Gioia Tauro

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Gioia Tauro
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Gioia Tauro (Italy)
Gioia Tauro
Country Italy
region Calabria
Metropolitan city Reggio Calabria  (RC)
Coordinates 38 ° 26 '  N , 15 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 38 ° 26 '0 "  N , 15 ° 54' 0"  E
height 29  m slm
surface 38 km²
Residents 20.003 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density 526 inhabitants / km²
Post Code 89013
prefix 0966
ISTAT number 080038
Popular name Gioiesi
Patron saint Ippolito di Roma
Website Gioia Tauro

Gioia Tauro is an Italian municipality in the metropolitan city of Reggio Calabria with 20,003 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2019). It is best known for its container port .

Location and dates

The neighboring municipalities are Palmi , Polistena, Rizziconi , Rosarno , San Ferdinando and Seminara .

Gioia Tauro is on the motorway A 2 , at the same time part of the E 45 , after Naples and has access to the railway line Tirrenica Meridional (Sicily / northern Italy).

economy

The harbor

The port Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT Medcenter or shorter; operator Contship Italia ) is the largest container port Italy. It opened in the early 1970s. He gained negative fame in 2006 when the Italian police reported in a report that 80% of the cocaine coming from Colombia to Europe passed through Gioia Tauro. It should also be a hub for illegal arms trade . It is also known that the 'Ndrangheta , a large Mafia organization, has infiltrated the port for decades. Among other things, the 'Ndrangheta uses the port to handle toxic waste, the illegal disposal of which it is active across Europe

Oil and food manufacturers are based in Gioia Tauro. There is also a shopping center and several hotels in town.

sons and daughters of the town

  • Pino Arlacchi (* 1951), Italian sociologist, politician and author

Web links

Commons : Gioia Tauro  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiche demografiche ISTAT. Monthly population statistics of the Istituto Nazionale di Statistica , as of December 31 of 2019.
  2. ↑ Final report of the Commissione parlamentare di inchiesta sul fenomeno della criminalità organizzata mafiosa o similare (“Commissione parlamentare antimafia”) of February 19, 2008, pp. 89–100 (Chapter Gioia Tauro, Porto Franco ) and pp. 232, 234 and 240.
  3. ^ "Corrupt Business in Italy", Saarbrücker Zeitung of January 8, 2018, page A8