the ports on the Black Sea will constitute an alliance on the model of that adriatic one of NAPA



The ports on the Black Sea of Burgas, Constanta, Galati, Odessa and Vahrn will constitute an alliance on falsariga of that of NAPA (the North Adriatic Ports Association), the adriatic association that is instituted in 2009 and of which now the ports of Venice take part, Trieste, Koper, Rijeka ( of 11 November 2009).

In the course of the first international conference "Gateway to Europe - Black Sea Conference 2013", held monday slid to Krems an der Donau under the sponsorship of the federal government of the Austria Lowland, president of turn of the community of job ARGE Donau that collects all the Regions of the Danube macroarea (from Baden-Wuettenberg in Germany, to the delta of the Danube until Odessa, in Ukraina), NAPA is introduced for example excellent of cooperation and association between the ports. The results reached from the adriatic ports of NAPA in terms of economic increase and common strategy of positioning on the world-wide markets are introduced by the president of the Harbour Authority of Venice, Paolo Costa.

In occasion of the conference in Austria a memorandum of understanding of the five ports is introduced promoters Vahrn and Burgas in Bulgaria, Galati and Constanta in Rumania and the port extra-EU di Odessa with the community of the represented Danube region from the government of the Austria Lowland, that it includes ports of the Danube. The cooperation agreement previews the constitution of an association of the ports of the Black Sea western following the example offered from NAPA. The harbour ports of call have announced the creation of a permanent secretariat and the will to commission a masterplan of analysis of the potential question, on the trace of the study of market entrusted jointly from the ports NAPA to society MDS Transmodal of London.

Communitarian and extra the experience that joins Italian ports, communitarian (so as it will be for the ports of the Black Sea) is taken for example also for the job carried out in confronts of the European Union for the optimization of the transport corridors. As NAPA today is recognized which terminal to sea of the Adriatic-Baltic Sea corridor, so the ports of the Black Sea will be introduced joined as gateway of outlet of the Danube corridor.

The agreement is introduced to the combined presence of the vice Austrian chancellor with delegation to the international and European Transactions, Michael Spindellegger, of the ambassadors Ukrainian and Rumanian, the general secretary of the community of job of the Danube Regions, Peter de Martin, of vice-president of the European Investment Bank, Wilhelm Molterer, let alone of numerous stakeholder between which the railway, shipping operators specialized in the internal ways of water and the port of Vienna.