North Adriatic Ports Association to promote inter-port cooperation

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 6, 2021 - Members of the North Adriatic Ports Association (NAPA) have signed an agreement to increase cooperation between its ports - Venice/Chioggia, Trieste/Monfalcone, Ravenna, Koper and Rijeka. The agreement is aims to increase cooperation between the ports of Italy, Slovenia and Croatia at a time when all ports have been effected by the Covid-19 coronavirus crisis and supply chain issues. The ports are currently competitors. The development was coordinated by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP - Centre-North Adriatic Port Authority) which chairs NAPA and has the support of the Italian Ministry of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility and the corresponding Ministries of Croatia and Slovenia. Cooperation will center on development of green and smart ports and improved connections with the EU's Ten-T transport network. The agreement was signed by Fulvio Lino Di Blasio, President of NAPA and President of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Centro-Settentrionale (AdSP - Centre-North Adriatic Port Authority), Daniele Rossi; President of Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Adriatico Orientale (AdSP - Eastern Adriatic Sea Port Authority), Zeno D'Agostino; President of the Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea Orientale, Vojko Rotar, member of the Board of Directors of the Port of Koper, Denis Vukorepa, Executive Director of the Port Authority of Rijeka, during a ceremony in the presence of Adina Vălean, European Commissioner for Transport, Enrico Giovannini, Minister of Infrastructure and of Sustainable Mobility, Jernej Vrtovec, Minister of Infrastructure of the Slovenian Republic, Oleg Butković, Minister of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure of the Croatian Republic. Regarding sustainability and energy efficiency, the agreement is in line with the objectives established by the European Green Deal and the legislative package recently approved by the European Commission "FIT for 55", the joint declaration establishes that Napa ports are committed to cross-border cooperation permanent aimed at minimizing the environmental impacts of port operations in the Northern Adriatic area starting from the good practices that emerged from ongoing cooperation projects, co-financed by the European Union, such as the CLEAN BERTH and SUSPORT (Interreg Italy-Slovenia and Italy -Croatia) the EALING project (Connecting Europe Facility), and by the pilot actions common between all ports. As the main nodes of two priority corridors of the TEN-T network (Baltic-Adriatic and Mediterranean) and of the Motorways of the Sea of the Eastern Mediterranean, are the key transport methods to be developed. With the signing of the document, the ports have undertaken the commitment to optimize and harmonize sea and land side logistics and transport procedures through the use of digital technologies. The aim is to streamline last mile port procedures, ship entry and exit procedures and times and apply integrated technological tools for the dissemination of information useful for improving the safety of maritime transport operations. A commitment that NAPA ports are already carrying out through the implementation of INTESA European projects, Finally, to support trilateral cooperation, the document identifies three priorities for the five ports of the Upper Adriatic: completing the missing links and promoting integration into the TEN-T network, extending the TEN-T and MOS also to non-EU countries and include rail transport for freight and the maritime dimension in the European Territorial Cooperation Programs 2021-2027, in particular Interreg Central Europe, Interreg Adriatic-Ionian, Interreg Italy-Slovenia and Italy-Croatia. Copyright (C) PortSEurope. All Rights Reserved. 2021.

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