terminal for steel industry

Steelmaking has been the main engine of Taranto’s economy since the early 1960s when a major steelworks was established there. Privatised in 1994 and acquired by the RIVA Group, this steelworks is run by ILVA S.p.A.

The Taranto plant has maintained its leading position in the world market in spite of mixed fortunes in the steelmaking sector in the course of the 1980s.
The steel industry is the Port of Taranto’s biggest customer. ILVA has the concession at four piers (Nos 2, 3, 4 and 5) and one quay (No 3) providing a total of 4,589 metres of wharfage with up to 25.0 metres draught and 931,000 square metres of operating areas. These facilities are used for discharging raw materials such as coal and iron ore and for loading and discharging finished and semi-finished products including billets, coils, pipes, sheets and slabs.
Total annual throughput of steel-related traffic is over 30 million tonnes including raw materials and finished products. Annual throughput of finished products is about 10 million tonnes.