the port of Gioia Tauro will close 2013 with a traffic of 3,1 million container (+14%)



Today the port of Gioia Tauro will enliven tremilionesimo the container from the beginning of this year and the port of call will close entire 2013 with a traffic pairs to approximately 3,1 million teu. They have yesterday communicated the president of the Region Calabria, Giuseppe Scopelliti, and the president of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, Giovanni Grimaldi, emphasizing that draft of a result much near the maximum record reached from the container terminal managed from the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) of the group Contship Italy in the calabrian harbour port of call. The record is established in 2008 with almost 3,5 million teu, while last year they are enlivened 2,7 million teu.

Scopelliti and Grimaldi have specified that such result is achieved in a scene of crisis that has contracted remarkablly turned out and expectations to total level. "Draft - it has found the president of the Region - of an important result that it testifies a positive tendency for the strengthened harbour truth is from the participations put in field from the Region that give the presence of MSC and from the return of the Maersk". Scopelliti and Grimaldi in fact have announced the return to Gioia Tauro of the company of Danish navigation Maersk Line, than recently it has tightened with the same Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and with CMA CGM the new shipowning alliance P3 Network that will become operating in according to trimester of the next year, and this - they have evidenced - opens to the perspective of the arrival in the calabrian port "of the ships more large than this trust since the only port of call in Italy to be able to accommodate them".

the president of the Region has observed that they are "positive elements that must be cultured with attention from politics". Scopelliti has announced to have sent to the Read Prime Minister, to the Alfano deputy prime minister and the competent ministers a letter "in order to speed up and to make to comprise - it has explained - than the acknowledgment of Special the Economic Zone, currently to the debate in the commission to the Senate, is useful and functional in order to print a carried out one for the harbour port of call and all the regional territory. The truth will serve to open the port to all that encircles it, creating important opportunities for the local and international entrepreneurs who by virtue of the detail status offered from the Zes will be able to orient their investments and their initiatives. With this perspective and strong of growing that up to here we have recorded, with 800 thousand teus in more regarding 2011 in spite of the crisis - it has concluded Scopelliti - there are all the conditions in order to imagine a meaningful scaling also in the future. We have, moreover, constructed a strong institutional interlocuzione with the terminalista and opened it confronts to international level with the representatives of the great companies of navigation, like MSC, with meaningful replies in terms of credibility".

the president of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro has found that "these results are effect of a series of intense activities financed from the Region, with the Agreement of Program Picture for 80 million euros total, that they have allowed with the port to accommodate also the ships of new generation. By now - Giovanni Grimaldi has remembered - Joy has three kilometers of dock that are less 16 and less 18 and can accommodate, so like happened some month ago, at the same time three ships from 14 thousand teus. Positive - it has emphasized Grimaldi - also the leap forward, of 70%, handling of the field car, an increase moment that coincides also with the lowering of the absenteeism, which dropped from 18% to 4%, an absolutely physiological data, with increases of the productivity from 23 teus worked in an hour some year makes, to current the 30-35".

While yesterday the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro has emitted a decree with which the delay of relative Regolamento to the reduction of the taxes of anchorage for the ships is confirmed to the period from 1° the July to 31 December of this year that scale the ports of territorial administrative division of the agency.