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the German Kathrin Obst will be the new director of the European Federation of Inland Ports
It will assume the assignment on 1° November
September 19, 2013
The next 1° November the German Kathrin Obst will assume the assignment of director of the European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP) having succeeded to Isabelle Ryckbost who has become general secretary of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO).
Kathrin Obst has worked for three years near the railway association European Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies (CER) and previously near the Commission and the Council of the European Union.
"I receive on board with much pleasure Kathrin", the president of EFIP, Jean-Louis Jérôme has asserted. "Kathrin Obst - he has added - has a solid experience in the public relations in center EU, politics of the transports and has a groundbreaking acquaintance of the railroads and the railway policies. Even if the internal ports are characterized mainly by their connections with internal the navigable ways, they are more and more developing itself which multimodali nodes in the outback. The railway experience of mrs. Obst will represent a real asset for our organization. I am sure that the EFIP will be of new in good hands".
"They are very happy - Kathrin Obst has declared - for becoming a member the EFIP. The transport on the navigable ways, very similar to the rail shipment, is sustainable and in the next few years it will have to grow and to be developed if they will have to be reached the environmental objectives of the field of the transports. I do not see the hour to work with the EFIP and our interlocutors in the European institutions in this challenge exciting".
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The next 1° November the German Kathrin Obst will assume the assignment of director of the European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP) having succeeded to Isabelle Ryckbost who has become general secretary of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO).
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
