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Memorandum of understanding of NAPA for the development of the ports of Koper, Rijeka, Trieste and Venice
Previewed the mutual support to all the infrastructural projects of development of every port
December 16, 2013
Today, in occasion of the assembly anniversary, the ports of the North Adriatic Ports Association (NAPA) have undersigned a memorandum of understanding characterizing priority, must and demanded of the associated ports to introduce to Europe and the Member States. The first objective is that "to make to feel own voice and to be ready to cover the role of fundamental node for the European infrastructural net".
The strategic agenda of NAPA previews a series of concrete initiatives that set the objective to take advantage of the European and national norms at best, in order progressively to increase the forms of cooperation and efficiency of NAPA. The document previews "an increase of scale of activity of the portualità Alto Adriatica that, in terms of traffics container, cannot be inferior to the triplicamento of the scale of current activity (from 2 to 6 million teu) within 2030". "An approachable objective - it is evidenced in the document - provided that Alto Adriatico fully take advantage of the fact that the harbour arc that goes from Rijeka to Venice around serves a circular field of market between the 300 and the 500 kilometers that give the sea go from Rome to Sarajevo passing for Milan, Lyon, Basel, Monk of Bavaria, Vienna, Budapest, Ljubljana, Zagreb and Belgrade. An exploitable condition on condition that the infrastructural conditions are created and of efficiency that is profitable convenient to the oceanic ships to touch the portualità Alto Adriatica oriental (Trieste, Koper, Rijeka) and western (Venice) and with the possibility to consider the ports of call as pertaining to a multiharbour system".
The memorandum sanctions also the sharing and the mutual support to all the infrastructural projects of development of every port. Moreover, for being able to finance the development the ports will be engaged to participate jointly to projects of European co-financing in logic of strengthening of the existing cooperation, as moreover already happened with success in the years precedence with the projects financed from the European Agency IT TRY.
The agreement previews that NAPA moreover dowries of an environmental protocol of compatible development, based on the lines guides of "strategy EU2020". In concrete terms, it will be proceeded to the creation of masterplan on the use of the LNG (a natural gas which liquified) and in general terms on the alternative fuel use with the objective to pull down the emissions and to contribute to create efficient and sustainable logistic chains from the environmental point of view.
As for the services INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, NAPA will continue on the road already undertaken, thanks to the project Its Adriatic Multiport Gateway (creation of a prototype of common computer science platform), in the harmonization of the procedures and the services. The INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY will allow with the ports of being completely connected between they in order to create a door of efficient access.
They will come at last realized new studies and analyses with the objective to deepen the contendibile market potential and in order to define the correct positioning of the ports of NAPA in recently redesigned the European logistic chain from the EU and that it previews the realization of the new net TRY within 2030. To light of the results, the ports will move jointly in order to support their presence on the markets and in order to draw every possible advantage in the being recognized from the operators of shipping the which better door to south for the access (import/export) to the European markets.
While the co-financing by the agency is communicated today TRIES for the ports of Venice and Koper with beyond 1,2 million euros (of which 532 thousand euros for Venice) in the within of the project "Napadrag" for the improvement of nautical accessibility of the two ports of call.
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Today, in occasion of the assembly anniversary, the ports of the North Adriatic Ports Association (NAPA) have undersigned a memorandum of understanding characterizing priority, must and demanded of the associated ports to introduce to Europe and the Member States. The first objective is that "to make to feel own voice and to be ready to cover the role of fundamental node for the European infrastructural net".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
