Project Overview
OVERVIEW
Med.In.TraD.E. – Mediterranean Integrated Transport for Development Enterprises – is a trans-national project, co-financed by the European Union under the Community Initiative Read all
HIGHLIGHTS
Freight Exchange
One of the results of Medintrade project is the middleware platform which is available, free of charge, to all users who wish to make use of it, which is accessible from this page. During the project the research of the partners focused on identifying a tool able to enhance the possibilities, for transport and logistics operators Read all
TURKEY: PRIVATISATION OF PORT OF BANDIRMA AND SAMSUN
There were approved by the Competition Board “the results of privatization (concession rights for 36 years) between the two main ports in Turkey that belonged to the Turkish State Railways (TCDD), that is of Bandirma, on the Marmara Sea, and Samsun, on the Black Sea. The port of Bandirma was awarded to local society Celebi Holding for an amount of 175.5 million dollars, after a competition that saw 12 players competing, while the port of Samsun saw prevail among six competitors, the Turkish society Ceynak Lojistik, who gave the figure of 125.2 million dollars. Read all
AIRLINE ALARM FOR FUEL COST
The CEO of IATA speaks explicitly of emergency situation.
“The financial situation of airlines is becoming more difficult, and in some cases dramatic”: word of Giovanni Bisignani, director general and CEO of IATA, the global association that collects airlines (excluding those charter). And to make it even more concrete his words, he recalls that in the last six months far 25 companies have left the aircraft grounded because of insolvency. Read all
A real hub for the transportation and logistics from the whole Central Asian, Asian and Middle East areas, on the path towards Europe.
(ICE) - ROME, MAY 22 - During the conference held in Seoul by the UIC (International Union of Railways), the General Director of Turkish State Railways (TCDD) Suleyman Karaman, has proposed to members of a plan Action to allow Turkey to become not only a corridor for freight from Asia (especially from China, via Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Iran), but above all a real hub for the transportation and logistics from the whole Central Asian, Asian and Middle East areas, on the path towards Europe. Read all
Logistic platform, agricultural industry and tourism arise as strategic development lines in Turkey.
During a visit organized in Mersin* on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey, the ICE Office of Istanbul had the opportunity - together with Italian Ambassador in Ankara, the Economic and Commercial Counselor and the Italian Consul in Izmir - to learn, in a series of meetings with entrepreneurs and local authorities, the development of guidelines which will build the economic and social growth of operable. Read all
