This study seeks to provide a detailed analysis of the logistics and transport sector in the Euro-Mediterranean region by outlining the current position and main challenges faced by each mode of transport. The report also tackles the economic importance of the Euro-Mediterranean trade and investment relations and ways of enhancing these relations through deep and comprehensive free trade areas (DCFTAs). It aims at providing a framework for establishing an integrated multimodal and more competitive Euro-Mediterranean logistics and transport sector and prescribes the pre-requisites, guidelines and prospective actions that need to be done in order to achieve this goal and to reach the ultimate objective: a common Euro-Mediterranean transport space.
EBSOMED is a 4-year project, co-financed by the European Union and coordinated by BUSINESSMED as part of a consortium of six partners. More than thirty organisations from 26 countries are also affiliated to the project....