container terminal

Taranto’s huge potential as a commercial hub port was unlocked in June 2001 with the opening of a container terminal – one of the most modern in the Mediterranean – with an annual handling capacity of over 2 million teu.

This state-of-the-art terminal, located on the Multipurpose Pier, can rely on extensive support services and is operated by Taranto Container Terminal S.p.A., part of the Taiwanese group Evergreen Marine Corporation, one of the world’s leading container shipping companies.
Throughput has grown steadily from 150,000 teu in 2002 to about 900,000 teu in 2006.
Taranto’s container terminal, with its own shipping lines, is an important hub for services to the Near, Middle and Far East, the Americas and Europe. There are four mainline services and five feeder services currently taking cargo throughout the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
Transhipment accounts for nearly 90 per cent of the terminal’s business, while the remaining 10 per cent – and still climbing – is made up of imports and exports.

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