Trieste: why not? The market says ‘Yes’!
Proposal of A-B Landbridge Adriatic-Baltic freight corridor gets success International operators gathered at Munich’s Transport Logistic fair appreciate the renewed image of the Italian port of Trieste and ratify its role as the true natural gateway to inland routing goods bound to Central and Eastern Europe. At the recent Transport Logistic fair in Munich the international operators who gathered paid great attention to the stand organized by Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia at booth 107 in pavilion B4, where some 20 public bodies and private operators from the Trieste port area – including terminal operators, shipagents, freight forwarders, multipurpose logistics operators, inland terminals, intermodal transport and railways companies – for sure catalyzed their attention. To let achieve that goal it was not only their large number but also, prominently, the high profile and quality features that they showed to capture visitors, customers and the international press during the 4-days event, where a few hundred operators had the chance to directly learn the totally renewed image of the port of Trieste and its excellent capability to handle additional business thanks to expertise developed throughout years as well as in response to the continuously varying challenge set by the evolving market. As a matter of fact, the Italian port, which – not only for its undisputed tradition but also by virtue of its present and in course of development assets – is the most natural gateway to Central and Eastern Europe when passing through the more and more trafficked Adriatic sea lane, could definitely convince many skeptics about its leading role and thus could start demolishing a wrong and prejudicial perception, due to past and now far distant situations, about its supposed difficulty in coping with some alleged bottlenecks.
A meeting emerged that Trieste is certainly still under-utilized, that it has not the right reputation it would deserve, especially if considered in terms of current and potential development and of business prospects at the light of the economic and social facts going on during the Third Millennium, and therefore that the Italian port has wide margins for recovering traffic and positions in the international market ranking that pivots over Europe. The Trieste Port Authority is currently engaged in the middle of dramatic changes that are scheduled to occur soon after the new huge development program, worth almost 2 billion Euro investment and focused on an enlargement of 200 hectares of land reclaimed to the sea, is ratified into the just approved Port Masterplan. Quelle: Ship2Shore |