The "MED.IN.TRA.D.E." project, co-financed by the EC's Interreg III programme, concerns the improvement of the inter-modal transport infrastructures in the lower Adriatic and South- east Meditterranean regions. Recognising thet in spite of growing economic and cultural relations between Italy, Greece and Turkey thet the transport infrastructure is not used to its fullest potential in this hub of international goods and passenger transport, the Med.in.tra.d.e. project aim to improve existing transport infrastructure within the region, whilst reducing the entry barriers which are currently faced by borh private and public operators in the region concerned. At the core of this project is also understanding the increasingly strategic role of Southern Italy within the South-East Mediterranean region.

Medintrade objectives are:

• Identifying politics of integration and optimisation
• providing concrete and operative actions to create synergy among transport systems of countries involved

• Beneficiaries of the project are business and enterprises in the region concerned.

The project is divided into following six phases:

• Phase 1: State of the art mapping of the region
• Phase 2: Definition of a model for the integration of existing and new systems
• Phase 3: Experimentation
• Phase 4:Project Management and Coordination
• Phase 5:Communication and Dissemination of Project results
• Phase 6:Monitoring and Evaluation

MED.IN.TRA.D.E. intends to ensure the following results:

• connections created among the actors involved (distributors, autotransporter, producers, re-sellers, etc) in order to create a value chain in the goods transport systems in the regions concerned;
• the development of an integrated development strategy concerning transport policies at regional and trans-national levels able to coordinate the different initiatives which are currently underway and for the sharing of investment and transport policies among the regions;
• to increase the flow of transportation among the regions;
• to introduce stable and innovative systems  for the management of good and logistics and for the development of integrated logigs and networks which will allow to evaluate existing human resources within the logistics, transport and service sectors;
• the creation of a platform which would bring together, under one roof, information regarding all partner regions and allow for the consultation of transport information regarding all project partners (and related entities) contributing to the oparative integration.

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