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.
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Barcelona – Start date: 26.02.2013 The 5th UfM Working Group on Transport will be held in the UfM premises in Barcelona on 26 February 2013.Lire la suite
Geneva – Start date: 22.11.2012 UfMS Deputy Secretary General for Transport and Urban Development, Ambassador Yigit Alpogan, and Mr. Martin Marmy, Secretary General of the International Road Transport Union (IRU), will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), on the 22nd November 2012, in Geneva. The IRU is the international road transport organization which encompasses 170Lire la suite
The Initiative, co-sponsored by the UfM, aims to create a pipeline of 10 to 15 innovative projects on Sustainable Urban Development in the Southern Mediterranean region, with a financial framework of 5 million Euros.
Barcelona – Start date: 23.10.2012 The IV UfM Working Group on Transport and Urban Development Division will hold a meeting that will cover the following subjects: – Presentation of the state of play of the labeled projects, the projects under study and the project ideas in the Transport sector. – The activities in the Transport sectorLire la suite
The award rewards the joint activity of the UfM, the Center for Transport Studies of the Western Mediterranean (CETMO) and the Mediterranean Universities Union (UNIMED) to raise awareness of the project and build the project framework.
The six-year-term project will focus during the first phase on the training activities at the intermodal platforms in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, which will be in operation in 2015, and it will result in a more competitive and efficient network of Euro-Mediterranean logistic platforms.
The Transport and Urban Development Division of the UfM is actively working on the promotion of two labeled projects that will improve the level of qualifications in the logistics sector and will enhance regional trade in Southern Mediterranean Member countries, respectively.
