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Ventspils, 21th of February
Ports of the Baltic Sea will research maritime routes
International collaborative project with the well-sounding name in English
Amber Coast Logistics two days gathered representatives of the Baltic Sea
ports and transport sector from six countries. The European Union has
granted EUR 3 million for research and development of transport corridors.
20 partners from six countries, including the Freeport of Ventspils Authority that gathered all to
the first working seminar last week, have united for the project with international name Amber
Coast Logistics (ACL) for collaboration aimed at research of transport corridors in the eastern
and southern regions of the Baltic Sea. Also the Freeport of Riga Authority and Latvian Logistics
Association from Latvia have involved in this project. The collaboration of the Ventspils port will
be strengthened not only to the leading port of the project the Port of Hamburg but also to
other ports and transport enterprises of Germany, Denmark as well as Poland and Belarus.
The leading transport and logistics centres including seven port authorities of the Baltic Sea
Region will work together for the next two years in order to improve availability and quality of
the international traffic in the region.
The leading partner of the project ACL is the Port of Hamburg Marketing but total 20 partners
from Germany, Denmark, Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, and other countries are involved uniting
seven port authorities, logistics centres, and public authorities and research institutions of
transport sector.
Project initiators representatives of the Port of Hamburg consider that economic, cultural, and
political ties among the Baltic Sea countries are old and indissoluble. But the Port of Hamburg is
one of the region’s ports that is a route to international traffic. In a current global transit market
it is important to hold and develop already created transit routes at the same time researching
market and new opportunities. It will give an impulse to make such maritime routes and land
roads that would attract more and more new freights. Manager of the Baltic Sea Forum Kurt
Bodewig, former German Minister for Transport, during project opening in Hamburg admitted
that “this European region is characterized by name stability, and we can be proud of it in
today’s circumstances. Already now it constitutes a third of the EU economic capacity.” But vicepresident of the Europlatforms EEIG Kent Bentzen highlighted importance of the logistics
centres emphasizing also the Trans-European Network (TEN) due to which development of such
centres in the eastern region of the Baltic Sea is important.
The aim of the ACL is to unite actors of the transport sector for promotion of collaboration,
exchange of information, and understanding, therefore several researches, specialist exchange
programs, seminars, and conferences will take place for the next two years.
More information:
Zanda Gulbe, Freeport of Ventspils Authority
Zanda.Gulbe@vbp.lv
www.vbp.lv
http://www.ambercoastlogistics.com