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In the 2012 containerized trade in the port of Gioia Tauro it has grown of the 18.5%
The calabrian port of call has enlivened approximately 2.720.000 teu
January 9, 2013
In the 2012 port of Gioia Tauro it has enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to approximately 2.720.000 teu, with a progression of the 18.5% on the year precedence. The Harbour Authority of the calabrian port of call has emphasized as the data represents "an important goal that it goes beyond the expectations", "than Gioia Tauro confirmation the first Italian port in the field of the container and attests, above all, that the calabrian port of call has had the greater increase between all the great Italian ports of call of field. Jumping, so, in a central position in the circuit of the Mediterranean".
The harbour agency has announced that the same course to the rise is recorded in the field of the cars that has closed 2012 with 145.121 cars enlivened regarding 108.367 in 2011 (+33.9%).
The Harbour Authority has found that to the base of the resumption of the containerized trade "there is certainly the entrance of the MSC of Aponte (through its associate TIL) that it has put down roots to Gioia Tauro, after to have acquired the 33% of the actions of the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) (( of 17 January 2012, ndr). From that day - it has specified the harbour agency - the presence in dock of the Mediterranean Shipping Company has attract attention, with a constant increase and salary of its ships. It is not a case, therefore, if the agreement, very to foresee, were greeted with interest from the president of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, ingegner Giovanni Grimaldi".
Moreover the Port Authority has evidenced as "to giving man hard to the positive climate they have been the attache's to the port of call, thanks to theirs recognized professionality, that they have recovered with stubborness the necessary productivity".
The president of the agency has remembered at last the recent initiatives for the potenziamento of the connections of the port with hinterland and the markets, before between all the publication of the ban of international contest for the realization of the railway gateway: "thanks to the development of the intermodalità, that it is the natural completion of the service of transhipment of our port of call, and seen its centrality in the Mediterranean - has explained Giovanni Grimaldi - Gioia Tauro could, so, to be a strategic European intermodal corridor and, also, a node of national importance, as he assumes the role of crossroads of various modalities of transport".
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