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the ports NAPA update own strategic plan characterizing priority, must and demanded to introduce to the EU
First encounter between the four ports of call of the association to Rijeka
October 10, 2013
The ports of the North Adriatic Ports Association (NAPA) - Koper, Rijeka, Trieste and Venice - have been declared satisfied from the reached infrastructural objectives and consecrated in the process of adoption of the new European regulation of the net IT TRY and the CEF (Connecting Europe Facility) and have announced to have established in business as update of own strategic plan characterizing priority, must and demanded to introduce to Europe and the Member States.
To such purpose, with the objective "to make to feel own voice and to be ready to cover the role of fundamental node for the European infrastructural net", the president of turn of the association, Paolo Costa, president of the Harbour Authority of Venice, have fixed a series of encounters with every associate port.
NAPA has explained that in the course of the technical encounters the agenda strategic of the association will be redefined to carry then to the approval in the shareholders' meeting of next 16 December, than will hold to Venice, having looked for to at best take advantage of the European and national norms and their harmonization, in order progressively to increase the forms of cooperation and efficiency of NAPA.
The first encounter has held to Rijeka (River). In the course of the reunion the first topics of cooperation for the next years are emerged, that they go from the environmental aspects, as the creation of a masterplan on the use of the LNG, to the harmonization of the procedures and the services, to the INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, let alone to an update of the studies on the market of reference or contendibile for Alto Adriatico. On the base of these priorities, the ports of NAPA will hold closely monitored the future opportunities of joint participation to projects of European co-financing in logic of strengthening of the existing cooperation, as moreover - the association has remembered - already happened with success for the project financed from the European Agency IT TRY, Its Adriatic Multiport Gateway (creation of a prototype of common computer science platform).
The next encounters will hold on 28 October to Koper and Trieste on 18 November.
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