{"id":4051,"date":"2014-11-12T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2014\/11\/12\/mediterranean-ports-fight-for-eu-funding\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:36:58","slug":"mediterranean-ports-fight-for-eu-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2014\/11\/12\/mediterranean-ports-fight-for-eu-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Mediterranean ports fight for EU funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the same time, the group is working to convince Brussels of \u201cthe vital role that the ports of the Mediterranean could play in the construction of a competitive European freight transport system\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Intermed claims that ports in the Mediterranean represent an opportunity for Europe&#8217;s transport system, which if ignored would compromise connectivity, competitiveness and the fight against environmental issues in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Significantly, this communiqu\u00e9 came just two weeks after the ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp, Hamburg, Zeebrugge, Bremen, Amsterdam, Groningen and Moerdijk lobbied the Commission to limit the allocation of funding to Southern European ports, claiming that this would not guarantee a sufficient return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barcelona, Marseille and Genova have, through the Intermed Association, called on the European Commission to get involved in a debate in respect of funding for the TEN-T network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-4051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4053,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4051\/revisions\/4053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4051"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=4051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}