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MED PORTS A port logistics cluster in the Mediterranean

Durée : 10 Months (March 2010 - December 2010),
Lieu : Cagliari - Italy; Barcelona - Spain; Cairo and Alexandria - Egypt; Tunis - Tunisia; Tangier - Morocco

Nearly 30% of the global container traffic transits through the Mediterranean. However, the majority of this traffic is disembarked in the North of Europe to be routed towards its final destination. With a few large ports like Port Said, Tanger Med, Gioia Tauro or Valencia, and the increase in importance of challengers such as Malta, the Mediterranean should have the ambition to open doors to the Northern and Southern continents for this traffic. This assumes notably possessing effective port services. The Med Ports initiative has associated a group of important players from five Mediterranean countries to work on improving the port logistical services of European countries and those to the South of the Mediterranean with the aim of developing an integrated transport system in the Mediterranean Basin. At the end of the exchanges of personnel, training seminars and organised business meetings, Med Ports produced a joint action plan associating the partner countries for a Mediterranean port logistics cluster so as to position the Mediterranean ports against the global competition.

Sectors

  • Transport, logistics

Partners

Operations linked to the initiative

 
The Invest in Med programme aims at developing sustainable trade relationships, investments and enterprise partnerships between the two rims of the Mediterranean. Funded at 75% by the European Union over the 2008-2011 period, it is implemented by the MedAlliance consortium, which associates economic development organisations (ANIMA, leader of the programme), CCIs (ASCAME, EUROCHAMBRES), and business federations (BUSINESSMED). The members of these networks, as well as their special partners (UNIDO, GTZ, EPA Euroméditerranée, World Bank, etc.), gather a thousand of economic actors - mobilised through pilot initiatives centered on key Mediterranean promising niches. Each year, a hundred operations associate the 27 countries of the European Union and 9 Mediterranean partner countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestinian Authority, Syria and Tunisia. www.invest-in-med.eu