Coast: the importance of the harbour system NAPA is confirmed by the insertion in two main runners EU and the services of the P3 Network



"The approval, last week to Strasbourg, of the regulations TRIES that they consecrate Alto Adriatico as marine root of two of the nine European essential runners and announcement almost official that the P3 Network (the alliance between the three greater companies container of the world) will include also the ports of Koper, Trieste, and River in their services To make East-Europe, us confirmation that the strategy NAPA is giving its yields, even if of the services of the P3 they benefit alone half of the ports of Alto Adriatico". It has declared Paolo Costa, president in charge of the North Adriatic Ports Association (NAPA) and president of the Harbour Authority of Venice, in occasion of the today's presentation to Brussels, in the center of the European Parliament, the conclusive event of the project ITS NAPA that has been organized from NAPA in collaboration with the center of the Venetian Region to Brussels and the European Parliament thanks to the support of the deputy Antonio Cancian.

"The inclusion of the adriatic ports between the ports of call of so an important player, as the P3 Network - it has added Coast - is the confirmation of the interest of the great companies of navigation towards the Adriatic. Now it is to we to carry to term all the infrastructural projects necessary in order to be ready to receive, also on the western side of the Adriatic, the coming ships from Far East".

Project ITS NAPA, of the value of 1,4 million euros and co-financed to 50% from the European Program TRIES, has allowed to harmonize the services of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) of the five ports involved (Venice, Trieste, Ravenna, Luka Koper and Rijeka) through a prototype of common computer science platform that it offers to the operators of shipping a service integrated of import/export of the goods: a concrete example of realization of an immaterial infrastructure between logistic nodes already wished from the European Union.

Tomorrow the presentation will continue in the center of the Region Venetian to Brussels with a more technical cut and face to inside illustrate the concrete results of project ITS Adriatic Multiport Gateway and to the analysis of the future development of the Freeways of the Sea of the new net of transports designed from the EU.

"In order to make a good job in Europe and in order to obtain turned out important - it has commented europarlamentare Antonio Cancian - it must that Alto Adriatico speaks with an only voice. In this optical the creation of the association NAPA is a far-sighted truth. There is need, however, of greater concreteness and to do so as that NAPA can speak on behalf of all the protiums about Alto Adriatico through the realization about agreements and the definition about strategies. The times must be very fast and not to run the risk to arrive behind schedule since from on 1° January of 2014 it leave the new programming financial institution that we have approved of in EU own this week. In the short possible time, in order not to lose important opportunities, it must introduce sustainable projects in terms economic, environmental and social and shared inside a common strategy. The idea is good, but I fear expanded delays and agreements. Today there is the necessity to make this quality jump and the appointment of monday 25 serves in order to accelerate in this direction".