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Started on Cagliari project OPTIMED in order to strengthen the relations between the ports of the Mediterranean
the objective is to optimize the net of marine commerce
March 5, 2014
The 27 and 28 February slid to Cagliari are started operatingly project OPTIMED (Rationalising Mediterranean Sea Ways: from Southern-Eastern to Northern-Western Ports) that it has the scope to strengthen the connections between the ports of the Mediterranean thanks to the creation of a new way to cooperate between the nations of the northern coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the southern nations of the Mediterranean. In the specific one, the project heads to optimize the net of marine commerce through of the creation of a virtual platform of organized innovative logistics around ports established as hub ro-ro. The project is organized inside of the program Cross-Border Cooperation in the Mediterranean (CCMED) of the European Union with the financing of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI).
The kick-off it has assembled to Cagliari the representatives of the seven partner of the project. The reunion has had the scope to be left over in the work programme for the application of the seven activities previewed from the project: management and coordination; communication; capitalization of the results; design of a new system of net based on the hub; preliminary design of a new system of net; design and test of a system of information for a virtual logistic platform; reunion business to business between the economic actors.
The partner of project OPTIMED, than will conclude himself on December 31, 2015, is the Independent Region of the Sardinia, the University of Cagliari (CIREM), the Harbour Authority of Olbia and Golfo Aranci, the Association of Industry and Chambers of Commerce of Beirut and Monte Libano and the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports of the Lebanese. The European Escola de Short Sea Shipping will contribute with its experience in the formation for the transport of the goods. With the CCIA Beirut, the Escola will take care of 3 activity - Formation in short sea shipping, freeways of the sea and e-freight. Inside of the project the Escola will plan and carry out a program of formation for teacher of the Member States participants (Lebanese, Italy and Spain) and will organize a course pilot for professionals and administrators of the Mediterranean basin.
The next May, newly to Cagliari, will take place the official inauguration of the project with the participation of the maximum authorities of program ENPI-CBCMED and the Independent Region of the Sardinia.
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