the Region Friuli Venice Julia intends to reactivate the marine service with Slovenia and Croatia



, connection that during the last few years and in summer 2013 is operated by the Trieste Lines, branch of Ustica Lines. In occasion of the opening of the encounter between the delegations of the nations involved in the project EASeaWay (Europe Adriatic Sea Way), held yesterday to the Starhotels Savoia Excelsior Palace of Trieste, the regional city council member to Mobility, Mariagrazia Santoro, has announced that "in sight of the next summery season the Region sets the objective to reactivate international the marine service with deep Slovenia and Croatia being used the Europeans allocated from the strategic project which put on EASeaWay and adding 110 thousand euros in the last Financial institution". "Deep - it has added - that they can supply an ulterior possibility of development through new experimentations of connection, adding to the traditional destinations of Pirano and Rovinj resort as Pula (already head in period 2011-2012) and the Brioni Islands".

EASeaWay, of the duration of 28 months, is approved of by the program of cross-border cooperation Ipa Adriatic Cbc 2007-2013, with a total financing of 6,6 million euros and, besides the Region Friuli Venice Julia (lead partner of the project) and to Informest, participates the Harbour Authorities to you of the East and Ancona, the Regions Marche, Abruzzi and Molise, the Province of Ravenna and, for the Venetian Region, Territorial Systems Spa. Slovenia, Bosnia and Serbia are anticipate with the faculties of Transports of the University of Ljubljana, Sarajevo and Belgrade, Croatia with the administrations of Dubrovnik, Istria and Fiume, let alone with the Shovelled port of. The other involved ports are that Montenegrin of Bar and that of Igoumenitsa that represents the Greek compages together with the agency pearl European cooperation ERFC, while Albania participates with the Infrastructure and Ministry of Transportation and Agency of local economic development, Teuleda.

The Santoro city council member has remembered that "the Region coordinates the project, approved of on October 16, 2013, and she takes care, among other things, of an action pilot for the activation of fleeting marine services of transport along the Trieste-Slovenia-Croatia axis. To such purpose, in 2008 before and 2011 then, with procedure of public evidence - he has remembered - the shipowner for the marine connection with Pirano and Rovinj is selected, a service that has obvious tourist glares but also an impact of social type, from the moment that, to light of the economic crisis, in this way many people have given a renowned trip by sea back resort of the Istria". Mariagrazia Santoro has evidenced that the service is "of excellence and online with the purposes of EASeaWay" and has found that to testify the valence of the initiative is the increment of 40% of the passengers in the summer of 2013 regarding that of 2012, with a total of 25 thousand unit against the decrease of the days of a service that however has been confirmed.