The Port System Authority of Taranto has announced that it has officially received “the Interministerial Decree no. 167 of July 4, 2025, implementing Article 8, paragraph 2, of the law decree of December 9, 2023, no. 181, containing ‘Measures for the development of the supply chain for floating offshore wind plants’, officially admitting the document for registration with the Court of Auditors with act no. 2156 of September 23, 2025”.
The approval of the decree, which identifies Taranto and Augusta as the priority sites chosen for the development of an offshore wind supply chain, had already been announced by the Government last July. With these steps, the process takes a further step forward.
According to the Adsp “crucial for the formal transmission of the Decree was the meeting at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport between Minister Matteo Salvini and Erham Ciloglu, Vice Chief Executive Officer of the /Corex Group, a terminal operator present in the Port of Taranto with its subsidiary San Cataldo Container Terminal. The focus of the meeting was the commitment to the completion of the dredging works at the Multisector Pier and the implementation of the Mase Decree on offshore wind, a strategic measure for the Apulian territory and local logistics, whose official registration by the Court of Auditors was also awaited”.
The Authority explained that “the measure unblocks resources intended, among other things, for infrastructural interventions to modernize and adapt the involved port areas which, with regard to the Port of Taranto, see the port one step ahead in such activities, having already completed the process for the Functional Technical Adaptation of the Master Plan of the Port of Taranto for the purposes of the Decree”.
The resources, allocated by the Decree “for the modernization of the quay at the Multisector Pier”, the Adsp explained to SHIPPING ITALY, “amount – for this first step – to 28 million Euros, considering that the site in question is already available to host the new settlements and does not require significant interventions. Any future needs for additional funds will be evaluated in the second step of the project’s advancement”.
This figure aligns with the total allocated, 78.3 million euros, drawing on the proceeds from CO₂ emission allowance auctions, given that Augusta had submitted projects for approximately fifty million euros.
