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On August 6, 1998 the port welcomed for the first time the m/v Regina Maersk, at the time the largest container ship in the world (6,400 TEUs, 318 m. long). On January 14, 2008 the MSC Daniela arrives in Gioia Tauro. It is the largest container ship to have ever called at an Italian port.
Gioia Tauro (Italian: [ˈdʒɔːja ˈtauro]) is a comune (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Reggio Calabria (Italy), on the Tyrrhenian coast. It has an important port , situated along the route connecting Suez to Gibraltar , one of the busiest maritime corridors in the world.
Naples was the first large Italian city targeted by the Allies' Operation Avalanche, commencing in September 1943, with the seizure of the port being one of its primary targets. During the Four Days of Naples , an uprising in Naples against Nazi German Occupation Forces, 240,000 people were forced to abandon their homes along the coast in the ...
The port of Ravenna is the main port of Emilia-Romagna.The European Commission has appointed the Ravenna seaport "Core port" of the TEN-T Networks.. The docks are mainly on a canal that connects the town centre of Ravenna (which is inland) to the sea which is 12 km away.
The Port of Livorno is one of the largest Italian seaports and one of the largest seaports in the Mediterranean Sea, with an annual traffic capacity of around 30 million tonnes of cargo and 700,000 TEU's. The port is also an important employer in the area, with more than 15,000 employees who provide services to more than 7,000 ships every year.
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Venice was therefore the largest of the maritime republics, as well as the most powerful state on the Italian peninsula. Venice's dominance in the eastern Mediterranean in the following centuries, despite the victory of Lepanto, was threatened and compromised by the expansion of the Ottoman Empire and by the shifting of trade to the Atlantic. [15]
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