Port of Trieste, Transalpine Pipeline (TAL), TUM International GmbH and Camera di Commercio Italo-Tedesca have joined forces in a joint competence center. 

The Competence Center for Port and Energy Logistics is addressing the need for interconnected management systems along global supply chains by establishing energy-driven clusters through Bavarian-Italian cooperation.

The center is also intended to strengthen the competitiveness of the Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Bavaria region as a European ecosystem of connected value chains and to generate sustainable growth. The strategic partnership optimizes and accelerates the parties cooperation and helps to establish long-term business relationships with public and private actors on a global scale. The center provides knowledge, experience and technologies worldwide, e.g. in the fields of port infrastructure development, energy logistics, pipeline operation, development of economic zones and digitalization of critical infrastructures.