Diapositiva 1

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FROM COMPETITION TO CO-OPERATION THE
MEDITERRANEAN PORTS ARENA
Co-operation strategies among Western
Mediterranean ports The experience of the
Port of Barcelona

Eduard Rodés Business Development Director Port
Authority of Barcelona
Genoa, 23 September 2005
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Starting situation
Challenges

• The Western Mediterranean must play a much more
  active role
• To break the north-south imbalance in
  international maritime trade 76 of goods
  currently channeled through northern ports vs
  24 through those of the south
• So that its peripheral condition is not
  exacerbated by European enlargement towards the
  East

and opportunities

• Increased importance of the MED in world maritime
  trade (world East-West routes). Growth of
  traffic from Asia.
• Future development of North Africa and the
  creation in 2010 of the free trade area between
  EU and 15 North African countries is an
  opportunity to become the gateway for goods from
  this area into Europe.

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Opportunity for Mediterranean ports
? 3 days less calling at Southern ports ?
Enlargement of the Suez Canal (18-20 m draught)
76 Far East traffic
Hamburg 7,003
Bremen 3,469
Rotterdam 8,281
Antwerp 6,064
Future
Le Havre 2,150
North South Axis
Present
Genoa 1,629
Marseilles 917
Barcelona 1,916
Valencia 2,145
24 Far East traffic
Traffic figures 2004 million TEU
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Need to develop co-operation strategies among the
southern ports

• The role that can be played by the southern
  ports depends very much upon infrastructures,
  especially on the existence of good rail
  connections with Europe, and its organisational
  and commercial capacity.
• The ports of the Western Mediterranean must work
  together to defend the concept of a
  Trans-European Network that can truly structure
  the whole of Europe and must not exclude the
  Mediterranean corridor.
• There are already some initiatives and projects
  underway that involve the port of Barcelona

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Initiatives and projects underway
INTERMED Association of the ports of Marseilles,
Genoa and Barcelona to promote the MED-OCC
maritime area
Areas of cooperation between competing ports

• Defending the interests of the MED-OCC ports
  before the EU in the face of the imbalance
  between north and south vis a vis the European
  transport network
• Promoting Short Sea Shipping Simplifying and
  harmonising administrative and customs processes
  in intracommunity trade and extending this to the
  countries of the Mediterranean, especially North
  Africa.

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Initiatives and projects underway
Fast growth of Short Sea Shipping traffic
Barcelona- Italy

• Barcelona Genoa
• From 1998
• 3 days/week (1998) and everyday (except Sunday)
  since 1999
• 2 vessels

Tonnes
January-May

• Barcelona Civitavecchia
• From 2004
• 3 days/week and everyday (except Sunday) since
  May 2005
• 2 vessels

January - May 2005
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Initiatives and projects underway
The BRAVO Project as a facilitator of Short Sea
Shipping
Border Requirements And Vessel Operation

• Simplifying documentary procedures associated
  with goods transport between the ports of Genoa
  and Barcelona. This system is now being extended
  to the port of Civitavecchia.
• New procedure based on the extensions of the
  one-stop shop concept at supranational level.
• Cooperation between the communication systems in
  both ports Sistema e Telematica in Genoa and
  PortIC in Barcelona

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Initiatives and projects underway
Training and promotion

• GLOSS - General Logistics for Short Sea
  Training and information for professionals who
  decide upon and administer logistic chains in
  which SSS may be a profitable alternative in
  terms of service, cost and time.
• SSS course given on board an SSS vessel while
  travelling at sea
• Organised by the port authorities at both ends
  of the line (Civitavecchia and Barcelona) and the
  company providing the service (Grimaldi Group)
• AVTORITAS New course aimed at university
  students of logistics and
  international trade and future
  logistics operators.

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Initiatives and projects underway
FERRMED

• A non-profit making association that promotes the
  Rhine-Rhone-Western Mediterranean railways axis
  for freight transport. From Algeciras, all the
  MED ports to Metz, Duisburg and North sea ports.
• Brings together private sector association
  stakeholders involved in freight transport along
  this axis firms, transport and logistics
  companies, ports, multi-modal platforms, chambers
  of commerce
• 52 members and more than 200 companies and
  institutions interested in the project

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Initiatives and projects underway
FERRMED ASSOCIATION ACTION PLAN

• Production of a technical study on the proposed
  solution and the economic and logistical
  importance of this freight axis for southern
  Europe. The demonstrative study has just ended
• Promotion of the project and incorporation of
  new members
• Presentation and defence of the project before
  the private, public, European, national and
  regional institutions
• Joint working groups with the relevant
  Administrations in order to achieve the agreed
  objectives and achieve inclusion of the FERRMED
  Freight Axis in the national and European
  high-priority transport programmes

www.ferrmed.com
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Initiatives and projects underway
Co-operation agreements

• Stable links based on the development of joint
  projects in the fields of safety, quality of
  service, training, port-city integration and
  especially in the technological field.

• Alexandria Port Authority - ALEXPORTIC
  Implementation of an e-commerce technological
  platform (PortIC Platform) able to facilitate
  documentary transactions between members of the
  port community. Reengineering documentary
  processes in order to reduce associated costs
  time and money.
• Ports of Tunisia cooperation in electronic data
  interchange (EDI) between the port of Barcelona
  and Tunisian ports Quality Plans and industrial
  and operative safety.
• Other cooperation agreements with Algerian and
  Moroccan ports, and the port of Koper (Slovenia)

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Initiatives and projects underway
MEDCRUISE Association of Med. Cruise Ports
THE ASSOCIATION OF MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE PORTS

• Set up in Rome 1996 to promote the Mediterranean
  as a cruise destination
• 45 member ports, representing 65 Med Cruise Ports
  from 15 different countries
• From the Western to the Eastern Mediterranean,
  from Portugal to Morocco to Russia
• Most of them belong either to the EU or the Meda
  countries

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Initiatives and projects underway
MEDCRUISE
THE ASSOCIATION OF MEDITERRANEAN CRUISE PORTS
COMPETITION Only some ports are included in a
cruise itinerary
COOPERATION In many fields of general interest
for the good of business in the regions
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• Tasks of general interest underway
• Promotion. Marketing campaign focus on cruise
  lines and travel market
• Studies to evaluate developments in the industry
• Security to promote the development of port
  facility security plans and improve the level of
  security in ports
• Quality to develop a global reference frame for
  quality management
• To act as a lobby to defend the interests of Med
  ports
• Sharing information between member ports

www.medcruise.com
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FROM COMPETITION TO CO-OPERATION THE
MEDITERRANEAN PORTS ARENA
Co-operation strategies among Western
Mediterranean ports The experience of the
Port of Barcelona

Eduard Rodés Business Development Director Port
Authority of Barcelona
Genoa, 23 September 2005