Forty-three European associations ask for transport more deep for the EU



Forty-three European associations that represent local societies, agencies and authorities and regional that operate in the fields of the transports, the infrastructure management, the logistics, shipments, the sections marine, fluvial, railway, street, bicycle, aeronautical and intermodal and the correlated industries and enterprises, have undersigned the Declaration of Ljubljana with which they are demanded for transport more deep of the European Union.

The document emphasizes that an European only market without transports cannot exist, that they answer to the requirements of mobility of beyond 500 million European citizens and guarantee the flow of goods give beyond 11 million industries of the EU to their customers, and evidences that a modern net of transports and completely integrated, with easy accessibility and services high-quality for all the customers, is essential in order to guarantee a good quality of the life for all the citizens.

The Declaration remembers that the field of the transports constitutes flies for the economic increase and the occupation and for the economic and social cohesion of the EU and that a European on ten works in the widest field of the transports. To invest in transport infrastructures - the document finds - will carry in the long term to an increase of the places of work and every billion of euro invested in the central net TRIES will create until 20.000 new places of work, that they represent from 10 to 15 million ulterior places of work within 2030. The International Monetary Fund - the organizations remember signers - esteem that to invest 1% of the Gross Domestic Product one in transport infrastructures will carry to 1,5%- 2.6% of increase of the GDP in four years. Moreover connectivity of the transports can contribute remarkablly to the cohesion and reduce the disparities of development between the countries and the regions of the EU.

The document continues emphasizing that to invest in ecosostenibili mobilities and infrastructures it is an European priority and that the ambitiouses objectives of decarbonizzazione of the agreement of Paris can be reached only if all the transport modalities put into effect sustainable projects and continue to invest in innovative solutions greens, allowing a progression towards systems of transport with lowlands emissions of carbon and low energetic consumption. According to the signers, regarding in particular the goods, it is necessary to invest in a more efficient logistic chain and intelligent and to allow it put up efficiencies through the greater connectivity between the various modalities. Moreover, the sustainable infrastructures of transport must be more resistant to the climatic changes and to supply an added value to the society, the economy and the ecology.

The document evidences also the necessity to recognize that the transports must take advantage of fully the opportunities offered from the digital and innovative technologies and emphasize that the transport is a facilitatore key for the exchanges with the third-country: the displacement of goods from a country to another depends on the total nets of transport and logistics and the net TRIES is an instrument key in order to guarantee a fast and reliable transport of producing by all the regions of Europe to the world and vice versa. The Declaration of Ljubljana finds the requirement that the net TRIES must be completed and that would have to be improved its connectivity with the third-country.

The organizations signers ask therefore to increase to the budget EU for the program Mechanism in order To connect Europe (CEF) in the within of the next Picture Financial Pluriennale in order to facilitate the completion of the central net TRY, that it demands an investment of 500 billion euros between 2021 and 2030, to invest in better and more innovative transports and than to continue to grant subsidies as conventional instrument in order to finance transport projects on the main and total nets TRIES.

The Declaration has been undersigned from AAA road service Europe (Airports Council International Europe), AIM (European Brands Association), ARDAN, ASECAP (Association Européenne DES Concessionnaires d' Autoroutes ET of Ouvrages to Péage), A4E (Airlines for Europe), CEFIC (European Chemical Industry Council), CER (Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies), CLECAT (European Association for Forwarding, Transport, Logistics and Customs Services), CLIA Europe (Cruise Lines International Association), DYVOLVE, EBA (European Boatmen's Association), EBU (European Barge Union), ECASBA (European Community Association of Shipbrokers and Agents), ECF (European Cyclists' Federation), ECGs (Association of European Vehicle Logistics), ECSA (European Community Shipowners' Associations), EFIP (European Federation of Inland Ports), EIM (European Rail Infrastructure Managers), EMPA (European Maritime Pilots' Association), ERFA (European Rail Freight Association), ERRIN (European Regions Research and Innovation Network), ESC (European Shippers' Council), ESO (European Skippers' Organisation), ESPO (European Sea Ports Organisation), ETA (European Tugowners Association), EuDA (European Dredging Association), EUMETNET (European National Meteorological Services Network), EUROFER (European Steel Federation), EUROPLATFORMS (European Association of Logistics Platforms), FEPORT (Federation of Private Port Operators and Terminals), FERRMED (Association to improve Railfreight Transportation), FIEC (European Construction Industry Federation), FTA (Freight Transport Association), GROUPE SOUFFLET (Agricultural foods group), INE (Inland Navigation Europe), IRU (International Road Transport Union), IWI (Inland Waterways International), POLIS (European Cities and Regions Networking for Innovative Transport Solutions), UETR (European Road Haulers Association), UIP (International Union of Wagon Keepers), UIRR (International Union for Road-Rail Combined Transport), UNIFE (Association of European Rail Industry) and UNISTOCK (European Association of Professional Portside Storekeepers in the Food and Feed chain).