GTMO - The Transport Group of the Western Mediterranean - aims to promote cooperation on transport in the Western Mediterranean and to contribute to the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership. The members of GTMO are transport ministers from the seven countries in the region (Algeria, France, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Spain and Tunisia) and the EC Directorate General for Energy and Transport. CETMO holds the posisiton of secretariat, providing technical support.

GTMO activity is organised on the basis of the following priority areas for cooperation:

• Definition and development of a multimodal transport network in the Western Mediterranean, with special emphasis on links with Trans-European networks and networks in neighbouring countries.
• Search for advantageous infrastructure-financing modes from financing partners.
• Transport facilitation, with special emphasis on the transport chain as a whole.
• Upgrading transport-related companies, from the perspective of setting up the free-trade area.
• Enhancing a database and methods allowing for regular identification of priorities in the Western Mediterranean.
• Development of research on transport in the Western Mediterranean and participation of the Maghreb countries in EU research programmes.

• The INFRAMED study.
• A seminar on financing transport infrastructure in the Mediterranean (October 1998).
• A round table on traffic-forecasting methodologies for planning airport infrastructure (June 2000).
• A round table on traffic-forecasting methodologies for planning port infrastructure (July 2000).
• A seminar on facilitation of international transport of goods between the two shores of the Western Mediterranean (May 2001).
• The participation in the following thematic networks of the 5th RTD Framework Programme:
• TRANS-TALK - Policy and Project Evaluation Methodologies.
• THINK-UP - Understanding Mobility Predictions.
• The follow-up of MED-TRANS project on transport statistics in the Mediterranean, sector-based project of MEDSTAT programme.
• The follow-up of the activities carried out in the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean Transport Forum and the participation in its working groups.