The industrial plan of Yilport for the Polisettoriale Pier of Taranto previews the doubling of the traffic ability container



The terminalista group Turkish Holding Yilport has expressed intention the intention to double the ability to annual handling of the containers of the Polisettoriale Pier of the port of Taranto, than in the past weeks it has been candidated to manage introducing a request to the Authority of Harbour System of the Ionian Sea that in recent days has obtained a first green light by the Italian harbour agency(of 5 and 31 July 2018).

The Turkish group in fact has announced that if had to obtain in management the Taranto Container Terminal, denomination with which the terminalistica activity to the Polisettoriale Pier it is exercised until summer 2015 by the homonymous participated society by the groups Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), Evergreen Marine Corporation and Maneschi, would have the intention of increase the ability to the landing place, than currently two million teu are of about, elevating it to beyond four million teu per year with investments realized in the arc of next the ten years in infrastructures, equipments and technology beginning from the installation of crane ship-to-Shore, from the acquisition of large square crane and from the introduction of operating system Navis.

With the Yilport request it has asked the marine state property concession for the Polisettoriale Pier for the duration 49-year-old the aim to obtain the management of 1.800 linear meters of dock and a million square metres superficial that would constitute the first operated harbour landing place from the Turkish group in Italy.

The president of Holding Yilpofrt, Robert Yuksel Yildirim, has announced that the society is programming encounters to Taranto with local authorities, the unions, the logistic societies and the companies of import/export, with particular attention to those of the agricultural and food- field. Yildirim has specified that in the course of the Yilport encounters it will illustrate own industrial plan for Taranto and the initiatives times to improve the terminal is as landing place gateway that as hub of transhipment. The president of the Turkish company has specified that soon talks with the main total companies of navigation will be started also and with the marine carriers feeder in order to assure their engagement in confronts of the port of Taranto. "We consider - it has emphasized - than within the 2025 Taranto Container Terminal will be one of the best terminals in Italy".