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ORTs as a gateway for Access inner regions (PORTA)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: May 29, 2013,

The project concerns the congestion of shipping systems because of bottlenecks at the access of urban ports, deepening: 1. infrastructural and intermodal criticality in interregional/local transportation networks 2. economic influence and environmental impacts of shipping in the coastal metropolitan systems and their hinterland 3. integration of urban/transport policies between the issues o ...
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Multi-modal Innovation for Sustainable Maritime & Hinterland Transport Structures (PORT INTEGRATION)

Start date: Dec 31, 2009, End date: Dec 30, 2012,

Port Integration - Multi-modal innovation for sustainable maritime & hinterland transport structures is designed to identify, exchange & transfer best practices in the transport sector with the aim of an overall integration of related policies. Background is the recent increase of European transport flows leading to imbalances in the usage of different transport modes. While landside especially th ...
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Common Mediterranean strategy and local practical Actions for the mitigation of Port, Industries and Cities Emissions (APICE)

Start date: May 31, 2010, End date: Nov 29, 2012,

APICE proposes a decision-making approach & related set of mitigation measures that assume the impact of air pollution sources as driver for the coast management in port-cities. This model is based on a stronger coordination of environmental and spatial planning policies, leading to curb emissions and preserving economic potentialities of port-cities. Results will be owned by some of the main MED ...
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Mediterranean Ports' Contribution to Climate Change Mitigation (CLIMEPORT)

Start date: Jan 4, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

The CLIMEPORT project encourages Mediterranean Ports to combat climate change reducing greenhouse emissions and fostering a better use of energy in order to achieve sustainable development in port communities. During the project, an extensive benchmarking process will be carried out within the Mediterranean port sector concerning the use of environmental good practices and renewable energies in po ...
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Container terminals as a key element in the Mediterranean short sea shipping (TERCONMED)

Start date: Apr 30, 2009, End date: Apr 29, 2012,

...hort Sea Shipping between the Mediterranean countries has been considered a valid solution in relation to the intentions of the EU. But until the moment, and in a prominent way, for this type of transport we have been using the RO-RO maritime traffic type, which consists in loading the trucks on the vessels, also tractors or only platforms. To carry out these operations, we have ad hoc port termin ...
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MPROVING PRODUCTIVE CLUSTERS ACCESSIBILITY TO GLOBAL MARKET (BACKGROUNDS)

Start date: May 31, 2009, End date: Mar 29, 2012,

BACKGROUNDS aims at developing a governance model involving ports and port infrastructures within the Mediterranean basin and targeting a better integration of existing poles with their own territories and the relevant productive clusters. This would lead to an appreciation of local peculiarities within the general framework of the global market. ...
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Mediterranean Electronic Marine Highways Observatory (MEMO)

Start date: Mar 31, 2009, End date: Mar 29, 2012,

...for enhanced maritime safety and sustainable development of coastal and marine resources in the MED area. The Observatory includes databases, vessel traffic real time vessel monitoring information, ports and Legislation information. Partners worked on a comprehensive and concrete framework for the functional sustainability of the project's outputs and results.Latest project activities and outputsD ...
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EUROESTIBA – Operational training in commercial ports

All big and medium size ports have a development strategy which includes such objectives: Increase the operative efficiency and the qualifications of workers, create new traffics and offers, and develop the co-operation with the towns creating new services in order to promote logistic activities and to manage the important changes created by the liberalisation and globalisation. This project tries ...
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motion of Port Communities SMEs role in Energy Efficiency and GREEN Technologies for BERTHing Operations (GREENBERTH)

During the last years, numerous studies have been carried out in order to determine the impact of port activities over the environment. As an example of that, the most recent project leaded by the Port Authority of Valencia concerning ports impact on climate change, CLIMEPORT, has allowed a better understanding of the degree of influence of key port activities in terms of quantification of GHG emi ...
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Mediterranean Network for Custom Procedures and Simplification of Clearance in Ports (MEDNET)

The proposed project aims to establish and operate a network of port authorities and transport experts in the Mediterranean region, focusing on the exchange of knowledge and expertise with regard to port and custom procedures and simplification of clearance for vessels and cargoes. This is expected to enhance the common understanding and promote the introduction of information systems to ports ope ...
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Optimizing and profiting best practices in the MED Area on foreign trade, intermodal, transport and maritime safety (OPTIMIZEMED)

...e capitalization of the result, involving the different agents that have to profit it: - IMPROVING THE SUPPLY CHAIN BY USING INNOVATIVE IT TOOLS. Promoting the intermodality in the logistics and transport chain to reduce external costs is one of the main axes of European policy related to transport. A lot of projects of Med and similar programs have been developed in this field as BACKGROUNDS, TRA ...
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