The harbour of Bari is a polyvalent harbour in its basin, spread in an area of about 285 hectares. The area includes:
Equipped quays for any kind of commercial traffic (solid and liquid bulks, containers, parcels, steel and iron products, forest products, etc.)
Quays for the service of ferry-boats;
Quays for the service of stables and cattleshed both for importation and exportation;
Equipped quays for the trading and processing of the Atlantic catch;
Quays for cruising boats and relative accommodation for passengers;
In addition to the services present in the harbour, in the vicinity you can find a fridge to store frozen an deep-frozen products and a broad area for use by containers for warehousing, repairing, loading/unloading, etc. The polyvalent function of this harbour, heritage of the Bari people mercantile vocation, is nowadays made easier by its direct link with the railway network and road and motorway network, which allows a rapid connection with all the industrial, agricultural and commercial centres in Southern Italy.
Such circumstance, along with the variety of infrastructures, has preserved the role of Bari as one of the most important commercial ports in the South of Italy for what concerns its relations with the markets of the Balkan peninsula and the Middle East, which are for tradition its natural outlets. The current development of the working quays is around 2,500 ml, while the surrounding areas are 260,000 sm large.

• Port authority