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In the last few years the function of Italian ports has changed: they have been connected in transhipment network and have become nodes of distribution for transoceanic traffic that increasingly reaches Europe through the Mediterranean Sea.
As a consequence of the growing role of the Mediterranean Sea in trade exchanges, Italian ports have become crossroads of global flows: in 2010 about 9.750.000 of TEU passed through Italian ports.
(Source: Assoporti).
The Italian port system includes:
- 3 hub ports - Gioia Tauro, Taranto and Cagliari - which attract the most important shipping companies of the world; they offer services from/to Far East, USA, Persian Gulf and North, Central and South America
- 21 trade ports with International line services, motorways of the sea and infra-Mediterranean short sea shipping.
Italian port system
