The Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) launched on Tuesday a new project, called "Trans-Loj Med", aimed at improving maritime connectivity and multimodal transport in the Mediterranean region.
The announcement of the launch of this project comes at the conference on "Maritime Transport and Logistics Services", organized by the union, for two days, in the Egyptian city of Ismaila, in collaboration with the Economic Authority of Suez Canal.
In an address on this occasion, UfM Deputy Secretary General Ihab Fahmiy said that seven countries namely, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Italy, Spain, Tunisia and Algeria will benefit from this five-year project, which aims to promote sustainable solutions through knowledge transfer and training programs for more than 1,000 employees in the transport and logistics sector.
"Tans-Loj Med", which will be implemented by the European School of Multimodal Transport, aims to contribute to the establishment of a sustainable network and likely to allow the mutual use of infrastructure in the transport sector at the level of the Mediterranean basin.
The 43 member states of the union unanimously approved this project in November 2017 as a priority project to enhance sustainable transport connectivity in the Mediterranean region.
Some project activities have already been launched in the ports of Tangier Med, Barcelona, Civitavecchia, Genoa and Rades. The activities of this project will also be launched soon in the ports of Nador, Sfax, Mostaganem, Alexandria, Domiat, Port Said and Aqaba, noted Fahmi.
It should be noted that the volume of container traffic across the Mediterranean represents around 30% of the global container traffic at the international level, while maritime commercial traffic between the Mediterranean countries is estimated at 25% of the volume of world traffic.
The Mediterranean basin has great potential to achieve a high level of integration of maritime trade between the two shores, and can be exploited through the strengthening of multimodal solutions and the effectiveness and sustainability of transportation and logistics services.
The conference on "Maritime transport and logistics services" aims to examine the possibility of linking the Mediterranean basin and its ports in order to ensure a more efficient maritime transport system and to enhance the opportunities for cooperation between the Mediterranean States in the fields thereon.
During this meeting, it will be presented the successful experiences of ports and maritime sectors in the Mediterranean countries and the examination of multimodal solutions in the Mediterranean region, in addition to presentations on port logistics services and implementation. cooperation.
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