Ravenna port
| Ravenna port | |||
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| UN / LOCODE | IT RAN | ||
| operator | Ravenna Port Authority ( ADSP del Mare Adriatico centro-settentrionale ) |
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| opening | 1738 | ||
| Port type | seaport | ||
| Throughput | 25,962,764 tons (2016) | ||
| Container (TEU) | 234,511 (2016) | ||
| website | www.port.ravenna.it | ||
| Geographic information | |||
| place | Ravenna | ||
| region | Emilia-Romagna | ||
| Country | Italy | ||
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| Coordinates | 44 ° 28 '40 " N , 12 ° 16' 12" E | ||
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The port of Ravenna is a major Adriatic seaport in the Italian city of Ravenna . The port has several terminals for mineral oil, general cargo, bulky goods and containers, a passenger terminal for cross and ferry traffic and the largest Adriatic marina .
Infrastructure and handling
The port of Ravenna is the only seaport in the Emilia-Romagna region . It is essentially a canal port on Canale Corsini , which connects the district of Porto Corsini on the Adriatic Sea with the city of Ravenna, located around 11 kilometers south-west inland. In front of Porto Corsini, two piers, each over two kilometers long, protect the mouth of the canal. Several kilometers of quays and several terminals, which are operated by 22 companies, stretch along the canal . The port is administered by a port authority .
The port is mainly oriented towards trade with the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia. The turnover of goods in 2015 was around 25 million tons. The connections to the iron and motorway network and the relatively short distances to northern Italian and central European industrial areas are advantages, but other ports in northern and central Italy can also refer to them, such as Trieste , Ancona or Marghera near Venice . Ravenna is the southern endpoint of the TEN-T core network corridor Baltic Sea - Adriatic .
history
The modern seaport of Ravenna was essentially created after the Second World War . However, the city can look back on over 2000 years of seafaring tradition. At the time of the Roman Republic , Ravenna had a small trading and fishing port near Classe. Between 35 and 12 BC it was expanded into the military port of Classe , where the Roman Navy stationed one of its two main fleets. Later it was also used by the Byzantine Navy . After the Lombards conquered the Exarchate of Ravenna in 751 , the port fell into disrepair and eventually silted up.
Until the 18th century Ravenna had a small port at today's district of Porto Fuori on Panfilio-channel 1739 as Fiumi Uniti took up the rivers Ronco and Montone, which the the Papal States were part of the city flooded again and again. Under Pope Clement XII. (Lorenzo Corsini) the Canale Corsini (or Canale Candiano ) was opened in 1737 , which leads from Ravenna in a north-easterly direction to the Adriatic coast. It was actually a reopening because it was laid out in the 15th century under the brief rule of the Republic of Venice , but then silted up. At the mouth of the canal, the port of Porto Corsini was built in 1748, which was one of the most important trading ports of the Papal States in the following century. Porto Corsini was also one of the most important seaports on the Adriatic in the Kingdom of Italy . The cruise terminal was opened there in 2011.
The Canale Corsini was expanded to become a canal port after the discovery of oil and methane deposits off the coast of Romagna . After mainly refineries and petrochemical plants had been built there, the port was diversified from the 1970s onwards and terminals for other bulk goods and containers were built.
Web links
- Official website of the Port Authority of Ravenna (Italian and English)