Project for a computer science platform with the statistical data of the European ports



Yesterday to Rome in the center of the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti) the Portopia project is introduced, promoted from the EU commission and realized thanks to the participation of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) and of its national members, whose objective, than is realized in the realization of a computer science platform that will contain the economic and statistical data of the European ports, is that to implement the EPO (European Ports Observatory). Front man of the project inside ESPO is the committee economic analyses and statistics presided from Assoporti.

You anticipate to the illustration of the contents and of the functionalities of the platform, exposed from the administrative coordinator and scientific Michael Dooms, teacher of the University of Brussels, the technicians of the Harbour Authorities that will have to be interfacciare with the system is directly that for through of the site of Assoporti.

The project-platform has various purposes: to increase to the participation of the ports to the collection and publication of the data; to integrate various indicators of harbour performance; to increase the value of the system of management of the performances for the stakeholder that they take care of harbour policies, included the EU commission; to identify the connection between the financial indicators and of governance of the port and the Harbour Authority; to increase to the communication and the spread of the results and the acquired acquaintances from the European Ports Observatory; to create a platform of sharing of the data based on the cooperation and not on the competition. This would have to allow a neutral analysis on the state "of the harbour industry".

The platform will be active beginning from the end of the next september, but he is already consultabile in the informative parts to the address: www.portopia.eu.

"This that is realized with this project - has explained Dooms in the margin of the presentation - it is that to return the collection and the analysis of the data more precise and efficient. Once online, these data will be an aid for who it must make of the choices for the portualità, as a series of relative statistical and economic data to specific ports, territories and/or geographic areas will have all on hand".

Draft - it has emphasized the president of Assoporti, Pasqualino Monti - of "an ulterior instrument on hand of the national and European portualità that will contribute to the information dissimation of the culture and of field".