In the 2018 traffic of the goods in the port of Taranto it is diminished of -5,6%



Last year the traffic of the goods enlivened from the port of Taranto is diminished of the -5,6% being piled to 20,4 million tons regarding 21,6 million tons in 2017, of which almost 12,0 million tons of cargos to disembarkation (- 5.1%) and 8,5 million tons to the boarding (- 6.4%).

Altogether the solid bulk has been pairs to 15,5 million tons, with an increase of +3.1% on 2017, while the liquid bulk is dropped of -17,7% to the 3,8 million one tons and in conventional bending they have turned out also the goods that has been attested to beyond 4,9 million tons (- 13.3%).

Relatively to the bulk, the Authority of Harbour System of the Ionian Sea has specified that the course of the industrial production affects in meaningful way harbour handling of bulk and in particular to Taranto, whose activity closely is tied to those of the iron and steel pole and the ENI refinery, that they are the main customers of the port. The ionic port of call - it has specified the authority - has benefitted in particular of the increment of embarks of solid bulk that they have marked, with about 1,5 million tons, +19.2% on 2017; also it disembarks to it with 10,3 million have recorded an increase of +1.2%. The stabilization of the situation of the industry iron worker, after the last difficult years for notes judicial and environmental events - it has evidenced the harbour agency - has contributed to achieve these results. The activity generated from the management of the former systems Ilva to work of the Arcelor Mittal Italia, is wished can contribute to throw again Taranto in this segment ulteriorly.

The AdSP has explained moreover that the bending of the liquid bulk, with the contraction of disembarks with 1,1 million tons in 2018 against 1,8 million the year precedence (- 39.4%) and of slightly embark with 2,7 million more low of 2017 (- 3.3%), reflects the reduction of the import marine of the ENI refinery that is using the coming crude oil from the Basilicata.

About the segment of the container, field that has stopped the activity between the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2017 as a result of beeing exhausted of the operations of the terminalista society Taranto Container Terminal (TCT) that it has carried to the revocation of the concession and to gives back to september 2015 of the area of the Polisettoriale Pier to the harbour authority, the AdSP has emphasized that with the recent release of the concession of the Polisettoriale Pier to the holding Yilport Turk(on November 20, 2018 and on 21 February 2019), thirteenth world-wide terminalista operator and better total harbour operator for 2018, opens new and perspective important of increase of the field. The AdSP has specified that "the relative project to the Polisettoriale Pier of the port of Taranto previews an important strategic positioning of the terminal in the central Mediterranean with the gradual attainment of meaningful traffics".

The AdSP has evidenced also the good perspectives offered also from by now the next effective start of the Multi region Special Economic Zone, that it sees included also the Basilicata, that will be able to attract to new industrial and manifacturing activities that will have to make use of the port for own import-export and will give ulterior overhong to the activities of the ionic port of call.

As for the section fleeting, that it has closed 2018 with a traffic of 658 passengers in transit (- 92.3%), the authority has announced that for the 2019 a new increase thanks to the return near the ionic port of call of the ships of Marella Cruises and other companies is previewed.

"The port of Taranto - the president of the AdSP has commented, Sergio Prete - is gradually exceeding the deep crisis of the last years due to several factors, between which the problematic notes of the industrial section and the closing of the terminal containers. Already beginning from the end last year the first signs of resumption have been perceived. The concrete start of all the initiatives put in field and of the programmed activities will allow a gradual but important resumption that it will be able to lead the port of call to an exponential increase, is in terms of traffics and occupation but also of diversification, innovation and environmental sustainability. Yilport, ZES, Arcelor Mittal, the Innovation Hub, Logistic Platform, Falanto Service Port Center, are only some of the Pillars on which we are working in order to guarantee to Taranto the strategic positioning that it deserves in the Mediterranean".