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Gallanti (AP Livorno): it is necessary to extend the Freeways of the Sea to the side South of the Mediterranean
Encounter with the summits of the Agence Nationale of the Ports of Morocco
May 30, 2013
In occasion of the conference anniversary of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO), than it has been opened today to Vahrn, the president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, Giuliano Gallanti, that it is present to the event in representation of the Italian portualità on delegation of Assoporti, has met the general manager of the Agence Nationale of the Ports (ANP) of Morocco, Nadia Laraki, and the regional director of the port of Casablanca, Abdeslam Zeryouh, with the objective to create a thread directed with Morocco in order to develop a commercial axis on the rows strategic of the coolness and the new cars and to convince the EU commission to extend the Freeways of the Sea also to the nations of the side South of the Mediterranean.
"Livorno - it has found Gallanti - can become one of the Casablanca and points of reference of the Moroccan ports in particular. We are in fact studying the possibility to create a solid commercial relationship that connects the two ports of call directly. Already we have collected the interest of some operators and are developing partnership politics on the land of the technological, organizational and administrative innovation".
Emphasizing that the Maghreb and the Mediterranean in the near future are destined to carry out a primary role in the development of the traffics and that however still today the European Union not chip ax that can be to us a connection directed between the two sides of the Mediterranean through the Freeways of the Sea, Gallanti has specified that something is moving: "the EU - it has explained - is accepting the hypothesis to include the extra Countries inside EU of the Network of the MoS (Motorways of the Sea). Of it we have discussed today - the president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno has announced - with the representatives of directly interested ports, which Marseilles, Pireo, Barcelona: the solution is represented by the projects of cooperation as MOS4MOS, ITALMED, ENPI, than in the past they have afforded to Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco to inside acquire an active and propositivo role of the European Union and of ESPO".
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