the North Adriatic Ports Association (NAPA), the alliance between the ports of Koper, Rijeka, Triete and Venice, has participated as keynote newscaster to the international conference Asean Ports and held Shipping 2013 from the 10 to the 12 July slid to I have Who Minh City.

the Harbour Authority of Venice, than currently stops the presidency of NAPA, has introduced a relation from the title "North Adriatic serving the ASEAN markets: trends and prospects" to a composed international audience from harbour operators, journalists, total advisers of logistics, companies of navigation, producers of crane and means of harbour handling. Little - it has emphasized NAPA - the European harbour truths invited to take part against more than 30 relatori for the majority of the Asian continent, to testimony of the interest that the adriatic gateway is already successful to provoke in East with a promotion of system tested from years in this area. From the interaction with the public - it has explained the association - confirmation of the fact has been found that NAPA already is recognized like an only door of access for the flows between Asia and Centro Europa also like valid alternative to the ports of the North. Between the more interesting encounters of deepening that with Vietnam International Container terminal, of property singaporean and Japanese whom the traffic manages container in the main ports of the Country, and that with the Saigon Newport Authority that manages the port for which 40% of the traffic of the Country pass.

NAPA has remembered that, so as the ports of the association are bridge towards the richer basin of the EU, Vietnam enjoys an Geo-political-economic position that allows it to be the access door towards all the immense market of ASEAN: 600 million inhabitants, "new factory" of the Asian continent, an area that in 2018 will become an only market for the circulation of goods, people, capitals and servizi.