Started the second phase of the contest for the new intermodal terminal of the port of Gioia Tauro



The Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro has published the relative ban of contest to the planning, execution and management of the new intermodal terminal of the calabrian harbour port of call. The agency has announced that as a result of the first phase of contest that has seen the single Sogemar Spa - society that is under responsibility of Contship Italy, the group that through the Medcenter branch Container Terminal (MCT) manages the container terminal of the port of Gioia Tauro - to introduce own written up preliminary project as from public ban on the base of the indications demanded from the study of feasibility arranged from the technical department of the Harbour Authority, now start is given to according to step aerobic. In this second phase the presentation in contest is demanded, within on October 30, 2015 to hours 12, of the offer economically more favorable than a written up definitive project on the base of the indications placed in being in the preliminary project, based on previewed how much from the procedure of project financing.

The harbour agency has emphasized that the new intermodal terminal will be a complementary strategic infrastructure to the activity of transhipment of the container carried out from the port and will have the task to intercept to intercept those traffics enlivened between the Far East currently managed and Europe from the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp. The objective, with the realization of the intermodal terminal, is to make of Gioia Tauro a communitarian intermodal passage inserted in the transeuropeo axis of the Helsinki corridor - the TV assistant, as node of national importance and European crossroads of various modalities of transport.

The harbour authority has found that the potential market of reference of the new terminal is gone around around to a container volume pairs to 1.028.768 teu and has evidenced that between the positive results that this investment will be able to offer to the territory there are the occupational perspectives that are gone around around the 139 occupied in 10 years, in order then to reach 338 in next the twenty.

Organized based on the modalities of the project financing, the contract re-enters between the works previewed from the Triennial Operations plan of the Harbour Authority and has a total financing of 40 million euros. Of these, 20 million euros, as public contribution, are at the expense of the Harbour Authority of Gioia Tauro, deriving from the PON Nets and Mobility 2007-2013, while other 20 million euros will have to be invested from the private subject.

The new intermodal terminal will be extended in the territory comprised between the Municipalities of Gioia Tauro and San Ferdinando. It will be developed, partially, inside of the port, in the customs area in concession to the terminalista Medcenter Terminal Container and in the zone of the interporto. It will occupy a surface pairs to 325 thousand square metres and will have a total length of new railroads of 3.825 meters, of which 2,761 meters in area terminal containers and of 1.064 meters in the intermodal terminal. The railway connection to the sheds in order to allow the cargo and drainage of cars with its inside and the insertion in the three existing railroads of shunters is previewed, in way such to be profitable independent uses it of the single railroads.

The new work will have to be realized within 18 months from the minutes of delivery of the work and the subject highest bidder will have a concession of thirty-year duration. Between the demanded strategic elements for the good management of the terminal the centralization of the railway operations is previewed that will be entrusted to an only manager, exactly that private one that will adjudicate the contest, that it could also coordinate the feature of connection between San Ferdinando and the port with national the railway net.