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.
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...
Italy creates 16th port authority – Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale dello Stretto di Messina (AdSP – Strait of Messina Port Authority)
Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) September 7, 2018 – The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, at the instigation of Minister Danilo Toninelli, will...
Gioia Tauro port employees to strike on Aug 14, 15, 16
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) August 14, 2018 – Gioia Tauro port’s trade unions committee has confirmed the strike of the employees of...