Author: Viola Defend

The next creative morning, run by the “paper engineer” Annalisa Metus, will take place Saturday  16 November from 11:00 to 12:00 and will provide children between the ages of 5 and 10 with the opportunity to built a cardboard copy of the Free Port through a pop-up theatre performance that will feature some of what were the Port’s most characteristic elements 300 years ago: sailing ships, bundles of cargo, and warehouses.

The last appointment will take place on Saturday 30 November, with a special Christmas edition in view of the forthcoming Christmas festivity.

The 50-minute workshops will take place at 11:00 and will be attended by 12 children each. Interested parents should reserve a space for their child at: https://portoftrieste300.com/eventi/

Photo credits: Roberto Pastrovicchio

A special, iconic cup recalling the colourful containers that fill the port is illycaffè’s creative tribute to the 300th anniversary of the institution of the Free Port of Trieste. This exclusive series has been issued in a highly limited edition and presented by illycaffé’s art director Carlo Bach to the Italian and international guests who took part in the “Trieste Intermodal Day – TID”, an incubator on future logistics and intermodality in Europe, and an annual event launched yesterday for the first time by the Port Network Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea at Molo Bersaglieri’s, Magazzino 42.

The illy commemorative coffee cup pays tribute to the port of Trieste, which for three centuries has been and continues to be the city’s economic engine. The cup uses the multi-faceted language of art to celebrate both Trieste’s vocation as a trade hub and one of its most renowned products, coffee. In fact, since 1992 illy has been decorating its cups with works by international artists, over 100 of them so far. The cup celebrating the Free Port’s 300th anniversary was decorated by illy’s own in-house creative team, who gave the saucer a unique elongated shape recalling a ship’s hull, and uses colour to represent logistics and intermodality, the two jewels in the Trieste port’s crown, and the reason why Trieste has been a major trade hub ever since the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

“We are honoured that illycaffè, one of Trieste’s most renowned companies, has decided to issue one of its famous decorated coffee cups to celebrate the port of Trieste on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Free Port” commented Zeno D’Agostino, President of the Port Network Authority. “To be celebrated with this special item is a source of pride for us, and a concrete sign that for the port to thrive, relations with the city and its entrepreneurial fabric are essential. Much like the colourful containers depicted on the coffee cups, the TID that just ended was a source of inspiration and creativity, both of which are necessary to extend ideas and inspiration to an ever-growing hinterland that is local, national, European, and global in nature” concluded D’Agostino.

Arising out of the Authority’s desire to stage an event that could bring to Trieste all of the main players on the international logistics scene, TID is inspired by the famous TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) conference format from the United States, which stresses interaction with the audience and encourages “cross-contamination”. At TID, scientific and technological aspects, business models, information technology, artificial intelligence, and philosophy “cross-contaminate” the conference’s vision of the logistics and intermodality of the future. About 300 guests, including CEOs, presidents, and other senior executives from Italian and international businesses attended yesterday’s English-language event, where they enjoyed wide-ranging discussions on the future of logistics and connectivity, set to the music of the European Spirit of Youth Orchestra – ESYO, featuring talented young musicians from throughout Europe.

Trieste, 9 September 2019 – Technology, innovation, environment, society, ideas, business: all this and more will be the focus of “Trieste Intermodal Day – TID” to be held on Thursday, 19 September at Magazzino 42 at the Trieste Maritime Station. This is an incubator focusing on the issues of European logistics and intermodality in the future, which encourages free discussion and features leading international speakers. Arising out of the Port Network Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea’s desire to stage an event that could bring to Trieste all of the main players on the international logistics scene, TID is inspired by the famous TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) conference format from the United States, which stresses a relationship with the audience that is different from that of traditional conferences and encourages “cross-contamination”. In this manner, scientific and technological aspects, business models, information technology, artificial intelligence, and philosophy will all intervene in Trieste to “cross-contaminate” the conference’s vision of the logistics and intermodality of the future.

About 300 guests are expected at the Port of Trieste for this English-language event, which shall take place on 19 September. Participants will include CEOs, presidents, and other leading executives from Italian and international businesses who are interested in hearing wide-ranging discussions on the future of logistics and connectivity, set to the music of the European Spirit of Youth Orchestra – ESYO, featuring talented young musicians from throughout Europe, in keeping with the spirit of the event. TID’s goal is to inspire and create new perspectives, launching an annual gathering of leading professionals, scientists, opinion leaders, and innovators who can bring back vision and new perspectives to Trieste and the surrounding region.

“We are proud to introduce the first Trieste Intermodal Day, an event that fully reflects the nature of the Port of Trieste” explains Zeno D’Agostino, President of the Port Network Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea. “TID, much like our port, is a constantly growing international model of connectivity that can bring together people and ideas in a central, creative incubator, where inspiration does not stand still, but is instead projected onto an increasingly wider European and global hinterland. Thanks to the Trieste Intermodal Day we hope to involve, inspire, provide food for thought, and promote new opportunities through an event that we felt was ideal for celebrating the 300th anniversary of the Free Port, a place that has always linked together people, visions, ideas, and business deals” concludes D’Agostino.

The “Trieste Intermodal Day – TID” is part of the rich bill of events organized by the Port Network Authority of the Eastern Adriatic Sea to commemorate the institution of the Free Port on the part of Emperor Charles VI in 1719. More information about the event, along with bios of the speakers, can be found on the website https://www.triesteintermodalday.it/

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credits: Roberto Pastrovicchio