Today in Rome, at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Port of Turkmenbaschi, Turkmenistan, and the Turkmenistan Authority Port System of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea. The purpose of the agreement is to strengthening and developing trade relations between ports of Campania and the Asian country overlooking the Caspian Sea, as well as the exchange of know-how on technologies and practices administrative. In particular, the two parties will share a year (renewable for a further year) good practices, projects, logistical activities at all levels, stimulating local entrepreneurship, both in the specifically maritime and the one that imports or exports its products by sea. In addition, Turkmenistan and Italy will not share not only the reciprocal commercial port activities but also those related to engineering activities, such as the use of of machinery and port facilities for the handling of goods or mechanical means, for example, for the construction of Infrastructure.

The protocol also commits the parties to share aspects of the transport-related technical, engineering and managerial skills, as well as port and maritime specialist training, including through reciprocal visits to the education and research centres of the two ports. For these objectives, a cooperation between delegations of experts in the field of construction and port arrangement, loading and unloading of goods, loading and Disembarkation of passengers, storage and stowage arrangements of goods in ports.