TUNIS - A Tunisian-Italian trade and partnership day was opened, on Wednesday in Tunis, by Transport Minister Abderrahim Zouari, with attendance of Italy's ambassador in Tunis, Mr. Pietro Benassi.
The event was organised at the Italian Foreign Trade Institute's initiative in association with the Merchant Marine and Ports Board.
The event is part of developing trade exchanges between the Tunisian ports and those of the Italian province of Liguria, a region which is the Mediterranean's main port pole with a basin covering a 150-kilometre coastal line, and includes the Savona, Genoa and Spezia ports.
The objective is to develop sea transport between the two countries and lay down the foundations for the Mediterranean space's logistic and economic integration.
The day was marked by the signing of an outline agreement providing for the establishment of a sea highway between the port of Radés and Genoa's. The accord will help identify joint projects, exchange good practices between the two ports to energise trade exchanges, the free flow of goods between the two sides and establish an e-data exchanges between the two platforms.
The goal consists in shortening deadlines, cutting costs, improving quality of services, further guaranteeing security of logistics channel, ensuring symmetry of operations between the two countries and integrating the networks of transport, inter-modes and logistics.
© Agence Tunis Afrique Presse 2010
