the European private harbour terminalisti ask they greater involvement in the debate and the definition for the harbour policies



. The president of the Federation of European Private Port Operators (Feport has said today), Gunther Bonz, in the course of an encounter to Brussels with Violeta Bulc, European commissioner to the Transports, in order to discuss about the modernization and the competitiveness of the European ports to which a delegation of high level of managing representatives and of the private harbour terminaliste societies has participated.

Evidencing that in many ports the amount of the private investments is meaningful and pairs or often advanced to the investments publics and that the private harbour operators are playing a role key in the within of the marine logistic chain in a moment in which many European ports they find to face great challenges in order to receive more and more large ships, not only portacontainer, but also ro-ro, unit from cruise and ships of other type, and in assuming concrete measures in order to mitigate the impact of the ports on the atmosphere and the communities, Bonz have found that "this justifies a greater involvement of the private sector in the arguments and the processes decisional in matter of development of the harbour projects, it is to communitarian level that national".

In the course of the reunion the representatives of Feport have emphasized that regulating development of the harbour projects, the transparency in matter of contracts and procedures of performance let alone the transparency of the financings publics is the fundamental foundations in order to attract sustainable investments in the European ports. The simplification of the administrative procedures and the creation of a real "only door" - they have observed also the delegates of Feport - is key factors for the success of the future marine logistic strategy that the terminals operator would want to support and to feed with concrete proposals.

It is be moreover evidenced as, taking in consideration requirements from side sea, is absolutely essential connection physical to nets of transport and more in general terms to chain logistic and that to such purpose the terminalisti wish a greater dialogue between all the stakeholder of the marine logistics that would allow a better understanding of the necessities and the expectations of all the parts and would contribute to define the priorities of the projects, to carry out aimed investments and to introduce the necessary simplifications.