Interreg ITALY-CROATIA

Improving the last MILE accessibility of Adriatic PORTs

Period: 01/02/2024 – 31/07/2026
Total Budget: € 2.575.574,60
Countries: Italy and Croatia

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES

“MILEPORT” is a European cross-border cooperation project between Italy and Croatia in which the North Adriatic Sea Port Authority (ADSPMAS) – Ports of Venice and Chioggia, participates as a partner, with the aim of improving the accessibility of the last mile of the Adriatic ports. This accessibility affects their integration into their cities and hinterlands, causing inefficiency of multimodal transport, weaker economic growth, increased transport-related air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve the project objective, medium and long-term digital planning tools will be developed, such as: vehicle booking systems/transport flow optimization and port gate optimization, testing them with local pilot actions.

EXPECTED RESULTS

As part of the project, actions planned for ADSPMAS are focused on the monitoring of heavy traffic and the optimization of port gates, aimed in particular at the creation of a traffic monitoring station at the port of Venice, connected to a broader system of detection (i.e. digitalized systems of other management bodies), in order to implement the control of road traffic accessing the port and carry out the monitoring over the entire last mile until the motorway.

In the project, coordinated by the port of Trieste, the ports of Ravenna, Ancona and Bari are involved on the Italian side, in addition to the port of Venice. On the Croatian side, the ports of Rijeka, Zadar and Ploce are represented.

Project Link: https://www.italy-croatia.eu/web/mileport

“Improving the Cyber REsilience and Security of Adriatic PORTs”. 

Period: 01/03/2024 – 30/06/2026
Total budget: € 2,409,862.00
Countries involved: Italy and Croatia

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES
“CRESPORT” is a European project of cross-border cooperation Italy-Croatia in which the North Adriatic Sea Port System Authority (ADSPMAS), ports of Venice and Chioggia, participates as a partner, with the objective of improving the port system’s adherence to the NIS2 directive on cyber security. In order to achieve this objective, a comparison of international best practices in the field of cyber security and dedicated training, which will also involve private operators, in the field of cyber security will be developed, then testing the resilience of the systems with local pilot actions.

EXPECTED RESULTS
CRESPORT aims to address the challenge of providing ports in the area with a more secure and resilient IT infrastructure. Considering ports as critical and vulnerable infrastructures, CRESPORT intends to address this common problem through cooperation and joint actions, which are essential to strengthen territorial cohesion, by adopting a common strategy to ensure compliance with the main international cybersecurity standards (e.g. EU directives, national legislation, IMO recommendations).

In the project, coordinated by the port of Ravenna (Adsp MACS), the ports of Trieste and Ancona are involved on the Italian side. On the Croatian side, instead, the ports of Rijeka, Ploce and Dubrovnik are represented.

Project link: https://www.italy-croatia.eu/web/cresport

DIGITal Twins applications for safer and greener Adriatic PORTS operations

Period: 01/04/2024 – 31/09/2026
Total budget: € 2,384,226.00
Countries involved: Italy and Croatia

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES
‘DIGITPORTS’ is a European funded project of cross-border co-operation Interreg programme Italy-Croatia in which the North Adriatic Sea Port System Authority (NASPA), ports of Venice and Chioggia, participates as co-ordinator with the objective of helping port authorities to achieve full digitalisation of administrative and planning procedures, contribute to the decarbonisation of transport and a better use of resources; adopt a common strategy to ensure a common quality and scalability of the ports’ digital replication model (the so-called “Digital Twins”) and strengthen cooperation in the field of digitisation, creating a cultural change with standard and interoperable quality requirements, setting as a medium-term (10 years) goal the full digitisation of port operations in the Adriatic.

In the project, coordinated by the port of Venice, the ports of Trieste and Ravenna are involved on the Italian side and the ports of Rijeka, Zadar, Split and Ploce on the Croatian side.

EXPECTED RESULTS
As part of the project, pilot actions for the development of the administrative one-stop shop (SUA) are foreseen for NASPA, such as the complete digitisation of the process of granting and authorising works and assets and the computerisation of the related fee schedule; the availability on a cartographic map of the status of assets, as well as the effective management and control of both the technical plan and the economic-financial plan of projects and interventions, with the use of management databases and archives to feed dashboards and analytical reporting systems for analysis (traditional and predictive) on historical, statistical and process data.

Site link: https://www.italy-croatia.eu/web/digitports