The ports of Venice, Trieste and Koper have started an European project in the field of harbour safety



One has held today to Trieste near the Tower of the Lloyd, center of the Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Orientale, the encounter of launch of European project SECNET "transboundary institutional Cooperation for the strengthening of the security harbour", co-financed from the Program of Italy-Slovenia Cross-border cooperation, that it has seen winners the ports of Alto Adriatico of Venice, Trieste (front man) and Koper with the objective to improve the cross-border cooperation in the field of safety harbour, a topic particularly important visa the strong impact on the protection of the ports of call (tied to the strong geopolitical instability and the risks of terrorist attacks) and on the competitiveness of the three ports.

Project SECNET, that it will have a duration of 18 months, has (of which 250 thousand for the single port of Venice) with the objective to strengthen the institutional ability and the governance transboundary in the harbour security. The initiative will be got ahead by the ports of Venice (Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Settentrionale), Trieste (Authority of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Orientale) and Koper (Luka Koper) with the collaboration of the University of the Studies of Trieste and the executive secretariat of Central European Initiative (INCE)

Often the additional and coordinated measures of security do not translate in a slower handling of the goods and therefore in a minor attrattività of the ports, to discapito of the economic development of the territories. SECNET will increase the competence of the ports in this specific field with the aid of innovative computer science systems and having supplied technical competences and specialized municipalities to transboundary level.

"The challenge today in the marine field – it has emphasized president of the AdSP of Mare Adriatico Orientale, Zeno D' Augustin, having opened the reunion - is to guarantee to the maximum level the standards of safety for harbour people, goods and structures, characterizing new policies that do not affect on the operativity of the port of call and the logistic chain to earth". "The cooperation in transboundary within on a so crucial topic – it has added - is an important challenge that it will be able to give optimal yields. SECNET is particularly to heart for others two reasons: it represents the first project in which Trieste it becomes partnership front man and is a strong sign of collaboration also in the within of NAPA".

Partner of the project will be up to the three ports to experience a combined action plan that aimed to upgrade the defense of the computer science nets (cyber security) and the defense of the harbour areas from the access of subjects not authorized. In the concrete the project previews a complete checkup of the architectures of net in order to estimate the possible risks, the computer science adaptation of the systems of control for the access in port but also the purchase of systems of surveillance camera to the vanguard.

Referring to the topic of the project, the president of the port of Venice, Pino Musolino, has remembered that recently the Venetian harbour agency has had a visit of inspection of the department security of the EU commission. "The outcome - it has emphasized Musolino - has been more than positive so much so that the members of the inspecting group will propose to Brussels that some procedures already in use in the terminals of the port of Venice are adopted as good practical also from other European ports of call. From this experience - it has added - we have learned a lot and we will on hand put ours expertise before the other adriatic ports and then of those Europeans. Project SECNET, moreover, will give the opportunity to us to implement new technologies in order to lead the way also in cyber facing possible attacks. With the other ports, on the escort of the results of project SECNET and in the found again spirit of the association NAPA, we will sign a combined protocol for the performance of the transboundary strategy for the harbour security. We will be able so to harmonize the policies in this field in all Alto Adriatico, to limit to the maximum the bureaucratic diffuseness and to guarantee at the same time maximum safety of our ports".