the Harbour Authority of Taranto denunciation that Evergreen will start a new service Pireo and Bari rather than to scale the Jonian port



The Harbour Authority of Taranto has announced that beginning from next 20 May the company of navigation Evergreen Line will start a new service called weekly magazine PSI (Piraeus - South Italy) that will connect the port of the Pireo with that of Bari rather than with Taranto, port of call whose terminal for containers is in concession to the Taranto Container Terminal (TCT), company of which Evergreen she is partner through a society of the group. The new service will guarantee also the connection import/export with the oceanic services for the Far East and Intramed for the ports of the Mediterranean.

This - it has denounced the harbour agency of the Jonian port of call - although to the terminal of Taranto, "closed for unilateral choice of the TCT Spa, is about 900 meters of dock not interested from the started work of modernization from the Harbour Authority, besides the free docks of the root of the Polisettoriale Pier and of Descent V".

"Moreover - it has remembered the Harbour Authority - in recent days a Temporary Association of Enterprises of the port of Taranto had formalized to the same Evergreen Line and its agents an offer of handling of the containers near the San Cataldo Pier, succeeding to reach the rate considered attractive based on the indications of the carrier".

The authority harbour of Taranto has complained that "the Evergreen Line, in spite of the engagement of coordination and the offer of ATI Jonian, online with own wished, has decided to activate the service in the port of Bari. The information - it has specified the agency - ready is turned to the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio, for ulterior the opportune appraisals finalized to the decisions in the next few days to assume together with president of the Harbour Authority and/or Harbour Comitato".

The Harbour Authority of Taranto has remembered moreover that frattanto the imminent convocation of the Prime Minister's Office or of the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports for the definition of the relationships with the TCT Spa attends, above all in relation to I renew of the extraordinary Redundancy fund and to the management of the terminal.

While at the beginning of the next month Evergreen Line it will inaugurate another intra-Mediterranean service that will connect some ports of the western basin with ports of call of the Mediterranean oriental through the port of the Pireo. The new line, called West Med - East Med (WEM), will offer to three departures salaries from the ports of Valencia, Castellon, Barcelona, Fos, Cagliari, Pireo, Beirut, Mersin, Iskenderun, Lattakia, Alexandria, Izmir.