Automar, the company owned by Bertani, Grimaldi and Mercurio, which operates the terminal for motor vehicle traffic in the port of Gioia Tauro, has activated a new railway service that connects the company's offices in Pontecagnano (Salerno) and Gioia Taurus and transporting domestically produced passenger cars destined for to be exported from the Calabrian port of call or vehicles that from the port will be sent to Pontecagnano to be sorted into direction of final destinations. There are about ten trains scheduled per week.

In 2023, Automar recorded a growth of more than +50% in port traffic, with rail handling organised in 256 trains arriving (38,498 cars carried) and 12 trains in departure (2,182 cars transported), with a forecast for 2024 a further +50% increase in rail traffic.