2020 GROWING DESPITE THE EMERGENCY

The 2020 of the Port of Ortona, despite the Coronavirus pandemic which represented one of the most nefarious events in recent decades, recorded growth in the end-of-year data, with encouraging numbers in entry, exit and in terms of quantity of goods handled . The agri-food sector was certainly the driving force for the Ortona airport, we will go on to see why.

The Port of Ortona responds to the pandemic with numbers

SOLID NUMBERS AND BASES TO BET ON

Going to rattle off a few numbers, the Port of Ortona recorded, in the midst of the emergency, almost 600 incoming and outgoing movements, with a total of about one million tons of goods handled overall. Definitely excellent numbers that represent an iconic growth compared to 2019, even though there was no emergency in place at the time. What made the difference was certainly the burden that the Adriatic port took on, namely that of fully responding to the needs of the incoming and outgoing agri-food sector. It is from here that we must start again for a future in which this Port can and must give more.

Ortona as a reference point for logistics

BUROCRACY TO FIGHT, BUT A CONSOLIDATED ROLE OF CENTRALITY

In a moment of extreme delicacy, the Port of Ortona has therefore confirmed, if possible by consolidating and strengthening, its central role in the field of integrated logistics in the territory, a sensitive and very hot issue. Nevertheless, there are several problems that still characterize the Abruzzese port, peculiarities largely linked to well-known bureaucratic quibbles. For example, dredging is a long-standing problem that has been going on for years, as is the completion of the quay, with the possibility of having a greater number of drafts available, thus making the port even more functional. At the infrastructural level, on the other hand, the connections between the Ortona motorway exit and the Port must be improved and optimized.

THE OBJECTIVES

A "policy" of support and openness towards companies, with greater fluidity in the realization as well as in the completion of structural and infrastructural works aimed at further enhancing the Port of Ortona, would in fact deliver to the territory a primary hub in the logistics field, flagship of Abruzzo in the world. All this, of course, must be accompanied by an inevitable process of innovation which, as often specified and underlined, no company in any sector can escape.