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.
Calabria president meets unions to review investment progress
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – “The President of the Calabria Region
Mario Oliverio has presided a meeting with...
Call for Messina as its own port system
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) June 6, 2018 – Under recent government port reform, Messina port (Sicily) was included in Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale...
Debora Serracchiani calls for protection of Italian port system from EU tax demand
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) April 19, 2018 – Deputy of the Democratic Party, Debora Serracchiani, has called for the government to protect the...
Relaunch of Italian port system at risk from EU tax claim, Federation says
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) April 19, 2018 – Federazione del mare (Federation of the Sea) has said that recent claims by the EU Competition Authority (DG...
EUROGATE International reports container throughout figures for 2017
Bremen, Germany (Ports Europe) April 12, 2018 – As part of EUROGATE’s figures for the 2017 financial year, container throughput for EUROGATE...
Ranking: Italian ports by TEU traffic in 2017
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) April 8, 2018 – Assoporti, the Italian ports association, has published statistics for TEU traffic in leading Italian ports...
MSC considers investments in Gioia Tauro port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 30, 2018 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) considers investments in Gioia Tauro port, the president of the...
2M alliance strengthens Mediterranean services
Algeciras, Spain (Ports Europe) March 20, 2018 – The 2M alliance has announced the strengthening of its services in connections from Asia to Europe and the...
Gioia Tauro port seeks to verify investment intentions of MCT
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 6, 2018 – Gioia Tauro port authority has requested from Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) documentation to evaluate...
Gioia Tauro seeks to improve commercial ties with companies at Fruit Logistica 2018 fair
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 15, 2018 – Gioia Tauro port participated in the Fruit Logistica 2018 fair, which was held in Berlin between...
Messina port concerned about future role
Messina, Italy (Ports Europe) February 13, 2018 – Concern has been raised by Admiral Gian Francesco Cremonini, for almost ten years director of the...
Contship sees reduced container traffic in 2017
Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) January 25, 2018 – Contship Italia Group, a maritime container terminal and intermodal operator, saw container volumes drop...
Messina port in dispute with Gioia Tauro
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) January 18, 2018 – The crisis of the port of Gioia Tauro is likely to materialise in Messina, whose port authority does...
Gioia Tauro port mulls revoking MCT concession
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) January 16, 2018 – Gioia Tauro port authority needs to verify whether the conditions for the operation of the...
Gioia Tauro loses container traffic leadership amid conflict of shareholders
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) January 12, 2018 – Gioia Tauro port has lost its leadership on the Italian market for container traffic, as its throughput...
Gioia Tauro set for special economic zone (ZES)
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 8, 2017 – Gioia Tauro port, in the Reggio Calabria region, has received initial approval to set up a special...
Gioia Tauro port’s container traffic declines 11% y/y in Jan-Sep 2017
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) November 20, 2017 – Gioia Tauro port’s container traffic declined by 11% on the year in the first nine months of 2017,...
Messina port to join Sicily’s special economic zone
Messina, Italy (PortSEurope) November 2, 2017 – Italy’s government plans to include Messina port in the special economic zone (SEZ) that it plans...
Calabrian pleasure boat companies set up association
Cosenza, Italy (Ports Europe) October 12, 2017 – Calabrian pleasure boats companies have set up an association, named Confapi Nautica, that will represent...
Italy’s poor intermodal capacity limits MoS competitiveness
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) September 19, 2017 – Given its advantageous geographical location in the Mediterranean, Italy should represent a hub for...