The Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Seas Southern and Ionian has announced that the Superior Council of the Public Works has approved the functional technical adaptation to the Master plan of the port of Gioia Tauro aimed at renovation of the quay in section E and the construction of a mooring tooth along the quay on the north side serving the Ro-Ro and Ro-Pax vessels. The port authority specified that within the of the ATF have been defined as a number of non-substantial changes which, by their nature, they do not involve a "variation" to the Plan Port Regulator but which affect the pursuit of specific objectives, in order to increase the competitiveness of the port of Gioia Tauro adapting it to the new market demands, the new navigation needs and the changing size of the fleet global. In particular, the PSA specified, the intervention was carried out in made necessary because, at present, the quay intended for the At the docking of the Ro-Ro ships it is equipped with three chutes of 25 meters in length that are no longer suitable for the dimensions of the latest generation of ro-ro and ro-pax ships calling at the port calabrian.

The work will therefore aim to adapt the size of the slides placed along the quay, serving the doors of the from the current 25 to 35 metres in order to facilitate the loading and disembarking of cars. At the same time, a new mooring tooth will be built with an open quay founded on poles 35 meters long.