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the ports of Venice and Ningbo have undersigned a memorandum of understanding
the scope is to promote the combined development of the ports, is infrastructural that operating
July 23, 2015
Today to Venice, in occasion of the Silk Road Cities Cooperation Forum, the event promoted from China Public Diplomacy Association and the Silk Road Cities Alliance, the president of the Venetian Harbour Authority, Paolo Costa, and Lv Liqun, managing of the Ningbo Port Co., the society that the Chinese port of Ningbo manages, has undersigned a memorandum of understanding that it has the scope to promote the combined development of the two ports, is infrastructural that operating, also through the mutual assistance in the employment of technological and organizational innovations.
The agreement realizes the vision identified in the line guides of the "Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road" written up from the National Commission for the Development and the Reforms and from the State Departments and of the Chinese Popular Commerce of the Republic that intend to invest jointly in the institution of an integrated marine route, sure and efficient mass in work from the harbour cities - and with they from the respective States - placed along the Route of the Silk.
Finding that both ports will have to be more and more equipped in order to broker the increasing flows of traffic between Europe and Asia that will cover the new Via of the Silk, the Venetian harbour authority has remembered that the Shanghai International Shipping Institute previews that in the 2030 traffic goods enlivened from the Chinese ports will double going up to beyond 25 billion tons, with a traffic of the container will be pairs to 505 million teu. In that given the million teu will be at least 40 that they will move along the way of the marine silk from and for Europe, in good part leaving/arriving from the port of Ningbo that in the 2030 esteem to enliven beyond 35 million teu and arriving/leaving from Venice and in Alto Adriatico, region in which in the 2013 it is previewed to enliven six million teu at least.
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Today to Venice, in occasion of the Silk Road Cities Cooperation Forum, the event promoted from China Public Diplomacy Association and the Silk Road Cities Alliance, the president of the Venetian Harbour Authority, Paolo Costa, and Lv Liqun, managing of the Ningbo Port Co., the society that the Chinese port of Ningbo manages, has undersigned a memorandum of understanding that it has the scope to promote the combined development of the two ports, is infrastructural that operating, also through the mutual assistance in the employment of technological and organizational innovations.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
