General objectives

1) To augment the level of economic integration of the two national production systems through the increase of commercial inter-change and direct investments on Italian businesses in the Balkans.

2) To support Italy’s role as the logistic platform of Mediterranean and Balkan countries on the East-West and North-South corridors.

3) To improve Italian regions’ capacity in the management of international cooperation programmes on transport and logistics as well as in the initiatives for supporting regional entrepreneurship in the field of services abroad.

Expected Results

1) The implementation of a network composed of institutional bodies and Italian and Balkan public and private economic operators in the sectors of transport and logistics, so as to ensure the constant inter-change of information, the emergence of joint projects between the two areas and the coordination of cooperation initiatives

2) The definition of at least 3 hypotheses (one per country) for new maritime and/or air-lines between ports and airports in Albania, Montenegro and Serbia

3) The emergence of shared business initiatives realized by public and private bodies from Italy and the beneficiary countries aimed at augmenting and enhancing the level and quality of transport and logistics services, at encouraging harmonization of operational and management standards on the crossing corridors in the countries involved as well as at leading the operators towards the use of intermodal techniques and solutions

Project Structure

Sub-project 1
Acquisition and data analysis and information on issues of logistics and freight transport on routes Italy-Balkans.

Sub-project 2
Analysis of technical and economic feasibility of new air and shipping routes between Italy and the Balkan countries.

Country Sub-projects 3 to 4
Development of relations in logistics and freight transport with: Albania, Serbia and Montenegro.

Type of service

Technical assistance to Friuli Venezia Giulia region

Cooperation to output 4