Record year for TDT in 2025 with further investments planned for 2026

2025 was a record year for Terminal Darsena Toscana (TDT). Following its integration into the Grimaldi Group at the beginning of 2024, the company’s operational results and investment plan reflect solid, development-oriented management strengthening the terminal’s competitive positioning and confirming its strategic role within the Port of Livorno.

In detail, in 2025 TDT handled 450,281 TEU across import/export and transshipment traffic, marking an 18.1% increase on the previous year, when volumes totalled 381,198 TEU. This particularly significant result confirms the strengthening of container traffic as the terminal’s core business.

The reefer segment posted an even more remarkable performance: a total of 28,779 full refrigerated containers were handled during the year, up 36% from the 21,070 units processed in 2024. This figure further consolidates TDT’s profile as a key cold chain hub supporting the agri-food and pharmaceutical supply chains.

Encouraging signs also came from the rail–sea intermodal segment: in 2025, the terminal handled 1,407 trains, compared with 1,303 in 2024, an 8% increase.

These results were supported by a comprehensive investment program throughout 2025, including both the renewal of handling equipment and extraordinary maintenance works. The aim was to maintain high levels of operational reliability while increasing terminal capacity in line with higher volumes. Further strengthening the terminal fleet, new reach stackers have been delivered this month.

During 2026, work will also begin on the extension of the internal rail link, aimed at building tracks up to 750 metres in length, in line with European standards. Together with the upgrading of the Grande Galleria dell’Appennino on the Prato–Bologna line, this will enable TDT to operate trains carrying high-cube containers on standard wagons along the northern axis of the Scandinavian–Mediterranean TEN-T corridor, significantly expanding connectivity opportunities with European markets.

Within this context of growth and consolidation, TDT looks confidently to the future and confirms its willingness to play a central role in the development of the Darsena Europa project, strategic infrastructure for the growth of the Port of Livorno, for which it has already submitted a formal binding application supported by an investment plan of nearly €200 million.