The Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea As part of Investment 2.1 of the PNRR, Meridionale has obtained: funded by the European Union, a grant of €6.2 million to implement the development of logistics for the agri-food, fisheries and aquaculture, forestry, floriculture and Nursery. The port authority had participated in the call for tenders by submitting a project proposal aimed at establishing services with a specific vocation to support the product sector and in the ports of Brindisi and Bari. The PSA explained whereas, from an analysis carried out by the institution, it had emerged that despite the social importance and impact on the economic impact determined by the agriculture and fisheries sectors, in the ports managed by the PSA, there is in fact no adequate presence of services aimed at improving the efficiency of logistics targeted at these sectors.

For the port of Brindisi, the proposal has been submitted re-functionalisation of spaces within a ownership of the PSA, the structure within which the Specific features and services will be introduced to improve agri-food logistics. The terminal will also be subjected to a series of functional improvement interventions, formal and energetic.

The project envisages, among other things, the construction, in the ports of Brindisi and Bari, of rest areas equipped with services specific in favour of the agri-food sector, with particular reference to the the needs of refrigerated means of transport.

Generators will also be installed in both ports wind turbines for the production of electricity, for a rated total of 500 Kilowatt peak, so as to ensure the energy supply of the system to support the logistics and agri-food from renewable sources.