Port of La Spezia, La Spezia

Port of La Spezia is a port in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. The port of La Spezia is one of the largest commercial ports in the Ligurian Sea, 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 2.2 kilometres, the port of La Spezia has 5.1 kilometres of quays and at least 400,000 square kilometres of space. In 2014, 15,700,000 tonnes and 483,564 passengers passed through the port. ()