Trieste consolidates own status of first oil port of the Mediterranean


This morning Marina Monassi, president of the Harbour Authority of Trieste, and Ulrike Andres, president of the Group TAL, transboundary consortium that manages the more important European oil pipe-line and of which the Italian Society for Transalpine Oil pipe-line (SIOT) of Trieste takes part, company of which Andres he is managing director, has evidenced like in the 2013 Trieste has confirmed first oil port of the Mediterranean and like last year SIOT it has established own historical record of handling of the oil crude oil with the drainage to the Marino Terminal of the company in the giuliano port of call of 41,3 million tons of crude from 502 ships, activity that sopravanza considerably that realized in the 2012 that has recorded the drainage of 35,0 million tons from 409 ships. By 13 April 1967, date of the first drainage of oil in the landing place, today is berthed to the Terminal 17,461 oil tankers for a total of 1.288.710.530 tons of crude oil.

the increase of the traffics - they have explained - has had to greater supplying of the refinery of Karlsruhe mainly, one of largest of Germany, than now it is resupplied exclusively by the port of Trieste through the Transalpine Oil pipe-line. Moreover an increment of the oil supply is recorded crude oil to the Czech Republic that, with the income of Mere the state company in the social order of the Group SUCH acquiring 5% of the share capital of the societies of the group, has intentional to guarantee safety of energetic supplying in alternative to the coming crude oil from Russia.

Monassi and Andres have emphasized as this important choice has been a possible yield sure from the competitiveness and the reliability of the Group SUCH but also thanks to the efficiency of the triestine port of call and from its regime of frank point that allows with the operators to enjoy important benefits, as for example the payment of the custom duties delayed to six months to a reduced interest rate.

"This increase - it has found Ulrike Andres - is the result of an intense collaboration and a sinergica action with the Harbour Authority of Trieste who has carried to the acquisition of meaningful volumes of traffic, strengthening the competitive advantage of the port of Trieste". "To operate in the respect of the atmosphere and with the attention for safety - it has added - it represents from always an absolute priority for our company that it continuously invests in the innovation, in the more advanced technologies and in the improvement of the systems to the aim to guarantee of maximum technological levels. The equipments antipollution of the Marino Terminal lead the way in the systems of safety in harbour within".

Marina Monassi has rimarcato as the increase of the main enlivened volumes of traffic in 2013 from the port(of 20 January 2014) is "the result of managerial politics of management of the port of call in tightened contact with the requirements of the operators. Own for such reason - it has explained - we are working on works of adaptation and improvement of the terminals in order to allow ulterior positive performances. Also on the front cruises we are near the terminal and to Costa Crociere managing the bases for the participation of potenziamento of the dock for the ongoing berthing of ships from cruise give beyond 2.000 passengers".

In the course of the encounter is evidenced also the opportunities offered from Russia as a result of the visit of State that Russian president Vladimir Putin has carried out 26 November slid to Trieste in order to meet the Italian prime Minister Enrico Letta. 23 January these opportunities of investment and traffic are discussed to Moscow with Banca Intesa Russia, interested to know all the economic opportunities that the port of Trieste is able to offer to the Russian enterprises, there included the advantages deriving from the international regime of Carriage free which it enjoys almost the totality the harbour territory. The successive day, near the office of Moscow of the ICE (Agency for the promotion abroad and the internationalization of the Italian enterprises), has carried out an encounter between the director of the same Agency and an Italian delegation of Trieste composed from the president and the general secretary of the Harbour Authority, with some they civil employees, let alone from the managing director of the logistic society Alpe Adria Spa of the giuliano chief town, from president of the A.N.Te.P of Trieste (Harbour National Associazione of the Terminalisti), in quality also of president of the terminal containers (Trieste Marine Terminal Spa). The members of the delegation have illustrated the potentialities and the opportunities of attivabili development and investment from quickly in the port of Trieste.