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(ANSAmed) - NAPLES, OCTOBER 11 - "Logistics as a driver of development for the international integration of production systems" is the theme of the international conference to be held at the maritime stations of Naples on October 19 and 20.

The conference is being organised by the Campania region, with the collaboration of the regional agency Logica and the Sicily region and will draw conclusions from the ItalMed cooperation project. A number of workshops will take place on the opening day, including "Logistics and integration between Italy and Algeria: new maritime links", "Exchange of best practice in ports and maritime transport for logistical integration between Italy and the Kingdom of Morocco" and "Project for a new Italy-Tunisia maritime line in the Adriatic corridor: analysis of the feasibility conditions".

The second day of the event will include talks on "Territorial cooperation strategies and logistical and transport integration prospects for Italy and countries in the southern Mediterranean" and on logistics as part of the conference entitled "Logistics, development and the international integration of productive systems". The conference will close with the budget and the final results of the ItalMed project.

The project, which was launched in Naples in 2009 together with the ItalBalk project, reserved for relations with the Balkans, was created to improve connections for commercial traffic in the Mediterranean area and for the birth of common entrepreneurial initiatives geared towards improving the level and the quality of services and for encouraging operators to use intermodal solutions. The project was financed as part of the support programme for regional cooperation, which was carried out by Italian regional bodies in collaboration with the country's Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of Economic Development. The leader region in the ItalMed scheme was Campania, but nine other regions were also involved (Abruzzo, Basilicata, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Lazio, Puglia, Sicily, Tuscany and Veneto), as were countries from the southern Mediterranean, namely, Algeria, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.

(ANSAmed)