Rijeka, 14.03.2014.
On Friday, 14.03. Rijeka’s Ciry Hall hosted the closing conference of the European project SETA - South East Transport Axis where results of a three year long project were discussed by representatives of project partners from Croatia (including AGCT), Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia and Italy.
A day earlier the final national SETA workshop was held at the same place, where Mr. Zarko Acinger, AGCT Commercial Manager held a presentation on the “Development od container traffic at Adriatic Gate Container Terminal”.
The SETA - South East Transport Axis – project was launched as a response to the necessity of establishing traffic connections between North and South Europe by a traffic corridor between the Baltic Sea and the Adriatic. Within the SETA project, solutions were created for a significant part of this traffic corridor, from North Adriatic ports, in particular the port of Rijeka, via Zagreb and western Hungary, up to the transhipment centre of Central Europe stretching between Vienna and Bratislava.
As a result of the project a number of measures were suggested, whose implementation by year 2020 should create conditions for efficient and competitive rail link between Central Europe and the North Adriatic ports.
Within the final conference of the EU SETA project a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed, whereby all the project participants have committed themselves to endeavouring in order to implement the measures resulting from the project, so that preconditions are in place for effective and competitive railway connections between central Europe and North Adriatic ports.