the Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia has undersigned protocols of understanding with the Tunisian agency for the ports and with the Zai Consortium



The Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia has undersigned protocols of understanding with Office de Marine Marchande ET DES Ports (OMMP) of Tunisia and with the Zai Consortium of Verona. The agreement with the Tunisian public body previews to create to a combined activity, to develop to the different know-how-how and to improve the competitiveness of the harbour system. "The objective - the president of the OMMP, Imed Zammit has explained - is that to promote and to favor exchanges of experiences and commercial exchanges". "We already have - the president of the Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia-Fiumicino-Gaeta has explained, Pasqualino Monti - a line directed with trisettimanale Tunisi. Today we candidate ourselves to develop an ulterior collaboration in order to answer at best to the requirements of the market and to have approached, with structured common projects and more, to European financings". Objective, this - it has specified - to get ahead also with the port of Valencia, next port of call with which stipulating an understanding protocol, and with the Interporto of Verona, with which the understanding is signed.

Monti has specified that the agreement the Zai Consortium, that manages the Interporto Europe Quadrant, "is proposed to create to a collaboration for the development of a combined activity between the port of Civitavecchia and the Interporto Europe Quadrant of Verona in order to improve the competitiveness of the integrated system port/interporto and, more in general terms, to strengthen the national intermodal logistic system. This cooperation - it has added - intends is to value the synergies between the port of Civitavecchia and the Interporto Europe Quadrant of Verona, with the objective to develop to the intermodal transport sea-iron, online and coherence with the general principles of the European Union in matter of transports, is to increase the competitiveness of the infrastructural system of Italy center-northerner regarding the Italian and European market. In particular, between the activities previewed from the agreement the study and the appraisal of joint actions that see Consortium ZAI and Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia re-enter which partner and/or promoters in operations of development of logistic and/or intermodal platforms. The Italian paradox - it has found Monti - is that our markets of consumption are in good part served from the nordeuropei ports. With this agreement we intend to turn upside down the trend, serving from Civitavecchia, together with the interporto of Verona, the Italy north and the Europe center".

"One of the main objectives of the agreement - Pasqualino Monti and the president of the Consortium ZAI, Matteo Gasparato have explained - is that to develop to a customs corridor railway Civitavecchia-Verona waves to velocizzare the customs procedures and I forward it towards the customers and the international market in collaboration with the Agency of Customs". "Moreover - it has added Gasparato - it is objective municipality to promote the director of Civitavecchia-Verona transport and vice versa for the connection of harbour and logistic nodes and to participate together with "European calls" for the obtaining of communitarian financings in connection to the Corridors IT TRY". "An ulterior objective - it has concluded Gasparato - will be that to develop, also through the creation of a society of services of general interest, the management of the railway and intermodal services in harbour and retroportuale within to Civitavecchia to use after the intermodal transport for best accessibility to the corridor with the interporto of Verona. It will be useful also to activate common actions of promotion and marketing to international level".

The minister of the Transports of Jordan, Lina Shbeeb anticipates to the encounter also. He is not excluded, in fact, in a next future a protocol of understanding also between Civitavecchia and the port of Aqaba. "We have only 27 kilometers of coasts - it has emphasized the jordanian minister - but want to take advantage of them at best".