MILAN, Oct. 14 (Class Editori) - For the Port of Gioia Tauro "a relaunch phase has begun". The announcement was made by Andrea Agostinelli, Extraordinary Commissioner of the Calabrian Authority, during his speech at the third edition of the Belt and Road Initiative forum organized by the Class Editori Group in collaboration with Xinhua News Agency. "We have a ten-year crisis behind us, with a drop in traffic and investments that is unbelievable. In 2019, the relaunch phase began thanks to a company linked to an international shipowner, coming from China," he added.
Last May, the Sixin MSC joined the infrastructure. It is one of the largest container carriers in the world, the largest one ever docked at the Calabrian port and within the Italian port circuit. A sea giant, 400 meters long and 61 meters wide, built in 2019 and flying the Panamanian flag, with a transport capacity of 26,656 TEU. Gioia Tauro has thus become one of the strategic pivots to and from the Far East.
"Gioia Tauro does not compete with national ports; our reference market is international, namely Port Said, Piraeus, Malta, Algeciras, Barcelona. They are different markets, which play with different rules and we must be at the forefront," Paolo Maccarini, director of Terminal Investment Limited, the terminal arm of MSC, has reiterated, by recalling the commitment of the group's leader: "Aponte said that our goal is to make Gioia Tauro the first port of the Mediterranean."
The MSC transoceanic lines "are very important and we are proud of hosting these huge container carrier ships in our docks", as Agostinelli has explained, "in a moment of COVID- crisis we are one of the few international ports which has seen traffics increasing by 30%".
In addition, the President of the Port system Authority of the East Adriatic Sea- Zeno D'Agostino- has taken the floor. The very existence of the Authority is allowing us, through our subsidiaries, to create value and employment. This, as D'Agostino has continued, "has also determined a dialogue capacity with the world, which is much different from that of other competitors, other Italian ports and how we were until some years ago".
In the last weeks, the German HHLA (HHLA- Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG), one of the main European operators of logistics, has signed an agreement to become, by a year, a majority shareholder with 50.1% of PLT, the logistics platform of Trieste basin, one of the largest maritime works built in Italy in the last 10 years, which will be inaugurated today in the capital of Friuli Venezia Giulia, at the presence of the Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Stefano Patuanelli and Angela Titzrath, CEO of HHLA.
In addition, also two Chinese groups of infrastructures and logistics, China Communication Construction Company and China Merchant, are interested to the possibility of having an operating base in the port - without concluding, at the moment -, attracted by the favourable port logistics and in particular by its rail connectionwith the markets of Central Europe.
(Source:Class Editori)
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