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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.

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...

MCT promises €120 million investment in Gioia Tauro port

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 19, 2019 – Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) has suspended the redundancy schemes and announced investments of...

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...

Gioia Tauro port’s container traffic declines 6% in 2018

Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) January 14, 2019 – Gioia Tauro port recorded a 6% decline in container traffic in 2018 to 2.3 milllion TEUs. The data...

Gioia Tauro port approves budget for 2019, business plan for 2019-2021

Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 31, 2018 – Gioia Tauro port’s board of directors has given the green light to the budget for next year and...

2M Alliance to reduce calls in Gioia Tauro, La Spezia ports in March

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 19, 2018 – Maersk Line and the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) plans to reduce the calls of Asia-Mediterranean...

China’s Guizhou province eyes Italy’s Calabria ports

Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 17, 2018 – China’s Guizhou province has expressed interest in using the ports in the southern Italian region...

Isia Global Service is unfit for carrying out port operations

Gioia Tauro, Italy  (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – The Regional Administrative Court of Reggio Calabria has ruled that the company Isia Global...

Italian court reinstates 30 workers of Gioia Tauro port

Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) December 5, 2018 – An Italian court has reinstated 30 of the 377 workers of the port of Gioia Tauro who were fired in July...

Local chamber of commerce starts planning for Crotone port development

Gioia Tauro, Italy  (PortSEurope) December 3, 2018 – The Crotone Chamber of Commerce (Camera di commercio di Crotone)has started the process to develop...

Fedespedi publishes report on Italian container terminals in 2017

Rome, Italy (PortSEurope) November 28, 2018 – Fedespedi, the association of freight forwarders, has published a report “Container Terminals in...

Chinese delegation visits Gioia Tauro port

Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) November 26, 2018 – Chinese Minister of Economy Li Bin has visited the port of Gioia Tauro during a tour organised by the...

Gioia Tauro port’s container traffic decline trend continues

Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) November 16, 2018 – Gioia Tauro port recorded a 6% decline in the traffic of containers year-on-year in the first nine...

President of Calabria in Rome to discuss Gioia Tauro port issues

Gioia Tauro, Italy  (PortSEurope) November 11, 2018 – The President of the Calabria region, Mario Oliveiro, has visited Rome to discuss a number of...

Italy’s Tuna Callipo Group to open warehouse at Gioia Tauro port

Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) November 7, 2018 – Italian tuna producer Tuna Callipo Group has agreed a contract for the operation of a warehouse of...

Tremestieri port dredging to start this week

Chioggia, Italy (PortSEurope) November 7, 2018 – Dredging at the port of Tremestieri will start this week, and it will take an estimated six days to...

Italy’s AutoTerminal to hire 35 employees at Gioia Tauro port

Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) October 12, 2018 – Italian port terminal operator AutoTerminal Gioia Tauro SpA plans to hire 35 employees registered in the...

Contship Italia starts dock overhaul project at Gioia Tauro port

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2018 – Contship Italia has started work on the redevelopment of Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), its Gioia...

Italy may launch plan to encourage development of Gioia Tauro port

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) October 1, 2018 – Italy’s government is to establish a national plan for the development of the port sector, which...

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