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Last year the traffic of the goods in the port of Taranto is diminished of -19,0%
the cargos to the disembarkation are piled to 13,1 million tons (- 19.9%) and those to the boarding to 9,5 million tons (- 17.7%)
February 16, 2016
Last year the port of Taranto has accused an emphasized bending of the -19,0% of the traffic that is dropped to 22,6 million tons regarding 27,8 million tons enlivened in 2014. The only volume in increase has turned out that of the liquid bulk, that it is piled to 6,0 million tons (+45.9%). The bulk sand banks instead has recorded a decrease of the -27,0% and is come down to 11,7 million tons. Important also the contraction of the goods several that has attested to 4,8 million tons (- 37.3%), of which 4,7 million conventional tons of goods (- 22.0%) and 151 thousand tons of goods in container (- 91.1%), traffic that give March 2015 is annulled as a result of the cessation of the activity of the Taranto Container Terminal (TCT) on the area of the Polisettoriale Pier, dock that now the Harbour Authority of Taranto confides to assign to other terminaliste societies through a ban of international contest in publication on the Gazette of the European Union ( on 15 February 2016).
In the 2015 the goods to the disembarkation in the apulian port pairs to 13,1 million tons (- 19.9%) and those to the boarding to 9,5 million tons (- 17.7% have been).
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