TARROS Group – A leader in intra Mediterranean shipping – was established in 1963, as a development of "Grendi since 1828", one of the oldest Italian shipping operators, owned by the Musso family.
Tarros' aim was to design and build Ro-Ro container ships to be used on the route to Sardinia.

The main steps of the Group's evolution:

1963: TARROS was incorporated

1965: TARROS built the first fleet of containers in Italy conforming to I.S.O. regulations.

1967: in springtime a new container service between Genoa and Sardinia started with two small Ro-Ro container ships - Vento del Golfo and Vento di Levante - these were the first vessels to carry regularly containers in the Mediterranean sea.

1969: in January Vento di Tramontana, a "Tarros class" vessel, first one of many similar ships built both in Italy and abroad, started its service: a Ro-Ro cellular container ship designed to work in ports without equipments. Through the stern ramp of the ship the lorries position the containers under the ship's gantry crane which stores the containers in the ship's cells and viceversa.
In the same year TARROS started its first international service: Vento del Golfo was deployed on the Italy/Greece trade.

1971: due to a conflictual situation with stevedores in Genova, generated by the employment of self sustained vessels, Tarros moved to La Spezia, where better port conditions allowed future development. The company started a service from La Spezia to Sardinia.

1972 and following years: the Group upgraded its own activities in La Spezia, with a new Ro-Ro quay, road/rail transport and Groupage service.
At the same time TARROS developed its network of intra Mediterranean links introducing new services to North Africa starting with Lybia (1975), later Tunisia and Malta (1978), Turkey and Egypt (1984)

In the 80s: Tarros developed a new inland activity in S. Stefano Magra through the subsidiary Nora Spa, specialized in container repairs, depot and container control (first example, in Italy, of an automated empty container depot).

From 1993…..: Tarros opened the new port terminal "Cantieri Navali del Golfo" designed, built and operated by Tarros and after denominated "Terminal del Golfo".

……and today: TARROS is not only a shipping line but a Multimodal Transport Operator (M.T.O.) working with directly controlled means: container ships, containers, lorries, block trains, depots and both inland and maritime terminals.
Operating 8 vessels, TARROS links up about 30 ports in 15 Mediterranean countries, shipping over about 150.000 full teus per year and employing about 400 people in the Med Sea.

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