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Taranto

The Port of Taranto is located on the inner heal of southeastern Italy, is one of the first in Italy for goods traffic and plays an important role commercially and strategically on the Mediterranean Sea. It is operated by Autorita’ di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ionio (AdSP – Port Authority of the Ionian Sea-Port of Taranto).

Italy: Total port cargo 2018/2019 by AdSP and port

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) April 25, 2020 – Assoporti has published total tonnage in ports in 2018/2019 by Autorità di Sistema Portuale (AdSP) with...

Italy: Total port traffic handled in 2019; by AdSP and port

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) April 25, 2020 – Assoporti has published total tonnage in ports in 2019 by Autorità di Sistema Portuale (AdSP) with...

Chinese company makes second mask donation to Taranto port

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2020 – China Communication Construction Company Ltd (CCCC) has donated 2,000 masks to the port of Taranto...

Meeting between Ferretti Group and the government on the future of the nautical sector

News – Meeting between Ferretti Group and the Government on the future of the nautical sector – April 7, 2020 A first meeting was held in Taranto...

Italian government proposes investment in transport in the south

Rome, Italy (Ports Europe) March 25, 2020 – The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has published in the Official Journal details of an allocation...

Taranto port sees cargo traffic down over 11% in 2019

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) March 25, 2020 – In the calendar year of 2019, the south Italian port of Taranto handled 18.1 million tons, down 11.3% on...

YILPORT Holding takes over Taranto Container Terminal

News Release – YILPORT – March 3, 2020 Yilport Holding announced the takeover of Port of Taranto’s container terminal. The 49-year concession...

Yilport takes official receipt of Molo Polisettoriale, Taranto port

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) March 2, 2020 – San Cataldo Container Terminal SpA (SCCT), part of Yilport Holding, has officially taken ownership of the...

Global Ports Holding division applies for Taranto port concession

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) January 19, 2020 – Global Ports Melita Ltd, part of Turkey’s Global Ports Holding (GPH), has applied to Autorita’...

YILPORT announces new business plan for 2020 and beyond

YILPORT Holding announces new business plan for 2020 and beyond – January 16, 2020 Robert Yuksel Yildirim, the Founder and Chairman of YILPORT Holding,...

MEDPorts, the association of Mediterranean ports, meets in Venice

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe) December 19, 2019 – The General Assembly of MEDPorts, an association founded in 2018 to establish an area of...

Intesa Sanpaolo promotes southern Italian companies and port activities in China

Beijing, China (PortSEurope) October 29, 2019 – Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A., the Italian banking group, has launched the Intesa Sanpaolo Mission in China...

COSCO and Yildirim in talks

Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) September 20, 2019 – On Twitter this week, Robert Yuksel Yildirim, President & CEO of Yildirim Group, owner of the...

RCM Costruzioni signs contract for Taranto port work

Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) September 13, 2019 – The regional court (TAR) has approved the award to RCM Costruzioni Srl of the contract for the...

Brindisi port sees reduced traffic

Brindisi, Italy (PortSEurope) September 8, 2019 – In the period from January to June 2019, the port of Brindisi closed with an overall -15.9%,...

YILPORT Holding Signs 49-Year Concession for Port of Taranto

YILPORT issued the following press release – July 30, 2019 News – YILPORT Holding Signs 49-Year Concession for Port of Taranto Yilport Holding...

Yilport signs 49-year concession at Taranto port

Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) July 31, 2019 – The concession for the container terminal of the port of Taranto was signed at Terminal San Cataldo SpA,...

Yilport gets go-ahead for Taranto port concession

Taranto, Italy (PortSEurope) July 19, 2019 – The regional court (TAR) has rejected the appeal of Southgate Europe Terminal Consortium, giving the...

Ranking – Top cargo ports in the Europe 2016-2017

Brussels, Belgium (PortSEurope) July 18, 2019 – The European Statistical Agency, Eurostat, has published statistics for the top cargo ports in Europe for...

Taranto port recovers part of lost bulk traffic, backed by steel industry stabilisation

Taranto, Italy (Ports Europe) April 26, 2019 – Taranto port’s bulk cargo traffic rose 19.2% in 2018 to 1.5 million tonnes, while the number of bulk...

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