The port of Gioia Tauro has closed 2023 with a new historical record of container traffic having handled a volume of 3,548,827 TEUs, representing an increase of +5.0% year-on-year and an increase of 81,055 TEUs compared to the previous year. previous peak marked in 2008. Announcing the new record, the Chairman of the Port System of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, Andrea Agostinelli, wanted to congratulate the company shipowner MSC, whose vessels generate the largest share of the traffic handled by the Calabrian port, with Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), the company that manages the container terminal of the airport and which is part of the Terminal Investment network Limited, which is owned by MSC itself, and has expressed "Heartfelt appreciation for the port workers, who - underlined Agostinelli - they are our flagship, to which the credit goes to have worked with a spirit of attachment and self-denial, so that the port would cross this coveted finish line."