Port of La Spezia ( it, Porto della Spezia) is a port in

La Spezia La Spezia (, or , ; in the local Spezzino dialect) is the capital city of the province of La Spezia and is located at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the southern part of the Liguria region of Italy. La Spezia is the second largest city ...

Liguria Liguria (; lij, Ligûria ; french: Ligurie) is a Regions of Italy, region of north-western Italy; its Capital city, capital is Genoa. Its territory is crossed by the Alps and the Apennine Mountains, Apennines Mountain chain, mountain range and is ...

, Italy. The port of La Spezia is one of the largest commercial ports in the

Ligurian Sea The Ligurian Sea ( it, Mar Ligure; french: Mer Ligurienne; lij, Mâ Ligure) is an arm of the Mediterranean Sea. It lies between the Italian Riviera (Liguria) and the island of Corsica. The sea is thought to have been named after the ancient L ...

, and is located in the northernmost part of the Gulf of La Spezia. Its development dates from the late nineteenth century and has since grown to become one of the main ports of the Mediterranean Sea, specializing in container handling in particular. Inside a bay of 1500 hectares protected by a breakwater of about , the port of La Spezia has of quays and at least of space. In 2014, 15,700,000 tonnes and 483,564 passengers passed through the port. According to the 2017 official data, the port of La Spezia was the second Italian node in terms of

TEUs The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu) is an inexact unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports.Rowlett, 2004. It is based on the volume of a intermodal container, a standard-sized metal box whic ...

movement, preceded by the Port of Genoa with an annual movement of 2.6 millions in respect of a national traffic of around 10.5 millions TEUs. Quote: ''The most important Italian ports are Venice and Trieste, which registered over 600,000 TEUs in 2017''.

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