AN EVOLVING SYSTEM

The port of Taranto looks to the future as an infrastructure with a complete logistics offer where, alongside the strategic location along the main transoceanic routes, the presence of adequate seabed and the important operational capacity of the piers and the direct connection with the motorway network, there will also be the presence of a state-of-the-art railway network and a cargo airport – the Arlotta airpot in Grottaglie – that is considered a strategic crossroad serving the Apulian logistics system within the framework of a complete intermodal system. Future challenges will contribute to the development of regeneration processes in the areas characterizing the port system: from energy-environmental efficiency to the enhancement of digitalization and the interoperability of information systems. The port represents the beating heart of the city, a hub capable of boosting the local economy, supporting the vitality of the productive realities and the wider interconnection and integration of the port community; the goal is to generate new business models that can be declined in the philosophy of the ‘circular economy’, a tool capable of supporting the maximum enhancement of maritime, port, industrial, logistic and tourist resources.