The Secretariat of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) launched today the LOGISMED Training Activities (LOGISMED-TA) project, which aims at reinforcing the Mediterranean logistics sector. This key project will serve as a vector for development in the Southern Mediterranean countries in view of facilitating transport and strengthening trade flows in the region.
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The LOGISMED Training Activities (LOGISMED-TA) project will contribute to the creation of a more competitive and efficient network of Euro-Mediterranean Logistics Platforms by increasing the training offer and improving the level of qualifications of the logistics platforms’ personnel. These series of training activities will be implemented during the period 2013-2018 in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia.
LOGISMED Training Activities (LOGISMED-TA) is an UfM labelled project endorsed by the 43 member countries of the Union for the Mediterranean. This project is promoted by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and funded by the European Commission and the Deauville Partnership Transition Fund. Author: Union for the Mediterranean May 2013 Read more
Barcelona, 15 May 2013. The preparatory work of the UfM Euro-Mediterranean Sustainable Urban Development Strategy that started in March 2012 following the request by the First Ministerial Conference of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) on Sustainable Urban Development (Strasbourg, November 2011), has been successfully concluded on the occasion of the Fifth Senior Official ExpertsRead more
Barcelona- Date: 10 May, 2013 The Fifth Senior Official Experts Meeting will be held in Barcelona on 10 May 2013, with the aim to conclude the preparatory work of the UfM Euro-Mediterranean Sustainable Urban Strategy, as mandated by the Ministers in charge of Urban Development on the occasion of the “First Ministerial Conference of theRead more
UfM headquarters. Barcelona – Start date: 22.04.2013 The meeting is organised in the framework of the Euro-Med Transport Cooperation. It follows from the conclusions and recommendations of the 12th Working Group Infrastructure & Regulatory issues and the 10th Euro-Mediterranean Transport Forum that were held in January 2013, with the aim to create an ad-hoc Committee toRead more
Geneva, 17 April 2013. UfM Secretariat Deputy Secretary General, Ambassador Yigit Alpogan, and International Road Transport Union (IRU) Secretary General Emeritus, Mr. Martin Marmy, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the aim to further facilitate and secure trade around the Mediterranean basin by implementing key UN multilateral trade and transport facilitation instruments, such asRead more
The measures of the RTAP were formulated by the Mediterranean partners themselves in accordance to national needs and objectives. Consequently the measures of the RTAP have been largely taken into account in the development of various policy strategies and national action plans in the field of transport. The regional vision of the RTAP was dictated by the guidelines ofRead more
In 2005, ten years after the launch of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership, also known as the Barcelona process, the first Euro-Mediterranean Ministerial Conference on Transport took place in Marrakech. On this occasion, the ministers of transport of the EU and the Mediterranean called for an intensification of the cooperation with and within the Mediterranean region in the field of transport.Read more
Discussions between UfM Secretary General Sijilmassi and Turkish Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Transport focused on possible ways of operational cooperation between Turkey and the Secretariat of the UfM, especially in the area of transport.
