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In these new market conditions, in which the Mediterranean has regained a central role in the world’s maritime trade, the Port of Taranto faces new commercial, economic and industrial challenges to reach and maintain standards of development and levels of competitiveness that will allow it to keep pace with its European rivals.

At the same time, the port must be able to cope with social and economic trends in areas such as the widespread relocation of manufacturing activities to developing countries, related traffic flows for imports of raw materials and exports of finished products as well as low-cost production, etc.

Since April 2007, when I was appointed President of the second most important Italian port (with a throughput of about 50 million tonnes in 2006), I have had a clear vision of its future development: the growth of commercial traffic, through the establishment of a new world-class container terminal, on the one hand, and the speeding up of procedures for creating logistics facilities in the port and surrounding areas, on the other.
In particular, construction is expected to start by the end of 2008 on a Logistics Platform, while the contribution of private investors is sought for another planned facility, the Distripark, on a site covering 750,000 square metres.

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