Holding the Yilport Turk has introduced request in order to manage the entire Polisettoriale Pier of the port of Taranto



The terminalista society Holding Yilport, that integrally it is controlled by the Turkish group Holding Yildirim, has introduced request in order to manage the entire Polisettoriale Pier of the port of Taranto, area on which until 2014 the container was installed terminal managed from the Taranto Container Terminal (TCT) that it had formally given back it to the Harbour Authority to september 2015 when from months by now was stopped the activity of handling of the containers. From then the Polisettoriale Pier, meantime object of participations of restructure and modernization, has remained waiting for a new concessionaire and interest to manage portions of the area is introduced by various subjects, between which the Consortium Ulisse (Ionian Shipping Consortium, Taranto Initiatives Produttive and Tecnomec Engineering), the Consortium Southgate Europe Terminal Zeta System and Taranto Productive Initiatives), South Marine Gate (Castile, Harbour Company, Malucla and Quadrato Division Industry), Taras Terminal and Interminal.

The proposal sent from the Turkish society to the Authority of Harbour System of the Ionian Sea (former Harbour Authority of Taranto) has for object the occupation and the use total of the entire harbour compendium of the Polisettoriale Pier, with exception of the Descent 5 and rear areas, let alone the use of the equipments and/or the installations currently you anticipate. Announcing to have received the request tuesday, the AdSP has remembered that Holding Yilport, beyond to being currently thirteenth harbour terminalistico operator world-wise, is of entire property of the Holding Yildirim that in its turn is owner of 24% of the capital of the French shipowning group of CGM that is the third marine carrier of the world in the field of the containers.

The AdSP has specified that scope of the question of the Holding Yilport is the development of the commercial traffics and the logistics, with particular reference to handling of the container, of goods varied and ro-ro, with advanced attended progressive volumes to those allowed from the maximum ability to the Polisettoriale Pier. In particular the society has declared that "the increment of the volumes will be supported through meaningful investments on the economic plan/financial, with important repercussions under the occupational profile".

The harbour agency has announced that yesterday, as a result of the request reached from the Turkish society, the Committee of management of the AdSP of the Ionian Sea has deliberated the suspension of the procedure of confronts started with the instrument of the competitive dialogue on the precedence requests until the outcome of the activity of verification by the AdSP of the question of release of the concession introduced from the Holding Yilport for the next adoption of finalized provisions on the perseguimento of the public interest.

Holding Yildirim has constituted the Holding Yilport in 2011 in order to make you to meet all the harbour activities managed by the Turkish group that has made its income in the harbour segment in 2004. Currently Yilport manages 20 harbour terminals, of which five in Turkey, seven in Portugal, two in Sweden, two in Spain, in Norway, one to Malta, in Peru and in Ecuador. To these five ports join dry in Turkey.

Last year the terminals of the Turkish company had a containerized trade ability pairs to 10 million teu, of traffic of solid bulk pairs to 22 million tons and of liquid bulk pairs to 2,15 million cubic metres, while in the section of rotabili cargos the ability was pairs to a million ceu. In the 2017 containerized trade enlivened from the terminals of Yilport it has been pairs to 4,3 million teu (+9.5% on 2016), to which they join almost 1,6 million teu enlivened from the Maltese terminal Malta Freeport of which Yilport it stops 50% of the capital.