The Project

Press Release - End of Med.In.Tra.D.E. Project

Matera, 25th July 2008 – This morning the final meeting of Med.In.Tra.D.E. project coordinated by the Provincia di Matera, was held at the Mediateca Provinciale of Matera.

The event was attended by: Mr.Carmine Nigro (President of the Province of Matera), Mr. Giovanni Ianuzziello (Vice president of the Province of Matera), Mr. Michael Gikas (Vice President of the Prefecture of Thesprotia – Greece), Mr.Lorenzo Cirasino (Councillor for community policies of the Province of Brindisi), Mr. Innocenzo Loguercio (Councillor for infrastructures, public works and mobility - Region of Basilicata), Mr. Salvatore Vito Valentino (Manager of transport and production activities - Province of Matera), Mr. Sotirios Georgoulis (Project Manager Assistant Prefecture of Thesprotia – Greece), Mr. Carmine Campana (Port authority of Brindisi), Mr. Frixos Nasis (Planning department Prefecture of Preveza – Greece), Fabio Bertella (Optisoft Srl - Region of Puglia), Tugrul Gunay (Undersecretariat of Maritime Affairs).

“Med.In.Tra.D.E., is a transnational project co-financed by the European Union within the framework of the Community Initiative Programme Interreg III B Archimed. The project was set up after considering the increasingly strategic role – says Giovanni Ianuzziello, Vice-President of the Provincia, - of the South-Eastern Mediterranean area, in particular of Southern Italy, Greece and Turkey, taken into account the growing interest and relationships of private and public bodies. In spite of the growth of economic and cultural relationships, the South-Eastern Mediterranean area lacks a good integration of transport and logistic systems. In order to fill in this old logistic gap we have designed an operative model that can adjust the transport networks to the structural conditions, to the market opportunities, to the economic benefits of the whole production system.”

Among the project partners worth mentioning are: the Province of Brindisi; the Port Authority of Brindisi; the Region of Puglia; the Prefecture of Thesprotia; the Port Authority of Igoumenitsa; the Prefecture of Preveza and the Turkish Undersecretariat of Maritime Affairs.

The projects achieved the following results:

• Identification of integration policies and optimization of freight transports, logistics services as well as intermodal junctions in the Adriatic and in the Middle-Eastern Mediterranean, focusing on the traffic between Southern Italy, Greece and Turkey;
• Promotion of operative actions in order to set up synergies among transport systems of the areas involved;
• Development of tools and methodologies to guarantee the safe and continuous movement of goods and people.

“It is for the need of collaborating in a common effort – underlines Carmine Nigro, President of the Provincia, – to set up steady and lasting relationships, that the district government decided to be the lead partner of a project that we hope can be continued. Already, two projects have been submitted and by the end of this year we will know whether they will be funded. As a result, with the new funds, we could extend the activities of the permanent Observatory on transport and mobility located in Matera and at the same time optimize the Middleware platform, which is a tool able to match the supply and the demand for all project partners.”