Budget of the first year of the marine service feeder between the ports of Vasto and Trieste



In a year the service of the Danish Maersk Line who with ships feeder connects the Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) of the port of Trieste with the port of Tip Pen of Vasto has realized about 30 landings place to from Abruzzo port. The new line, that it is activated in February last year ( of 11 February 2013), it has developed a traffic of about 1.700 teu for a value of goods invoiced in export-import of about 5,1 million euros besides a turnover of harbour services (towing, pilot, agencies, harbour enterprise, conveyors) of about 500 thousand euros. Chieti Confindustria has announced specifying that currently the port of Vasto enlivens than 500 thousand tons more than goods is helter-skelter that in container.

The association of the manufacturers, remembering that the new marine service allows - through the ships mother that leave from Trieste - to reach destinations in the Mediterranean oriental, Middle East, Indian subcontinent and To make East, has emphasized that the companies customers and the harbour companies of Vasto head very at this service as, because of the lack in Abruzzi of ports equipped for the traffic container the ports of call of Naples, Salerno Ancona and Bari had to be used necessarily. "The minor distance with the port of boarding or disembarkation - she has found Chieti Confindustria - generates, beyond to a positive consequent environmental impact to the minor traffic on rubber, an economy on the street transport of about 300 euros to container: an important saving for the companies of the territory".

Next 19 February near the delegation of Val di Sangro di Confindustria will hold an encounter with the companies of the territory, the Maersk and the TMT of group T.O. Delta in order to make the point and to program ulterior initiatives in order to still increase and to value more the service.

Chieti confindustria has evidenced that another marine traffic important is constituted by the van realized by the Sevel (European Society Light Vehicles) in the plant in the Val di Sangro on behalf of French group PSA, for a total of about 10 thousand van enlivened that they reach Ukraine, Turkey and Koper. "An other element of pride - it has added the association - is to find that after many years the Pilkington is returned on the port with an important traffic of sand and sodium carbonate, raw materials for the composition of the glass".

Chieti confindustria has rimarcato also the importance of the activity of customs of Vasto, that it is the first in Abruzzi for returns - graces mainly to the activity of the port - and embeds about nine million euro as Vat, about two million euro of custom offices beyond to other several returns for about 500 thousand euros.