the ports of the Europe North
November 21, 2012
Last week to Brussels the Intermed association, that it groups the ports of Barcelona, Genoa and Marseilles, has introduced in center EU paper "the The Role of Mediterranean Ports in achieving greater sustainability and efficiency in European transport and logistics Networks" and has defended the role of the Mediterranean ports in the picture of the transeuropee nets of transport TRIES.
In front of the members of the Commission TRAN of the European Parliament, of the Europe Commission, to the permanent representation of the region HE SOOTHES near the EU and of the association of the European ports and other agencies and organisms, the president of Intermed, Jean Claude Terrier, that he is general manager of the port of Marseilles-Fos, has emphasized as the ports of the western Mediterranean would have to be considered as a true alternative to the ports of the Europe North.
In particular Terrier, placed side by side for the port of Barcelona from assistant general manager Santiago Garcia-Milà, president of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO), and for the port of Genoa from the general secretary Giambattista D' Aste, has evidenced as the review in existence of the net TRIES and of its mechanism of financing it would have to constitute the occasion in order to re-balance the net in favor of the ports of the South with the objective to construct a more efficient and sustainable European system logistic. "If this loss of balance is not rectified - it has observed the president of Intermed - the European Union fails its objective to reduce the emissions of established 60% in White Paper on the Transports". With such fine - it has found - the European Union would have to support the development of infrastructural connections that allow to create the conditions for a fair competition between the European ports. Terrier has remembered that within the 2015 ports of Barcelona, Genoa and Marseilles they will per year have an ability to handling of the container pairs to 17 million teu, ability that will confirm the Mediterranean gateway constituted by the three ports which real alternative to the nordeuropei marine ports of call.
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Last week to Brussels the Intermed association, that it groups the ports of Barcelona, Genoa and Marseilles, has introduced in center EU paper "the The Role of Mediterranean Ports in achieving greater sustainability and efficiency in European transport and logistics Networks" and has defended the role of the Mediterranean ports in the picture of the transeuropee nets of transport TRIES.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
