In the 2019 port of Gioia Tauro it has enlivened beyond 2,5 million container (+8.4%)



In the 2019 port of Gioia Tauro it has enlivened a containerized trade pairs to 2.522.874 teu, with an increment of +8.4% on the year precedence. Evidencing that the increase follows two annuity of negative conjuncture and is achieved in spite of the crisis of the traffics recorded in the first trimester of the 2019 that is culminated with a longest strike of nine days on the harbour docks, the Harbour Authority of the calabrian port of call has emphasized that the resumption is yields of politics of throws again and of requalification of the harbour infrastructure put in field from the agency in synergy with new management of Medcenter Container Terminal (MSC), the society that manages the container terminal of the port that last April is passed under the entire control of the Terminal Investment Limited (TIL) of the group shipowning Helvetian Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC)(on 1° April 2019),

The harbour authority has rimarcato moreover that the volume of traffic enlivened from the calabrian port in the 2019 Gioia Tauro reaffirmation which first hub nation in the field of the transhipment, with a course of the traffic which placed on positive results, consolidated by now from various months, in constant increase already from last April. The agency has specified that to I throw again of the port of call has contributed to the full operativity of the investments of the terminalista through an imposing project of renewal of the equipment in a position to answering to always put up requirements of market, that they demand celerity in the operations of transfer and positioning of the container in dock, and the completion of the work of rifacimento of the large squares and the ways of race in order to assure quick mobility of the cranes of dock and mechanical means of handling of the container, being guaranteed also full safety of the job.

Moreover the agency has remembered that, inserted in the same distance of I throw again of the entire infrastructure harbour and to the aim to maintain to the national supremacy of the depth of the backdrops of the harbour channel (pairs to -18 meters), the Harbour Authority has started a triennial program of work of ordinary maintenance of the harbour backdrops for an expense of 3,5 million euros and that, in order to complete the full functionality of the terminal, in the biennium the 2020-2022 agency will realize an investment of beyond eight million euro destined to finance the work of reorganization of dock of the features To and B and the structural adaptation of the paving infeature C with the objective to increase of its total lift.

The authority has evidenced that to giving man hard to the recorded new trend to Gioia Tauro they have been also the attache's to the port of call who, thanks to theirs recognized professionality, have recovered the necessary productivity, with an hour working that has grown of +2.8% on the ships mothers and of +3% on the ships feeder.

"We attend 2020 - the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority has commented, Andrea Agostinelli - in order to certify a suit I throw again of the harbour traffics, that it has already given its yields until from the second half of the year of 2019. Now every effort of the Harbour Authority will go profuse in the realization of the railway connections with the national net and in the valorization of the railway gateway, by now realized. Of all this we have had positive replies from minister De Micheli, and about this we will speak with the candidates to the next regional elections in the next few days".