Gioia Tauro
The Port of Gioia Tauro is a large seaport in southwest Italy and the largest port in Italy for container throughput. Gioia Tauro is a comune in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria, on the Tyrrhenian coast. It has an important port, situated along the route connecting Suez to Gibraltar, one of the busiest maritime corridors in the world. The port is managed by Autorità di Sistema Portuale dei Mari Tirreno Meridionale e Ionio (AdSP – Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas) which also manages the smaller ports of Corigliano, Crotone, Palmi and Vibo Valentia.
Gioia Tauro port officially welcomes the new terminal operator
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) June 9, 2019 – Swiss-based MSC – Mediterranean Shipping Company, the new terminal operator of the port of Gioia...
Gioia Tauro port awards €2.5 million maintenance dredging contract
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) June 3, 2019 – Gioia Tauro port has awarded a €2.5 million ($2.8 million) three-year maintenance...
Italy to entrust Gioia Tauro port management to extraordinary commissioner
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) May 21, 2019 – Gioia Tauro port’s management needs to be assumed by an extraordinary commissioner who...
Gioia Tauro optimistic with start of port developments
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – Gioia Tauro Port Authority commissioner, Andrea Agostinelli, has reported a number of developments which...
Kalmar to supply 32 diesel-electric straddle carriers to Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) April 30, 2019 – Kalmar, part of Cargotec, is to supply a total of 32 diesel-electric straddle carriers to...
Eurogate announces 2018 results; Mediterranean terminal performance
Bremen, Germany (Ports Europe) April 5, 2019 – The EUROGATE Group has announced results for the financial year 2018. The group generated a net...
Italy’s Filt Cgil welcomes agreement on Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) April 4, 2019 – Italian trade union Filt Cgil has welcomed the agreement reached between Contship Italia S.p.A. and...
Bank of Tokyo Italy director visits Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – The director of the Italian branch of Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd, Kaneyuki Iseda, accompanied by...
Calabria’s Gioia Tauro port misses a role in the new Silk Road
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – President of the Calabria Region Mario Oliveiro has written to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte,...
Reggio Calabria entrepreneurs place bid to acquire stake in Gioia Tauro’s MCT
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 18, 2019 – A group of entrepreneurs from Reggio Calabria presented a formal offer to buy shares of Medcenter...
Contship in talks to sell 50% in Gioia Tauro port’s container terminal operator
Press Release – Contship Italia S.p.A. has entered into negotiations for sale of MCT – March 15, 2019 Contship Italia S.p.A. has entered into...
Italy suspends process for termination of Contship’s Gioia Tauro port concession
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Italy’s Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport (MIT) has received a list of commitments by Gioia...
MSC to update service linking Mediterranean to Australia
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) March 7, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) plans to update its service between Australia, the Indian...
Gioia Tauro port launches proceedings for termination of MCT concession
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 28, 2019 – Gioia Tauro port has communicated to the shareholders of the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT)...
Italy to deliver formal notice to MCT for breaches in Gioia Tauro port concession
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Italy’s government plans to shortly send a formal notice to Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT)...
Gioia Tauro port workers end blockade as MSC guarantees investments
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 22, 2019 – Workers at Gioia Tauro port have removed the blockade of the harbour they launched on February 13...
Eurogate’s traffic in Italy declines in 2018, dragged by Cagliari, Gioia Tauro ports transshipment
Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) February 12, 2019 – Germany’s Eurogate Group has reported a 6% decline in the handling of cargo traffic in Italy, with...