Corfu Port: ARGONAUT project for sustainable maritime tourism begins

The Corfu Port Authority S.A. announced its information successful the ARGONAUT project, a cross-border inaugural within the model of the Interreg VI-A Greece-Italy 2021-2027 program, which aims to beforehand sustainable shipping and “green” maritime tourism.

At the opening meeting, which took spot successful Taranto, Italy, the CEO, Dimitris Apergis, met with Gianfranco Gadaleta, coordinator of the Joint Secretariat of the Interreg Greece-Italy program, arsenic well arsenic with Dimitris Katsaros, caput wide of the Decentralized Administration of the Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian. The gathering marked the authoritative start of a task that is expected to importantly upgrade larboard infrastructure and strengthen the planetary representation of Corfu and Greece successful the maritime tourism sector.

ARGONAUT aims to respond to the environmental, economical and κοινωνικά challenges of nautical tourism successful the Greek-Italian maritime region, focusing connected coastal zones and marinas burdened by seasonal traffic and biology pressures.

Strategic partners from Italy and Greece lend with specialized expertise: the pb spouse from Italy undertakes the coordination and improvement of the Adriatic Maritime Route Planner, while entities from Puglia and the municipality of Gallipoli lend to the training, skills strengthening and connection of the project.

In Greece, the Corfu larboard leverages its acquisition from European and INTERREG projects, undertaking innovative actions of integer solutions and greenish mobility, while the Decentralized Administration of Peloponnese, Western Greece and the Ionian ensures the dissemination of results successful three regions.

At the aforesaid time, the Port Authority of Patras brings its know-how to larboard infrastructures, with a aviator exertion of greenish technologies

Main actions of the task include:

Development of the Adriatic Maritime Route Planner: a digital, AI-assisted level for safer and “greener” maritime routes successful existent time.

Green transformation of aviator ports successful Gallipoli, Corfu and Patras, with electrical vessel charging stations.

Creation of the ARGONAUT Network, a cross-border web for the speech of champion practices successful nautical tourism.

Theoretical and applicable training programs for sustainable navigation and larboard management.