The Harbour Authority of Ravenna has accommodated the mid term conference of the European project Easyconnecting



Tuesday and Wednesday the Harbour Authority of Ravenna has accommodated the mid term conference of the European project the 17 Easyconnecting that has reunited partner of the project in order to be confronted on the state of advance of the respective progettuali activities. Objective of the project, of which Foundation ITL (Institute on the Transports and the Logistics) is partner, is the improvement of infrastructures and the intermodal services in area IPA (Program of Cross-border cooperation in the Adriatic) through collaboration activity, also in the location of common solutions in a position to facilitating and improving the connections and the services.

To Ravenna they were you anticipate investigators of international reputation (Rudolf Bauer - Paradigm, Claudio Ferrari - University of Genoa, Chris Rowland - MDS Transmodal Ltd, Camilla Baroncelli - Aleph) that they have been confronted on the "Potentialities of extension of catchment the area of the port of Ravenna, towards the markets foreign countries", with particular attention to the areas of Baden-Wurtttemberg, Bavaria and Austria.

The analyses have shown for some rows specific - chemical, automotive and food - the possibility to intercept a potential market that could be not only fed from Ravenna, but to consider the harbour port of call also for an increment of the quota export on the finished product ones. Reliabilities and increment of the intermodal earth services are, in fact, one of the keys of access to the productive districts.

They have participated to the encounter also expert in the within of the nordeuropea portualità - of the ports of Amburgo, Rotterdam and Antwerp (Rod Franklin - Kuhne Nagel, Edwin Van Hassel - University of Antwerp, Michele Acciaro - University of Amburgo, Marco Spinedi Sipotrà - Italian Society of politics of the Transports) - than in wide part intercepts the flows originated and generated from the areas object from the partially contendibili analysis from the ports of the Adriatic North.

Between the participants to the round table, the president of the Harbour Authority of Ravenna, Galliano Di Marco, and Carlo Facchini, in representation of the Association International Shippers of Ravenna. The encounter has been also an important occasion of confronts between all the representatives of the ravennate harbour community that they were you anticipate with representatives of local institutions and to the Emilia Romagna Region.