To Rome they are introduced proposed for a strategy of the sea and a blue economy in the Adriatic-Ionic Corridor



Today the Federation of the Sea and Confitarma Adriatic-Ionic Corridor has accommodated to Rome the encounter ": proposals for a strategy of the sea and organized a blue economy" in the within of IV the edition of the "Festival of the Diplomacy" that gives the 9 on 18 October analyzes several topics of politics, economy and international relations under the high patronage of the Presidency of the Republic and with the sponsorship of the ministry of Foreign countries, of the representation in Italy of the Commission and the European Parliament, of numerous embassies, university, partner scientific, public companies and private.

Carlo Lombardi, general secretary of the Federation of the Sea, in its introductory participation, after to have remembered that Adriatic and Ionian they connect the territories of seven countries (Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, members of the EU, and Montenegro, Albania and Bosnia-Herzegovina), has emphasized the interest of all the Italian marine cluster for the development of relative projects to an area of great relief as it is the Adriatic-Ionic Corridor. In purpose Lombardic he has remembered that between the Italian regions the Friuli-Venezia Giulia is to the third party place for importance of the marine activities regarding those total ones. In particular, in the field of the shipbuilding the Friuli-Venezia Giulia has one of the most elevated degrees than specialization with 42.1% of the attache's who work on a national level in the section. Veneto is to according to place for the harbour activities, while in the field of Venetian fishing, Apulia and Marche they are respective second, the third and fourth region on a national level. At last, with reference to the shipowning fleet, the Marche regions and Emilia Romagna are placed in third and fifth position.

They are taken part: Andrea Vitolo, member for Italy of the group "Contact point" of the ministries of Foreign countries of the countries of the European Union, to which the coordination of the New strategy for Mare Adriatico and the Ionian Sea adopted from the EU commission in 2012 is entrusted; Enrico Pujia, Maria Isabella Verardi, Annalisa Zarattini and Lucio D' Amore, in quality of "Focal Point" of the ministries of Infrastructures and transports, Agriculture and peach, Arts and tourism, and Prime Minister's Office.

The ambassadors of Albania, Bosnia Hercegovina, Croatia, Greece, Montenegro and Slovenia, and the representatives of institutions (private Harbour offices, Emilia Romagna Region), associations (Assoporti, Federpesca, Consar) and operators and publics (Fincantieri, Grimaldi Group, RAM) have illustrated the proposals times to a fast approval of contained the Adriatic-Ionic strategy in the declaration of Brussels on May 27, 2013 time to use more aimed and efficient than institutions, deep and normative on environmental policies and of the marine transport. The objective is that to arrive to an immediate approval of the strategy in sight of the presidency of the European Union that in 2014 will be up to Greece and Italy.

In particular, Paul Kyprianou, in charge of the external relations of the shipowning group Grimaldi, has asserted that the marine connections in the Adriatic and the Ionian one are vital for the exchange of goods and passengers between western Europe and the area of the Balkans. So that these flows grow ulteriorly are necessary a determined action of the Member States in order to upgrade harbour infrastructures and the connections with the hinterland in the Adriatic-ionic area. "Not less important, also for this area - it has found - would be the communitarian policies for the introduction of a ecobonus European that favors the transfer of the traffic goods from the road to the sea, and for destruction of obsolete ferries, and therefore more polluting, with echo-more sustainable units, answering to the international measures in order to reduce the sulfur content in marine fuels".