To Shanghai the meeting fondativo of the "Global Shipping Think Tank Alliance"



In recent days has held, organism promoted from the Shanghai International Shipping Institute (SISI), with the support of the Waterborne Transport Bureau of the Chinese Ministry of the Transports, and constituted from primary international institutes of search that take care of marine transport and portualità. The new alliance has the scope to constitute a platform of exchanges and cooperation between task forces of various nations in order to promote the development of the marine-harbour field, to debate the economic trends of the fields connected to the sea and to supply decisional support.

The first members of the Global Shipping Think Tank Alliance are 13 organizations of nine nations, that is China, South Korea, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sweden, the USA and Italy, this last one represented from the search institute Studies and Searches for Southern Italy (SRM).

Particular attention will be turned to the development of inherent analyses the initiative of the China called "Via of the Silk" (note also as OBOR One Belt One Road), a huge one slowly of infrastructural investments that the Country intends to realize in order to strengthen the commercial relations along the marine way until the Mediterranean. The plan piles to beyond 1.000 billion dollars for the realization/potenziamento of harbour, street, railway, airport infrastructures.

In occasion of the signature of the agreement, the SRM Italian has participated with a speech on the marine economy in the Mediterranean to the International Port and Shipping organized Development from the SISI, one of the events of the more important Far East in matter, with the presence of foreign delegations besides a numerous audience.

"For us - it has emphasized the general manager of SRM, Massimo Deandreis - this partnership with the SISI and the most prestigious specialized research centers to the world on Maritime the Economy is an acknowledgment important but also the opportunity to deepen from of within and in a more and more international key the study of economic dynamics that regards world-wide the marine commerce and that more and more they interest the countries that they appear on the Mediterranean. This collaboration will allow also to make a focus us on China and the so-called one "Via of the Silk" in order monitoring the increasing investments that Chinese operators are making in ports and infrastructures of the Mediterranean and also in Italy".