Agreement between the AdSP of the Southern Adriatic and Tyrrhenian Centro Settentrionale for the development of the intermodal corridor between the two regions



The Authorities of Harbour System of Mare Adriatico Meridionale and the Centro Settentrionale Tyrrhenian Sea have undersigned a collaboration agreement, of the duration two-year-old, with the scope to develop to the intermodal corridor Tyrrhenian Headquarters - Adriatic Meridional through the ports of Civitavecchia/Gaeta and Bari/Brindisi by means of the promotion of the street, railway and logistic connections between the two areas.

The understanding, which signed this morning to Brindisi from the presidents of the two Authorities, Ugo Patroni Griffi and Francesco Maria di Majo, previews the institution of a permanent working group with the task to characterize synergies and projects for the improvement, in ecosostenibile key and of energetic efficientamento, of the traffics in the harbour within, above all in reference to the accesses in the ports of the traffic ro-ro.

"With the collaboration of the ports of Tyrrhenian Centro Settentrionale - the president of the AdSP of Mare Adriatico Meridionale has explained, Patrons Griffi - we want to return the cross-sectional intermodal transport more and more competitive, in particular ro-ro, between the Iberian peninsula and that Balkan, above all Greece and therefore Turkey, also through the digitalisation and the dematerialization of the processes and the location of special procedimentali regimes, in the within respective of the ZES of the Apulia adriatic and the Latium ZLS".

"Through such agreement - Francesco Maria di Majo has asserted - the AdSP of the Latium ports intends to share with the AdSP of the Southern Adriatic own experience in the energetic and environmental planning of the harbour system, promuovendo jointly programs turns to be profitable still more competitive, through in particular the alternative fuel use for the autotrazione and the marine transport, the intermodal transport between the apulian Latium ports and those adriatic ones. With this agreement - it has added of Majo - the port role comes ulteriorly increased gateway of Civitavecchia regarding the cross-sectional intermodal corridors, assuring the natural extension via earth of the Freeways of the Sea let alone integration of these last ones with the logistic chains not only of the tirrenico depositor and of that Adriatic but also of Spain, Croatia, the Balkans, Greece and from here also with Turkey".

"Analogous to the two intermodal cross-sectional corridors Civitavecchia-Ancona, that it passes for the Umbria, and Civitavecchia-Rome-Ortona/Pescara - has concluded the president of the AdSP of the Centro Settentrionale Tyrrhenian Sea - the cross-sectional corridor Civitavecchia-Bari/Brindisi, to service in particular of the traffic ro-ro, will contribute to upgrade the role of "land bridge" of central Italy, with obvious advantages in economic and occupational terms for the ports of Tyrrhenian Headquarters and the Central and Southern Adriatic".