In the port of Gioia Tauro, the works have been completed of a total value of 2.7 million euros for the construction of the new multifunctional border control structure PCF - PED/PDI point, which will allow the centrality of the Checks of goods and related analyses in a single area within the port of call. According to the provisions of the legislation in force on the subject, the control activity animals and food goods entering the territory of the European Union is entrusted to the health service within the peripheral structures of the Ministry of Health and, in order to provide the Calabrian port with an activity essential and to facilitate the organisation of the relevant inspections of the laboratory, the Port System Authority of the Seas Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian has centralized in a single structure the performance of the analysis and control operations of the goods in order to prevent any contamination or the introduction to the consumption of products that are not hygienically up to standard.

Located in an area of 4,000 square meters, the structure is organized in three sheds divided into 34 prefabricated modules. Of these, twenty-two will be dedicated to the service of the post of border control PCF, a further six modules will be used for Activities of the Regional Phytosanitary Service, three to the Customs and Monopolies Agency and three others to the service of the Guardia di Finanza.