Baltic-Adriatic Axis

23/12/2013

"Christmas is a time of joy, a time for love and cheer, a time for making memories, to last throughout the year!"

Thank you sincerely for the dedicated BATCo cooperation in the past year. We wish you and your loved ones a blessed and merry Christmas and happiness and success in the New Year 2014!

19/11/2013

Connecting Europe: MEPs approve new infrastructure funds

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/de/news-room/content/20131115IPR24720/html/Connecting-Europe-MEPs-approve-new-infrastructure-funds

Alles Aktuelle vom Pressedienst des Europäischen Parlaments: Abstimmungen, Entschließungen, Aussprachen, Ausschüsse und Plenartagungen.

02/07/2013

European Parliament Transport and Tourism Committee approves TEN-T core network and backs "Connecting Europe Facility" to invest in Trans-European transport infrastructure

A map and guidelines for developing the Transeuropean Transport Networks (TEN-T) in 2014-2020 were amended by the Transport and Tourism Committee on Tuesday. Mature national infrastructure projects in the core network will have to compete for funding from the new "Connecting Europe facility" (CEF).

TEN-T funding should help primarily to build or upgrade cross-border sections and missing links so as to remove remaining bottlenecks in the core network by 2030, MEPs say. The new instrument should also link remote or insular regions into the EU network and help create modern, multimodal nodes and plate-forms in airports, inland and maritime ports.

Multimodal corridors

After adding a few qualifying infrastructure projects to the core network, the Transport Committee approved the map of ten corridors, initially drafted by the Commission together with member states. Each corridor must be overseen by an EU coordinator, say MEPs, and all private, national, regional or local partners should be involved at an early planning stage to avoid future construction delays.

Primary instrument for EU integration and economic growth

"This is the project of the European transport policy", said rapporteur Georgios Koumoutsakos (EPP, EL) after the vote, "as it will benefit every single European citizen, be it for trade, work, tourism or environmental reasons. This project will enable us to turn a patchwork of national transport networks into an integrated EU network by 2030", he added.

Transport infrastructure projects to complete EU's core network

Three-fifths of future CEF funding is earmarked to develop modern, sustainable, safe and high performance trans-European transport networks. Designed to carry forecast future traffic flows, they aim to improve the EU's overall competitiveness, reduce transport's carbon footprint and boost the single market by optimising the interoperability of various transport modes. Ports, logistics platforms and "motorways of the sea" will form and integral part of the network.

Projects will be selected annually, on criteria that include maturity and EU added value, with a special view to removing bottlenecks and bridging missing links, particularly on cross-border sections.

28/06/2013

The Baltic-Adriatic Transport Cooperation presents the 5th BATCo Newsletter. Download Link -->http://www.baltic-adriatic.eu/upload/file/BATCo_NL_5_en.pdf

21/05/2013

Publication of BATCo project in "Project Stories from the CE Programme - Sustainable Public Transport and Logistic", issue May 2013

11/04/2013

Global Marine Trends 2030 – three scenarios shaping the future of the world’s maritime industries

Lloyd’s Register, Qinetiq and Strathclyde University released Global Marine Trends 2030, a report based on two years of research into the future of the maritime industries indicating strong growth for the maritime sector in the years up to 2030 and an even bigger role for China in the maritime world, as seaborne trade increases from 9 billion tonnes annually to between 19-24 billion tonnes.

The report indicates that 2030 could usher in a world where China would own a quarter of the merchant fleet. Almost half of offshore oil is taken from the deepest waters and there are 100 times as many offshore wind platforms. The tanker fleet grows the slowest of all the major ship-types and the number of containerships with a capacity that exceed 7,600 teu grows three times faster than those below that threshold.

These are just some highlights in a vast report with insight into all key areas related to maritime.

Download the report at www.lr.org/gmt2030

Global Marine Trends 2030

11/04/2013

7th Partner Meeting incl. 5th PMB Meeting and 2nd TCPs Meeting took place in Trieste/IT (April 9th until April 10th, 2013).

04/02/2013

BATCo FINAL CONFERENCE will take place on June 20th, 2013 in Klagenfurt (Austria)

19/12/2012

"There's more, much more to Christmas than just candle-lights and cheer; it's the spirit of sweet friendship that brightens all the years."

Thank you sincerely for the dedicated BATCo cooperation in the past year. We wish you and your loved ones a blessed and merry Christmas and happiness and success in the New Year 2013!

14/12/2012

Pan European Networks: Government, issue 4 November 2012

29/11/2012

Transport: New portal on Trans-European Network with dynamic maps

The European Commission is launching today a public portal allowing citizens and businesses to access up to date information on the advancement of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) through satellite-based dynamic maps, facts, figures and various audio-visual and interactive elements. In practice, it will allow users to see the live development of the TEN-T network in the region of their interest.

Vice-President Kallas, the Commissioner responsible for Transport welcomes the new portal: "The Trans-European Transport networks are the key infrastructure links to ensure our goods can flow and people can travel smoothly through Europe. This new tool allows everyone to see how he can benefit from the connections financed with the help of the EU budget."

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