In the 2018 port of Salerno it could exceed the threshold of 500 thousand for the first time container enlivened



in a year. It has evidenced Salerno Container Terminal (SCT), the society of the Gallozzi group that manages the terminal for containers to the Pier Trapeze of the port Salerno province, announcing that in the first period of two months of this year it has recorded an increase of +10% of the containerized trade regarding the same period of 2017, year that has been concluded for Salerno with a total of 455 thousand teu and an increase of +17.0% on the year precedence I yield of an abrupt acceleration in the advanced second half of the year to +23%(on 19 February 2018).

The terminal of SCT records an average of 25 touched ship to the week and in the first days of this year it has added to the ports of call of a new direct service every weekly magazine of Hamburg Süd-Maersk between of the Campania port and the Caribbean marine ports of call of the Central America, that it will allow in 17 days to connect the ports of Cartagena (Colombia), Puerto Moin (Costa Rica) and Manzanillo (Panama hat) through the hub of Algeciras that connects the export of Salerno with the total Network of the line.

The terminalista society has specified that the wait prosecuzione of the increase trend will be returned possible also by the infrastructural work in existence: concluded the first phase of participation to the backdrops, with a depth of about -13 meters for a length of 320 meters to the mooring, which it will follow a second phase in home stretch with ulterior deepenings. Moreover - it has specified SCT - within the year the work of increase of the mouth of the port will be completed, so from being able to fully take advantage of the possibility to moor ships very greater dimensions to the docks of the terminal, long each 380 meters.

To this the potenziamento of means of SCT will join on hand that in the next few months will put in service a second crane of high Liebherr dock about 51 meters with a sbraccio of 60 meters, while a third crane, most likely of greater dimensions, is previewed to enter in exercise around the end of 2018. Moreover within this year the doubling of the areas of inland terminal SCT2 is previewed, that it is placed to the escape of Castel San Giorgio on the Salerno-Caserta-Rome freeway and that is able to assure ulterior margins of increase to the areas of the port.