Today the Port System Authority of the Tyrrhenian Seas Southern and Ionian Sea, the Regional Consortium for the Development of Attività Produttive (Corap) and the company Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) that manages the container terminal of the port of Gioia Tauro have signed an agreement whose purpose is to maintain the high infrastructural conditions necessary to to ensure the further development of the Calabrian port and, in particular, to ensure the to have the availability of more areas in concession considered MCT's business development plan. The latter needs additional concession areas to an area of 162,900 square meters, some of which located in or near the MCT terminal.

Remembering that the area affected by the new request concession of the terminal operator company is subject to dispute between the Port Authority and Corap, which recently saw the Court of Appeal of Reggio Calabria declare its ownership in Regional Consortium for the Development of Agricultural Activities a decision currently challenged before the Supreme Court Court of Cassation, the Port System Authority has explained that it was necessary to go further to offer formal guarantees to the terminal operators' expansion program and, more in general, in order to ensure continuity and certainty the further development of the port of call.

In the areas subject to the dispute, it has been planned in fact, a series of activities that will also see the construction of the functional electrical substation also to the cold ironing activity being installed along the entire port canal, but also the construction of the Punto cross-border inspection of goods in transit at the port port of Calabria, to be made available to the Ministry of Health, which will be inaugurated in the next few weeks.

The Port Authority pointed out that, despite the ongoing litigation. The primary interest of the Port of Rio has prevailed between the two bodies. Gioia Tauro.