Today in the port of Gioia Tauro the western quay which - recalled the President of the Authority of Port System of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, Andrea Agostinelli, during the ceremony - "will host a ship repair centre which will mean not only a economies of scale for the owners who choose this quay, but also and above all new jobs in the engineering sector in carpentry, in plant engineering".

Highlighting the strategic importance of the new quay aimed at ensuring the diversification of port services, and then the further development of the Calabrian port, Agostinelli underlined that with today's inauguration it has been «The infrastructure of the docks of the port, and this - he specified - was a goal that we had set at the beginning of my mandate, a promise that today we maintain, also because the preliminary investigation for the new moorings on the northern quay in concession to Automar is proceeding quickly, as a procedure can be sent in the suffocating bureaucracy of our country".

Agostinelli also remarked that "the port of Gioia Taurus is in continuous, amazing growth and will touch the four million TEUs and 300,000 vehicles handled in the current year. I dare say - he concluded - in absolute European countertrend".