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Genoa Port

Right:

Shipyard of Ferretti Group,

Sarnico, Italy

Italy Facts

Population: 61,680,122

GDP: $2.129 trillion

GDP - Real Growth Rate: -0.2%

Waterways: 2,400 km (used for com- ban on offshore drilling following the appear in the top-20 port list: Trieste, the largest player in the Adriatic Sea. In mercial traf? c; of limited overall value

Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf Genova, Augusta, Taranto, Venezia and total, around 50,000 people work in the compared to road and rail) (2012) of Mexico, the LNG facilities are heavily Gioia Tauro. In all six ports SSS prevails ? sheries industry. The current trend in pushed forward by the national govern- over ocean shipping (whereby SSS rep- aquaculture is to reduce plants on land or

Merchant Marine, total: 681 ment. Italy is currently being connected resents more than 90% of Italy’s total along the coast and develop deep-sea ac-

Bulk carrier: 105 to Greece via the IGI project (Intercon- seaborne transport of goods). The port of tivities, like offshore cages to be used for

Cargo: 42 nection Greece – Italy) for the import of Gioia Tauro specializes in SSS of con- sea farming. Total aquaculture produc-

Carrier: 1 natural gas in Italy through Greece. In tainers, with only 14% of containers be- tion in 2008 was approximately 181,000

Chemical tanker: 164 the ? nal analysis the country remains ing ‘ocean bound.’ tons. The country’s maritime sector is

Container: 21 heavily dependent on foreign reserves Italy’s geography provides abundant likely to see bright days ahead. The gov-

Lique? ed gas: 28 for about 90 percent of its energy needs. access to marine ? shing. The country’s ernment appears to be ready to take on

Passenger: 25

Italy boasts of a strong merchant ? eet ? shing ? eet consists of around 14,000 the country’s energy de? cit, starting with

Passenger/cargo: 154 (around 600 vessels) which is the fourth vessels with catches of nearly 300,000 new calls for investment and a reversal

Petroleum tanker: 59 largest in the EU in terms of vessels. Ital- tons in 2012. Except for around 30 oce- of the offshore ban. There are clear op-

Refrigerated cargo: 4 ian ports offer more than 1,100 places of anic vessels, the Italian ? shing ? eet op- portunities for increased cooperation 39 RoRo: boarding and 282 km of quays. In 2008, erates in the Mediterranean Sea basin: and networking both on a political and

Specialized tanker: 9

Italy accounted for the second largest more speci? cally, the majority of these industry level. The industry is hopeful

Vehicle carrier: 30 weight of Short Sea Shipping (SSS) of vessels operate in waters around the Ital- and expects to see more aggressive de-

Foreign-owned: 90 goods in the EU-257. Six Italian ports ian peninsula. Moreover, Italy is by far velopment in time to come.

(Denmark 4, France 2, Greece 7, Lux- embourg 14, Netherlands 2, Nigeria 1, Norway 6, Singapore 1, Sweden 1,

Switzerland 13, Taiwan 10, Turkey 4,

UK 2, US 23)

Registered in other countries: 201 (Bahamas 1, Belize 3, Cayman Islands 7, Cyprus 6, Georgia 2, Gibraltar 4,

Greece 5, Liberia 47, Malta 45, Mar- shall Islands 1, Morocco 1, Netherlands

STOCK (Purchase and Rental): 6, Panama 25, Portugal 12, Russia s