The Port of Barcelona is the main transport and services infrastructure in Spain. Its area of influence stretches throughout the Mediterranean, into Southern and Central Europe and North Africa.

The Port's continued increase in goods and passenger traffics has placed it in a leading position among the Mediterranean ports – in 2005, it handled 43.75 million tons of goods, 2,080,000 TEUs, almost 800,000 new vehicles, more than 1,200,000 cruise passengers, 975,000 ferry passengers and 426 shipping lines link it regularly with 400 ports in the five continents.

As part of its ambitious enlargement project, the Port of Barcelona has made a firm commitment to Short Sea Shipping by building new terminals and adapting and improving its infrastructure and accesses and bringing new lines into service publicising them among operators.

Since 2004, the Business Development Management - Customer Service Department (SAC in its Catalan abbreviation), which channels training and promotional activities, has been organising specific course-workshops to bring the reality of Short Sea Shipping closer to its potential users, and this was the origin of the www.2E3S.eu project.

The Grimaldi Group Naples, founded in 1945, is today a specialist in roll on/roll off shipping and currently owns one of the largest fleets of Ro/Ro multipurpose and car carrier vessels in the world.

The Grimaldi Group offers services in 9 different lines all over the world, but is highly specialised in the services plying the Mediterranean.

The Group’s premium service is Short Sea Shipping, connecting different Italian cities with Barcelona, Valencia, Tunis, Toulon (France) or Malta, embracing the South-West Mediterranean Maritime Highway.

The company began running a daily SSS service between Barcelona and Civitavecchia in April 2004.

Grimaldi Group Naples has participated jointly with the Port Authority of Barcelona and Port of Civitavecchia in organising the pilot courses that were held on the vessels that the company operates for the Short Sea Shipping service mentioned above.

L’Autorità Portuale del Porti di Roma e del Lazio (Ports of Rome) represents the network comprising the main ports of the Lazio Region: the Ports of Civitavecchia, Fiumicino and Gaeta, set up to distribute resources in order to promote maritime transport in Lazio.

The three ports have an influence on the economic development of Lazio, although the Port of Civitavecchia is most important in terms of goods and passenger traffic.

Genoa is the natural sea port for northern Italy's most industrialised area and the ideal location to serve the industrial sector and European consumer markets.

The Port of Genoa covers a total area of about 7 million square metres and extends uninterrupted for 20 kilometres along a coastal strip protected by breakwaters and 13 terminals with connections to the road and railway networks.

The Port of Genoa has different Short Sea Shipping lines linking it with Spanish Ports such as Barcelona and Valencia.

Grandi Navi Veloci was founded in 1992 as a result of the decision to introduce new concept ships, able to meet the combined demands of the rapid transport of passengers, vehicles and goods in the Mediterranean.

The company currently offers Short Sea Shipping services linking Genoa, Livorno and Rome with 6 different cities of Spain and with Malta and Tunis, consolidating it as a reference in commercial operators in the Mediterranean area.

The company has run a SSS service between Genoa and Barcelona with six services per week since 1998.

Feve (Ferrocarriles Españoles de Vía Estrecha, meaning "Narrow-Gauge Spanish Railways") is a state-owned Spanish railway company, which operates most of Spain's 1,250 km of metre gauge railway.

The great majority of the narrow-gauge lines operated by FEVE are located in the Northern Spanish coast, which stretches from Galicia in the northwest, through Asturias and Cantabria to the Basque Country (with a branch extending into Castile and León).

As a new partner in GLAD project, FEVE is responsible for making available wagon-classrooms enabled specifically for the school. Its collaboration implies as well other investment in some specific equipment to be used exclusively for the courses like audiovisual equipment. The energy-wagon and service-wagon will also be adapted to the courses’ needs.