the port of Trieste is ready to sign an agreement with the marine administration of Iran



Yesterday to Tehran, in the within of the mission of a delegation of the Region Friuli Venice Julia in Iran in course from Sunday, two encounters that the president of the Italian regional agency, Debora Serracchiani, has defined "important for the Friuli Venice Julia and the port of Trieste", but "also for all our Country" have held. Serracchiani has met shipowning president of the company Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), Mohammed Saeedi, and Jalil Eslami, general manager for the harbour Activities of the Ports & Maritime Organization (PMO), national the marine administration of Iran been dependent on the Ministry of Transportation.

Serracchiani has emphasized that draft of "cooperations that I consider profitable also for same the Iran, in relation to failing of the endorsements". "For the Friuli Venice Julia, then - it has added - draft in some way to recover a meaningful past of traffics from Iran towards the port of call of Trieste: it would be an important return, for our it anticipates above all and for the future of the giuliano port".

President of the Region Friuli Venice Julia has specified that IRISL appears interested to various solutions regarding the port of Genoa, "looking for - he has explained - new lease on life on the Adriatic and, therefore, beginning a dialogue with Trieste, with a possible direct presence of the company Iranian in the giuliano port of call".

In the course of the reunion with the PMO, developed for a total appraisal of the increment of the commercial traffics between the southern ports of Iran, in particular Bandar Abbas on the strait of hormuz, and Trieste, to the delegation of the FVG is expressed the positive impression of the marine authorities Iranians on the opportunities offered from the port of Trieste.

Serracchiani has evidenced the great interest and the extreme concreteness of the encounters, "and creed has found - that the port of Trieste, as we have estimated with the commissioner of the Harbour Authority Zeno D' Augustin, has all the numbers for being able itself to characterize as a point of reference for a development of the traffics Iranians towards Europe, firstly, the Center and the East Europe, and the Mediterranean".

From part its extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Trieste has announced that "shortly it could be signed between PMO and port of Trieste a memorandum of understanding for a mutual exchange of experiences, best practice and competences, finalized also - it has specified Zeno D' Augustin - to the formation of the managers of the various harbour truths Iranians in the fields of the infrastructuring of the ports of call, the activity of refuel/defuel goods and passengers, the logistic activities connected to the portualità, the topics of safety (safety & security), the antifire activities".

"We are available - Jalil Eslami has confirmed - to as soon as possible begin these technical collaborations with the Friuli Venice Julia and Trieste". To such purpose a text outline in agreement already is sketched thanks to the collaboration of the Embassy of Italy to Tehran, guided by Mauro Conciatori.