Mission in Israel of the AdSP of the Southern Adriatic and Tyrrhenian Headquarters



The presidents of the Authorities of Harbour System of the Southern Adriatic and of Tyrrhenian Headquarters, Ugo Patroni Griffi and Pietro Spirito, have gone in mission in Israel where representatives of the ministries of the Economy and the Foreign policies and the Authority of regulation have met and management of the Israeli ports. The two Italian harbour agencies have specified that in the course of the encounters they are emerged, in particular, opportunity of academic collaboration between the University of Haifa and from Bari the Neapolitan university and.

The mission has been concluded with an encounter with the main Israeli marine company in the field of the container, the ZIM, with which the possible developments are analyzed to the main served routes and.

"Israel - it has commented Patrons Griffi - totally is dependent on the marine traffics: 99% of the volume of its import-export pass for the sea and the foreign trade represents 63% of the GDP. Between the main objectives of our mission - the president of the AdSP of Mare Adriatico Meridionale has explained - to intercept forms of collaboration for giving to ulterior impulse to the traffic container in our ports, considered the reached impressive results, in this segment, from the Israeli ports. The two main ports of call of the Country, in fact, enliven currently 2,7 million teu the year and head to reach quota 3,5 million within 2021 when the potenziamento work is ended that will carry them to accommodate ships until 18-19.000 teu. Own by virtue of such data, in these days we have interfacciati ourselves with the referring ones of company ZIM, in order to verify possible forms of collaboration and investment, above all in sight of the facilities that will be introduced by the ZES".

"Israel - Pietro Spirito has confirmed - records a annual medium increase of 4% in the goods that journeys for its ports, let alone investments from four billions of dollars for the construction of new terminals container. A detached protagonismo is for the marine connections is for those earthlings, in the Chinese strategy "One Belt One Road". We are convinced, moreover, than the trinomial culture-science-increase it constitutes fly just in order to produce innovation, insisting on the vital human in order to reach crucial objectives of increase. Own to such fine - it has specified the president of the AdSP of the Tyrrhenian Sea Central - we have opened the road to forms of collaboration between from Bari the partenopea university and that of Haifa in order to favor the institution of connections that can be also of scientific and academic nature. The collaboration ways can be various, and our ports of Tyrrhenian headquarters and the southern Adriatic intend to carry out the bridge role, in order to return our sea a place of encounter and not of tragedies".