‘Blue-Line line of Italy’ in Gioia Tauro tomorrow at 2 pm on Rai1

Wild ribs, between Mediterranean scrub and sea of an absolute blue, an avant -garde port that represents the door of access to the Mediterranean: the port of Gioia Tauro. “Blue line – Porta d’Italia”, the program conducted by Donatella Bianchi and Fabio Gallo, created this year in collaboration with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and the Port System Authority, returns tomorrow at 2.00 pm on Rai 1, to make a stop on the coast of Calabria Tyrrhenian, in the southernmost part that arrives at the Strait of Messina, the tip of the boot. The episode opens with the exploration of the stretch of coast south of Gioia Tauro, between Palmi and Scilla, the one that Plato called Costa Viola because of the colors that light up when the sun sets over the sea. Donatella Bianchi navigates aboard a feluca, a boat that carries on an ancient tradition, the fishing of swordfish, already practiced by the ancient Greeks. Fabio Gallo, on the other hand, goes to the discovery of one of the most fascinating villages on the purple coast, Chianalea, at the foot of the castle dominating Scilla. Here, among the houses built by the sea, the fishermen still rich their boats, despite the tourism has become the main activity of the village. Then the “blue line” cameras cross the gates of the port of Gioia Tauro, the largest in Italy and among the main Mediterranean for freight traffic. Born on the ashes of a steel center ever in operation, today it hosts giant ships, of over 400 meters, which download the containers arriving from every corner of the world on the immense squares, which then start again on smaller ships to get to their destination. Over 4 million teu (Twenty feet equivalent unit – unit of measurement of the containers) are moved per year using high cranes as 50 floors skirts. A similar volume of goods is subjected to constant checks: Fabio Gallo tells the work of financiers and customs officials engaged in one of the many daily checks made on the containers, from the transition to the X -ray scanner to the opening to control the content. The objective, then, on the life of one of the great units of the coast guard, the Gregoretti ship, engaged in patrol and control activities just off the coast of Gioia Tauro. A ship of 60 meters, equipped with very high technology systems, entrusted, for the first time, to a commander. Fabio Gallo, always along the Viola coast, tries a new discipline born in Scotland that is successful in this stretch of Calabrian coast: coasteering. In practice, the exploration of a rocky coast between swimming, climbing and dives. Finally, in Bagnara Calabra, Donatella Bianchi meets a “Bagnarota”, a definition that does not indicate only a woman from Bagnara, but, as Corrado Alvaro wrote, a strong, independent and strong -willed woman.