the Harbour Authority of the East participates to the "2nd Annual Port Expansion Summit", that it is in development yesterday and today to Istanbul, with the objective to promote the role of gateway for the Europe that the harbour Network of the East, constituted from the ports of call of Bari, Barletta and Monopolies, covers regarding the flows worldwide that they cross Turkey. The three proposals launch from the apulian harbour agency to the convention, that it is dedicated to the harbour development in Turkey and the Black Sea, figure the activation of an intermodal line with Turkey, communitarian the combined participation to notices and the strengthening of the European group of economic interest Med-Port Community with increase to the Turkish ports.

the participation to the summit - the president of the Harbour Authority of the East has explained, Francesco Mariani - constitutes "an occasion of opening to the dialogue and the new opportunities of increase to euro-Mediterranean level. Turkey is a strategic interlocutor in the system of the sustainable transport". The apulian harbour agency has remembered that today the coming flows that cross the ports of Bari, Barletta and Monopolies from Turkey pass for Greece, while with the support at the opening of new marine lines that the costs connect the Apulia to Turkey, the polluting emissions and the street congestions they would be very more contents, approximately the 30% in less regarding the current ones.

Marian has evidenced the importance to increase the intermodal traffic from and for Turkey it is with type ships ro-pax that ro-ro. In order to develop to the relations and the opportunities offered from the markets foreign countries, over recent years the Harbour Authority of the East has been equipped of an unit of international and communitarian planning that has the scope to develop the activities of international cooperation and to approach deep communitarian and the international ones. The apulian agency has specified that also with Turkey there would be the possibility to participate to notices kinsmen, which Marco Polo II and for example Maritime Spatial Planning, with the scope to stimulate broken new, more economic and ambientalmente sustainable, reducing the costs of the enterprises and contributing to the development of the traffics.

"is not the first turns has explained Marian - than the Harbour Authority of the East it converses with Turkey, however this stage in ancient Constantinople can mark an important moment". The participation to the Turkish event, among other things, has not been limited in the participation to the summit, but it is continued with a series of B2B encounters with economic operators and marine and street transport in order to estimate times and ways of activation of a line ro-ro/pax with Bari. The encounters - the apulian harbour agency has announced - have evidenced the necessity to establish a permanent dialogue between Turkey and Bari for two orders of reasons: first it is that Turkey is in the full load of its economic leap and has not suffered of collapse of the traffics to total level and indeed in the past couple of years has seen an increase of the traffics; the second is that, although an increase of the traffics, has had a contraction of clean the operating margins for the operators, that a series complains of bottlenecks, had to the increase of the costs and a logistic row not own rational and rather frammentata.