The Port System Authority of the Ionian Sea has announced to have received yesterday from the Ministry of the Environment and Safety Energy (MASE) the interministerial decree no. 167 of 4 July 2025 implementing Article 8, paragraph 2, of Decree-Law 9 December 2023, no. 181, on "Measures for the development of the supply chain relating to floating wind farms at sea", formalizing the admission of the document to the registration of the Court of Auditors with act no. 2156 of 23 September last, and explained that the provision that identifies the port of Taranto among the priority national hubs of reference for the development of floating offshore wind farms in Italy.

Specifying that crucial for the formal transmission of the decree was the meeting held yesterday between the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, and Erham Ciloglu, deputy CEO of Yilport who is present in the port of Taranto with the subsidiary San Cataldo Container Terminal, referring to the issue of dredging in the port Apulian the subject of the meeting with Yilport the commissioner extraordinary of the Port Authority of the Ionian Sea, Giovanni Gugliotti, explained that he had "presented the issue to Minister Salvini dredging in the port of Taranto, finding attention and a climate of concrete collaboration. The minister - added Gugliotti - recognized the strategic importance of the airport Jonico and confirmed its commitment to work with all parties involved to identify shared and lasting solutions".

With regard to the MASE decree, Gugliotti pointed out that "It will open up important new development opportunities economic, employment and sustainable for the territory, representing a fundamental stage for Taranto and for the national energy transition". The measure - has specified - unlocks resources intended, among other things, for interventions infrastructure for the modernization and adaptation of port areas interested parties who, as far as the port of Taranto is concerned, see the a step ahead of these activities having already completed the process for the Technical Functional Adaptation (ATF) of the Master Plan of the Port of Taranto for the purposes of of the decree.