Italy
Italy is a republic in southern Europe, comprising a peninsula south of the Alps, and Sicily, Sardinia, Elba, and other smaller islands; member of the European Union (EU); by tonnage, its leading ports are Trieste, Genoa and Gioia Tauro. In September 2016, the government reorganised the port system into 16 new port system authorities (AdSP – Autorità di Sistema Portuale). The 57 ports of national importance are coordinated by 16 AdSPs with the task of planning, coordinating and regulating the port system in the reference area. The AdSPs are members of the Italian port association – Assoporti.
Trieste port president to present services on conference at Italy’s Embassy to Austria
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 24, 2017 – The president of Trieste port, Zeno D’Agostino, plans to take part in an event to present the...
First train on TEN-T Adriatic-Baltic corridor to depart from Trieste port on Jan 25
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 23, 2017 – The first intermodal train scheduled on the Kiel-Gothenburg route will travel from Trieste port...
Court orders Genoa port to change way of granting access to dry docks
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 19, 2017 – Genoa port authority will have to reconsider the access of operators to dry docks. This was ruled by the...
Minoan replaces Trieste with Venice in ferry route connecting Ancona to Greece
Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) January 19, 2017 – Minoan Grimaldi Lines has changed the route of its ferry line connecting Ancona to the Greek ports of...
Livorno port launches intermodal terminal
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – With a total investment of around €40 million ($42.3 million), Livorno port has opened a new...
Event – Trieste – Your Rail Port in the heart of Europe
Vienna, Austria (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – On January 26 a conference entitled “Trieste – Your Rail Port in the heart of Europe” will...
Trieste Marine Terminal increases container throughput in 2016
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Trieste Marine Terminal S.p.A. ended 2016 with a container throughput of 449,481 TEU, up 1.6% on 2015,...
Cagliari port to handle 400,000 cruise passengers in 2017
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Cagliari port expects to handle 400,000 cruise passengers in 2017, versus 260,000 last year. The...
GPH acquires controlling stake in Cagliari Cruise Terminal
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 18, 2017 – Global Ports Holding (GPH), a world leader in the cruise sector, has acquired a controlling stake in...
Enel to operate coal-fired power plant at Genoa port for few months in 2017
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Italian power utility Enel Spa has announced that it can reopen the coal-fired power plant at Genoa port...
Svimez calls for launch of special economic zones at Gioia Tauro, Taranto ports
Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Italian association for the economic development of southern Italy, Associazione per lo sviluppo...
Civitavecchia port president meets EC representatives
Civitavecchia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – The President of the Port System of the Centre-North Tyrrhenian Sea, Francesco Maria di Majo, was...
Cagliari port, Apcoa to install car battery charging points
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Cagliari port has started a joint project with Italian parking lot operator Apcoa Parking Italia S.p.A....
Italian police investigate vehicle imports to jihadist cells via Genoa port
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – Italian Finance Police has started investigations into a possible channel for the import of vehicles to...
Italian ports boost recovery of container traffic in Mediterranean region
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) January 17, 2017 – For once the ports of northern Europe are not the best on the continent, the ones that drive the...
Liguria Court dismisses appeals against La Spezia infrastructure projects
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 16, 2017 – Liguria region’s Administrative Court has considered “unfounded” the request by...
Event – La Spezia port to attend Berlin Fruit Logistica
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) January 10, 2017 – The Port of La Spezia will attend Fruit Logistica exhibition in Berlin February 8-10, 2017, as part of...