the vice Greek minister of the Economy has met an Italian delegation of the shipowning and harbour field



Today to Rome, near the center of Confitarma, the vice Greek minister of the Economy and the development, Asterios Pitsiorlas, it has met Emanuele Grimaldi, Shipping president of the Italian Confederation, and an Italian delegation composed of representatives of the armament and the ports.

In the course of the Pitsiorlas encounter it has emphasized that to strengthen the relations between Italy and Greece it is a lot important, because the two Countries entirety can obtain good results for the respective economies. The vice Greek minister has found that, in this context, the synergy between the ports of the two Countries can represent an important starting point. Relatively to the Greek portualità, Pitsiorlas has remembered that the agreement of the port of the Pireo with the shipowning group and harbour Chinese COSCO, besides to make to record an increase of 36% of the container traffic, has created new opportunities and the same one expects to us from other agreements that the Greek ports are negotiating. The vice minister has evidenced that the collaboration becomes therefore fundamental to the aims of the development and this is so much truer for the field of the cruises that, according to Pitsiorlas, needs of a Mediterranean strategy of development.

The president of Confitarma has manifested great appreciation for the international approach that the Greek government is getting ahead and that he favors important investments for the development of the markets and infrastructures. Speaking on behalf of its shipowning group, than work in Greece through the branch Minoan Lines that is quoted to the Stock exchange of Athens, Emanuele Grimaldi has remembered the huge investments in new ships and the launch of connections realized in the Mediterranean, that they have carried an increase of the rotabile volume of goods and passengers emphasizing as this happens without any problem from the point of view of the occupation of marine Greeks. Moreover, with respect to the remarkable development of the lines of shortsea shipping in the Mediterranean, Grimaldi has put in evidence the thrust towards a concentration of the shipowning activities also in order to answer to the competition of the lines areas low-cost in the transport fleeting.

The president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Tyrrhenian Sea Central, Pietro Spirito, that he is taken part also in representation of Assoporti, has stopped himself on the new harbour reform, that he is about to be completed, and on the advantages that will be able some to derive above all in terms of competitiveness of the Italian ports of call. Spirit has evidenced in particular the requirement to create strong synergies between the railway and street that marine modality and, as already he succeeds in the Countries of the Europe North, developing in particular traffics container and strengthening the connections between the Greek ports and those Italians of the Adriatic, also taking into consideration the initiative that the Chineses are getting ahead with the "New via of the silk". In this context - it has found - the development of the freeways of the sea plays a first floor role, while the field of the cruises must be reshaped taking into consideration the difficult situation of the Countries of the side south of the Mediterranean and the increased movement in the European Countries.