The Friuli Venetia Giulia region as a “Strategic territorial platform” on the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor

Abstract

In this paper the Friuli Venetia Giulia (FVG) region is described in terms of a “Strategic territorial platform”. The author, that is a spatial planner, is conscious that this is not the only possible description of a region. But, in this case, it must be recognized that this specific region has, at least in geographical terms, all the potentialities for getting a great deal from its position in the root of the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor, which is an European corridor (along the Nord-South direction) recently established (2013) in the context of the “Core Network” of the Trans European Network for Transport (TEN-T). For transforming the geographical potentiality in a real and concrete new development opportunity for the whole region, the maritime regional ports must be upgraded and more efficiently connected with the whole logistic and infrastructure system distributed in the region. In the meanwhile, this system must be more efficiently connected with the main productive zones located in the region. This perspective, to be effective, requires that public policies (both at national and regional level) and regional spatial planning, deploy these supply chains in the real physical territory also as a precondition for attracting both private investments, for realizing the lacking infrastructure, and efficient operators in transport service management. But these may be attracted only if public decision and plans can assure a stable policy framework and pursue certain and reliable implementation times and rules