In increase the traffic of the container in the port of Bari generated from the landings place of the MSC ships



The Harbour Authority of the East has announced that, if the current trend will be confirmed, this year the landings place to the port of Bari of the portacontainer of the company Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), than from the end of the 2010 they scale the apulian port with the assistance of the Istop Spamat, will be able to allow to reach very near those 30,000 container teu annual enlivened that they represented a first objective to reach proporzionatamente to the economic potentialities of the territory and to the abilities to the harbour infrastructure.

The traffic from January to July 2012 - it has specified the harbour agency - almost is tripled regarding 2011 reaching the 17,477 teu and the incidence of the empty ones is of 18.9%, merely functional to the filling of the container that must then be boarded from Bari.

"Left on the sly, in a period of extraordinary difficulty of the economy - it has emphasized the Harbour Authority - the handling activity container in the port of Bari, managed from shipowner MSC and the harbour enterprise Istop Spamat, is carrying out totally own role to the service of the productive woven one of the territory. The strategic lines of the Harbour Authority did not preview and they do not preview to dedicate great spaces, also in the next forecasts of adaptation of infrastructures, to the traffic container - it has remembered the agency - how much to inside integrate such type of traffic of the polifunzionale vocation of the port of Bari. This formulation, than sets which prorated objectives of traffic to the spaces available and to the potentialities of the local market, it is being revealed it win".

The Harbour Authority has explained that to benefit of the opportunities offered from the port of call weekly magazine of a ship MSC in the port of Bari they are above all the local exporter, and the main ones producing exported are beer, salotti, marbles, fertilizers and cars. The enlivened medium weight for teu is of 7,9 tons, while that enlivened in export is of 12,9 tons, online with the best performances to European level.

"These flattering results - it has concluded the Port Authority - encourage the Harbour Authority of the East to pursue politics of integration with the territory to the service of the commercial flows of traffic and tourist of which, the ports administered from the Authority, can be precious they fly".