Coast (AP Venice): the Mediterranean Union of the Freeways of the Sea must become a priority objective of European politics



Nella Stazione Passeggeri of the Marine one of Venice is on the European conference dedicated to the Freeways of the Sea that, promoted from the European coordinator for Brian Simpson the field and realized in collaboration with the Harbour Authority of Venice, re-enters between the initiatives supported from the DG-MOVE, ago keeps on the held conference to Goteborg last November dedicated to the reduction of the emissions in the marine field and precedes the third conference that will be carried out to Liverpool in May. Al center of the attention of the meeting "sea Motorways of the" of Venice, the topic of as returning more and more efficient and sustainable marine transport.

"The European future - it has observed the president of the Harbour Authority of Venice, Paolo Costa, in occasion of the conference - is more and more out of Europe and passes for the ports. In 2002 export extra-EU it was pairs to 44% of the intra-EU commerce. Percentage that is increased to 88% in 2013 and that it will exceed 100% within a ten of years. Perhaps also before, because the international commerce will continue to grow more of the world-wide Gross Domestic Product one (than four times the current level within 2050). As and 85% of the international commerce move by sea, the pressure on the marine transport and on the ports he will be exceptional. Topic that the EU would have to hurry to face in more determined way in order to avoid than to autoemarginare itself from the total scene. That it means, for example in terms of politics IT TRY, to concentrate on the nodes (ports and airports) at least as well as how much is taking care us of arches (railroads, roads, inland navigation), to consider itself priority".

"But the transport of the goods along the total logistic chains - it has emphasized Coast - does not begin or ends in the ports. This has two consequences: it is necessary to take note of new geography of the manifacturing production in Europe, than it has been gone more and more moving towards East; it is necessary to invest in the port-corridors with appropriate railway connections, but also liberalizing the market of the street transport that today stops the development of the market ro-ro and, therefore, of the Freeways of the Sea. Freeways of the Sea (MoS) that, if involved, they can be useful in order to pass from the construction of the European only market internal to that to insert Europe in the world-wide markets. But it is necessary that European politics of the Freeways of the Sea do not distinguish more between origins/destinations pertaining to Member States and those located in States third party. The Mediterranean Union of the Freeways of the Sea must, for example, become a priority objective of European politics".

"The development of the Freeways of the Sea - it has confirmed Enrico Maria Pujia, general manager for the marine Transport of the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports - is a strategic topic for Italy. On this we are working a lot because the future plays between 2014 and 2020 and must be ready to play that strategic role that our Country has in the Mediterranean. We are defining the national Plan of the Ports and the Logistics, but we must also head for the new creation broken with the Africa North. Sure some Countries now live a period of political instability, but it is also true that many have a GDP high and will be able to contribute to increase to the commercial exchange with Italy and Europe; for this we must be prepared to pick every sign of stability and increase".