"The expansion of the free zone of the port of Trieste is an issue we are pursuing, as we are with other ports that have specific characteristics. We must enhance the Italian system and, within the Italian system, Trieste plays a leading role — it is irreplaceable. We must invest in this territory, which cannot be substituted, because geographically it is unique. The risk for Trieste is losing traffic to the ports that lie directly opposite it." This was stated by the Deputy Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Edoardo Rixi, who visited the Giulian port today to assess the future and development of the hub.
To counter direct competition and consolidate commercial routes, Rixi argued that the strategy must necessarily focus on international attractiveness and new global partnerships: "Our ability must be, in some way, to accelerate," he continued, "and to succeed in establishing consolidated relationships with third-party nations for driving traffic."
"For this reason, the company will also have an international vocation, going out to make investments in third-party ports outside the European Union in order to attract traffic to Italian ports, as the Chinese and all maritime nations are currently doing, but as the old maritime republics once did as well," Rixi concluded.
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