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.
Ravenna holds public meeting to discuss proposed LNG facility
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) November 22, 2017 – On November 29, 2017, there was a second public meeting on the development of the project for the...
Abruzzo region to invest €3.5 million to repair Pescara port breakwater
Pescara, Italy (PortSEurope) November 21, 2017 – The Abruzzo regional government has launched a project to repair of the breakwater of Pescara port, with an...
La Spezia port operators request measures to reduce truck congestion
La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 21, 2017 – The associations of operators of La Spezia port have called on the management of the harbour to set up a...
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,...
Sardinian Sea Port Authority meets for first time
Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mare Di Sardegna (The Sardinian Sea Port Authority) has held its first meeting in Cagliari. The AdSP is responsible for the...
Reefer Terminal S.p.A. – October 2017 container terminal statistics
Vado Ligure, Italy (PortSEurope) November 17, 2017 – Reefer Terminal S.p.A., operated by Cosco of China, has reported October 2017 container terminal...
Trieste Marine Terminal presents intermodal offering in Budapest
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 17, 2017 – On November 7-8, 2017, Marco Zollia, Sales and Marketing Manager of Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT)...
Sicily gets €490,000 EU funding for overhaul of port near Trapani
Trapani, Italy (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – Sicily regional government has agreed on a €486,525 ($573,275) funding from the European Union (EU) for...
EUROKAI: Interim report Q3 2017 – Contship Italia
Hamburg, Germany (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – Handling volumes for the Contship Italia Group in the first nine months of the business year 2017 stood...
EUROKAI reports on south European container terminal performance – Q3 2017
Hamburg, Germany (PortSEurope) November 16, 2017 – In the first three quarters of 2017 the container terminals of the EUROKAI Group handled 10.9 million...
Assoporti to meet in Rome December 12, 2017
Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) November 15, 2017 – Assoporti, the Italian association of ports, will hold an assembly in Rome on December 12, 2017. The event...
North Adriatic Ports Association holds meeting in Ravenna
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 14, 2017 – The North Adriatic Ports Association (NAPA) has held a meeting in Ravenna, where Zeno...
Event: “The role of Mediterranean ports in the European transport networks” – Civitavecchia, November 24
International Conference “The role of Mediterranean ports in the European transport networks” – Civitavecchia, 24th November The “land bridge”...
Trieste, Koper ports handle more trains than Rotterdam
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) November 13, 2017 – Italy’s Trieste and Slovenia’s Koper ports together handle more trains weekly than Rotterdam...
Fincantieri seeks to delist Vard
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 13, 2017 – Fincantieri O&G, a subsidiary of Fincantieri S.p.A. plans to privatise the Singapore-listed Vard...
Friuli Venezia Giulia meets with Turkey’s Samer & Co Shipping
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 12, 2017 – The role of Trieste’s port in trade between Europe and Turkey and the development of the logistics...
Bari port to be one of first recipients of 5G telecommunications
Bari, Italy (PortSEurope) November 12, 2017 – Among the first in Italy, the port of Bari is to be equipped with 5G technology. It is the result of a...
International Propeller Club Ravenna holds Silk Road public meeting
Ravenna, Italy (PortSEurope) November 12, 2017 – On November 9, 2017, the Board of Directors of the International Propeller Club of Port of Ravenna, with...
Event: Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Tirreno Centrale – ZES opportunities, November 16, 2017, Naples
Naples, Italy (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – On November 16, 2017, “the ZES – Special Economic Zone: New Opportunities for the...
Liguria regional government insists on autonomy of its ports
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 10, 2017 – Italy’s Liguria regional government president Edoardo Rixi has called on the central government to...