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Location and infrastructures
Harbors
- Second most important country in Europe for maritime freight for passenger transport
- Highly competitive sea transport times: all major European destinations can be reached within 5 days
- 49 million passengers per year
- 280 Km of quays
- Port traffic: 512 million tons (2007)
- 263 ports scattered along 8.122 km of coastline
- The northern ports of Genoa, Trieste and Venice afford swift access to the markets of central Europe
- The southern ports of Gioia Tauro, Taranto, Cagliari and Naples operate as transhipment centres serving freight traffic on the world's major ocean routes
