{"id":4733,"date":"2017-04-13T17:15:38","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T17:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tal-oil.com\/?p=4733"},"modified":"2020-01-16T16:23:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T14:23:36","slug":"tal-group-celebrates-half-a-century-of-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tal-oil.com\/en\/news\/news-austria\/tal-group-celebrates-half-a-century-of-activity","title":{"rendered":"TAL GROUP CELEBRATES HALF A CENTURY OF ACTIVITY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trieste, 13 April 2017<\/strong> &#8211; On 13 April 1967 the oil tanker Daphnella berthed in the Marine Terminal of Siot: the crude oil was unloaded and stored in the Tank Farm in San Dorligo della Valle, waiting for the first transfer to German refineries through the Transalpine Pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years after that historical moment \u2013 that was a true innovation for Central European energy supply systems, guaranteeing the economic development of South Germany, Austria and more recently of the Czech Republic \u2013 TAL Group has held a <strong>press conference<\/strong> today at the Marine Terminal, together with the Port Authority and the Corps of Harbour Master.<br \/>\nIn 50 years TAL Group has transported over <strong>1.4 billion<\/strong> tonnes of crude oil, pumping it through the pipeline: from the first ship 50 years ago until 31st March this year <strong>19,154<\/strong> tankers berthed in the Marine Terminal.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, five hundred ships arrived carrying a total of <strong>41.3 million<\/strong> tonnes of crude oil and set the record of crude oil transported in one year: around <strong>41.4 million<\/strong> tonnes. With a turnover of <strong>86.7 million<\/strong> euros, SIOT is the main terminal operator of the Port of Trieste with over 70% of traffic, and it is an important economic resource for Trieste and Friuli Venezia Giulia region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTAL Group \u2013 said General Manager of TAL Group and Chief Executive Officer of SIOT, <strong>Alessio Lilli<\/strong> \u2013 has transported energy for 50 years: Austria, Czech Republic and Germany use the oil that comes from Trieste every day as energy resource feeding central European refineries. The Transalpine Pipeline started working in 1967: a European engineering work, built in only one thousand days, when geopolitics used to draw borders and the economies of continental states were incompatible: Economy, Finance and Engineering, half a century ago, were able to anticipate the geopolitical future and build a <strong>connection and integration<\/strong> bridge between Friuli Venezia Giulia, Austria and Bavaria.<\/p>\n<p>Today the TAL Group Pipeline supplies <strong>100%<\/strong> of the energy needs of Bavaria and Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg, <strong>90%<\/strong> Austria and about <strong>50%<\/strong> Czech Republic and is the real example of the farsighted international collaboration that has merged economies, knowledge and cultures\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4733\" data-postid=\"4733\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4733 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifty years ago the first tanker berthed in the Marine Terminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1137,"featured_media":6649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,64,65],"tags":[198],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tal-oil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tal-oil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tal-oil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tal-oil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tal-oil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4733"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tal-oil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8173,"href":"https:\/\/www.tal-oil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4733\/revisions\/8173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tal-oil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tal-oil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tal-oil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tal-oil.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}