Financing EU for the fast transport of producing sour-food by the Middle East to the ports of Koper, Venice and Marseilles



The ports of Koper, Venice and Marseilles are selected for the realization of new logistic chains for the container cooled and the perishable goods destined to the European markets in the within of the called project Fresh Food Corridors (FFC) that it is approved of by the European ban Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) of 2014. The project previews that the produced ones sour-food (alimentary fresh) coming from Israel, Jordan and Palestine is imported with new services of fast transport through the three ports of the northern side of the Mediterranean. Moreover the development of two ulterior logistic corridors with the port of La Spezia and Cyprus will be studied.

For the performance of the project the European Union has granted a co-financing of 10 million euros of the program TRIES, that is about 50% of the cost of the operation from the value of 21 million euros. Four Countries will be involved EU (Slovenia, Italy, France and Cyprus) and, for the first time, Third-country of the side south of the Mediterranean not-EU (Jordan, Palestine, Israel and Egypt), let alone all the actors of the logistic chain (exporter, shippers, companies of navigation, carry and railway terminals, operators). In this circuit there will be some dedicated corridors of transport along which they will travel the container cooled that by the three ports of the northern Mediterranean center and Europe north will be forwarded via railroad towards.

The project, that it is coordinated by the port of Koper and that will be concluded in 2017, has officially taken to start in recent days own to Koper with the first reunion of the partnership after the acknowledgment of the European contribution. In the project two seasons of productivity in Middle East re-enter. During the first phase one will take care to us to verify the logistic estate, while in the second phase a new technology consisting in an innovative system of self feeding will be introduced produced electrical worker from the movement of the train.

The Harbour Authority of Venice has announced that regarding own harbour port of call and for the development of the "Venetian corridor" the sum of 1,5 million euros (online with the budgets of the other corridors will be available us) of which 750 thousand euros deriving from European contribution against the activities generated from the partner Venetian, in the specific Harbour Authority of Venice, shipper VLS - Venetian Lombardic Srl and the railway operator Rail Logistics Cargo - Italy Srl.

Andrea Cosentino, general VLS manager - Venetian Lombardic Srl, has emphasized that "draft of an historical initiative considered the important technological innovation connected to this project that will for the first time afford in absolute the transport of the goods cooled in arrival from the places of production directly to the destiny place crossing the European continent with it I without interruption use of same means of transport "container marine refrigerator" without some manipulation of the goods guaranteeing therefore the effective transport in conditions of controlled temperature. The same principle - Cosentino has explained - will be applied also to other flows of traffic that will be able to inside enjoy the same prerogatives crossing therefore the requirements of all the customers interested to technological integration of own productive and commercial activities addressed to the search of the discouragement of the polluting emissions, to a sustainable and ethical development as well as to the cost reduction generated from the optimization of the logistic chain and from more management of the conservation of the goods attempts".