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the ports of Barcelona, Genoa and Marseilles throw again their Intermed alliance
the association is constituted in 1998
October 11, 2013
Today to Barcelona the presidents of the Harbour Authorities of the Catalan city have met, Sixte Cambra, of Genoa, Luigi Merlo, and of Marseilles, Jean Claude Terrier, with the scope to throw again Intermed, the alliance constituted in 1998 from the three harbour ports of call with the objective to develop standards common in the optical to optimize the resources and to assert the requests of the ports of southern Europe in center EU.
The Harbour Authority of Genoa has explained that "the association not never was taken off truly for the difficulties of institutional order of the port of Marseilles, today exceeded thanks to the new French harbour law that has given autonomy to the port of call hard. The main scope of this renewed union - it has specified the agency - is that to face with the great total changes of the traffics and to construct a solid alternative to the ports of the Europe north. The association has between the objectives the made available one of the success factors, the editing of specific studies of the reference market, the joint action regarding the communitarian institutions with particular reference to the European regulations on the portualità currently in argument, the application of new technologies beginning from the LNG".
"Draft - it has emphasized the president of the harbour agency genoese Luigi Merlo - of an epochal passage. They are particularly happy for the concrete start of this collaboration on which they were working give beyond a year. Even though the normative picture of the three Countries is various and that at the level of governments a lot for omogeneizzare the policies must be still made, we have anticipated an unavoidable road that he orients himself on two guiding fundamental ones: to re-balance the harbour development in Europe between north and south and to inside consolidate a strategy of the Mediterranean with particular reference to the development of the economies Middle Eastern Africans and". "I am sure - he has concluded Merlon - than this initiative will contribute also to improve the argument on the normative new harbour Italian who in this moment appears absolutely inadequate regarding the great challenges of the globalization".
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