The Port of Genoa is a major Italian seaport on the Mediterranean Sea. With a trade volume of 51.6 million tonnes, it is the busiest port of Italy by cargo tonnage and the second busiest in terms of twenty-foot equivalent units after the transshipment port of Gioia Tauro, with a trade volume of 2.1 million TEUs handled in 2012. The port is also used as a dismantling station and has been named as the port where the Costa Concordia is to be dismantled.