ESPO anticipates a relationship on the governance and the organization of the ports of the European Union



In occasion of own assembly anniversary, held yesterday to Dublino, the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) has introduced the relationship "Trends in EU Ports Governance 2016" based on the results of the last survey on the governance and the organization of the ports of the European Union realized recently from the association, to which they have taken to part 86 Harbour Authorities of 19 nations of the EU, to which Norway and Iceland have joined, than together represent beyond 200 ports and more of 57% of the total volume of the goods enlivened in the European Union.

The relationship of the ESPO evidences the ten main lines of tendency of the European portualità, which indicate that the ports EU remain of public property but they are moving towards a form of analogous management to that private one, than the Harbour Authorities have a mix of objectives of economic and not economic type, than the optimization of the use of the ground it is a function key of the Harbour Authorities, than the ports they are developed with the local communities and with the competition of the main deliveries interested and that the Harbour Authorities are proattive parts of the nets IT TRY and the main promoters of the port. Moreover the relationship of the association of the European ports emphasizes that task of the Harbour Authorities is to stimulate the innovation, than the ports is primary center let alone partner of the industrial districts, than the ports they are main actors of the energetic field and supporters of the energetic transition, than the management of the energy it is one of the main worries of the Harbour Authorities and that the Harbour Authorities strive for a greater transparency.

In occasion of the assembly anniversary the ESPO has introduced also own Code of good practical for the ports landing place of cruise ships and ferries that is developed by the association of the European ports with the associations Cruise Baltic, Cruise Europe, Cruise Norway, MedCruise and Cruise Britain. The five main challenges for these ports characterized from the Code are the relationship port-city, the infrastructures, the cooperation, the relations with the crocieristiche companies and those of the ferries and safety.

Scope of the Code, besides the sharing of the practical ones between the Harbour Authorities, is that of being an instrument in order to improve the dialogue with all the parts interested in the field of the cruises and the ferries and informing the political responsibles and the great public about the characteristics, the challenges and the initiatives assumed from the European Harbour Authorities.