Bavaria confirmation that the port of Trieste is its door on the world



Today the Prime Minister of Bavaria, Horst Seehofer, has visited the port of Trieste accompanied from the extraordinary commissioner of the Italian harbour port of call, Zeno D' Augustin, from president of the Region Friuli Venice Julia, Debora Serracchiani, and from the regional city council member to Infrastructures, Mariagrazia Santoro. The visit has happened in the picture of the programmed encounter in order to discuss a tighter collaboration between Bavaria and Friuli Venice Julia that has carried to the today's subscription of an agreement of cooperation in economic field, in particular in the fields of the transports, the formation and the competitiveness.

"Today - it has emphasized Seehofer - that of the transport and the logistics is one of the more important industries of Been at liberty to Bavaria. Its central positioning makes of Bavaria one of unwinds for excellence of the European system of the transports. It is for that we are a lot interested to having an easy access to the ports of the northern Adriatic. These have benefitted from the increase of the commercial exchanges between the Far East and Europe and detail importance with the widening of the European Union".

"Trieste - it has continued Seehofer - is the port more close for Bavaria: not only the distance between Monk of Bavaria and the port of Trieste is short regarding that with the ports of the Sea of the North, but the transports for the Far East through the ports of the north like Amburgo demand approximately five days of marine transport in more regarding Trieste. Trieste, therefore, offers to a remarkable saving of costs and a competitive advantage".

During the visit to Seehofer is illustrated in particular the activities of the giuliano port that interest the multimodality, with specific reference to the terminals dedicated to the Turkish ferries and the terminal containers. The president of the Bavarian Land and the president of the Region has been able to observe handlings in course on the dock of Pier VII on a portacontainer from 12 thousand teu. Among other things he is remembered that the terminal containers, also it to strong railway vocation, is about to being widened for 200 meters in length and 400 in width and tip, like has explained the president of the terminalista society Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT), Fabrizio Zerbini, to achieve the objective of 1,2 million teu.

Seehofer has been stopped, at last, on the illustration of the activity of the Siot-Group terminal Such, whose oil pipe-line covers the entire oil requirements of the south of Germany. "Bavaria - it has found Seehofer - begins here. Means century still make era an agricultural state and meantime we have become an industrial region, all this is begun thanks to the pipeline that leaves from Trieste".

Debora Serracchiani has emphasized that now they are picked yields of the first held encounter to Monk a year makes from which it is gushed the today's signature of the understanding and has specified that the agreement does not represent a first plugs initial, or a point of arrival, but a kind of road map, with the auspice that in future the collaboration relationship can be extended also to other thematic areas.