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The HiCo Region can count on four relevant ports, adequately connected to other routes of transportation of goods, such as motorways, railways and airports.
The Port of Trieste is the most relevant in the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region. Together with the Port of Koper, it is characterized by a particular free zone status, due to a special law on customs.
Furthermore, the Port of Trieste is provided with a 70 km internal railway network.
The Port of Koper is located 20 km away from the airport of Portorož, within an area with a high potential for economic development.
The Port of Monfalcone is located only 5 km away from the Ronchi dei Legionari airport, approximately 25 km away from the Cervignano logistic centre and 15 km away from the Gorizia traffic centre.
The Porto Nogaro Port, connected to the Aussa-Corno Industrial Zone, near Cervignano, is characterized by an increasing expansion of traffic.
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Port of Trieste The Port of Trieste is linked to the A4 Trieste-Udine/Venice motorway through an elevated road that allows to avoid the city centre, and is located a few kilometres away from the Fernetti border post with Slovenia. It is provided with a 70 km internal railway infrastructure connected to the national network.
The port is divided into five free zones characterized by special customs laws, and offers the following services:
- storing, processing and packaging of products;
- dry-docking, repairing, transformation and special shipbuilding;
- container repairing;
- towing; anti-pollution works;
- foodstuff shipments and water supply to ships in the roadstead.
The Port of Monfalcone benefits from a perfect seabed and an almost total lack of fog. Moreover, it is provided with excellent motorway and railway connections.
Furthermore, it is at the centre of an intermodal area which, in only 25 kilometres, encompasses the Ronchi dei Legionari airport for national and international flights (5 km away), the Gorizia traffic centre and customs station (15 km away) and the Cervignano railway station (25 km away).
The port offers services of cargo handling and storing, to be added to the services offered by ship agents, forwarding agents and haulers.The Port of Koper offers several services in its 11 terminals and enjoys a free-zone status that provides operators with several possibilities of cooperation and establishment.
The reference market of the Slovenian terminal is made up of an area enjoying a great potential for economic development, also considering the European Union enlargement.
Coffee, rice, sugar, cotton, iron, ferrous and non-ferrous metal products, paper, cellulose, fruit and other types of perishable goods, cars, timber, cereals and coal are among the main types of goods the port deals with.Porto Nogaro Port is located on the banks of the Corno river. It can be entered from the Adriatic Sea, through a canal that crosses the lagoon and is approximately 3 miles long, and through the Aussa Corno navigable channel. The port is articulated in the two structures of Porto Vecchio and Porto Margreth.
During the last decade, Porto Nogaro Port has experienced a gradual growth in traffic. The structures of Porto Nogaro Port have thus become strategic nodal points for traffics coming from the Black Sea and heading to Northern Africa and the Middle East.
Among the main commodity categories dealt with in the port, scraps, semi-finished metal products and timber prevail.
