The tender for the identification of the companies authorized to provision of temporary port work in managed ports by the Port System Authority of the Adriatic Sea Meridionale ended with the award of this service in the port of Bari to Nazario Sauro Società Cooperative, for an estimated award amount of 45 thousand euro. Amount that is identical for the services carried out in the other three ports of Brindisi, where the activity was awarded to the Nicola and Salvatore Briamo Port Company Cooperative Society, in the port of Manfredonia where the service is contracted out to Coop. Port Services Cardinale Orsini, and in the port of Barletta, where the activity is was assigned to the Barletta Single Port Workers Company Molfetta Trani.

The duration of the service is set at eight years and can be extended of one year.