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The Antitrust starts a preliminary investigation in order to verify the presence of a trust between the companies Moby, Snav, Great the Navi Veloci and Sardinia Ferries
The prices for the transport fleeting da/per the Sardinia have quickly increase in average of the 90-110% regarding 2010
May 17, 2011

The Guarantor Authority of the Competition and Market (AGCM) has started a preliminary investigation regarding the societies Moby, Snav, Large Navi Veloci (GNV) and Forship (brand Sardinia Ferries) and of theirs controlling in order to verify if they have placed in being a restrictive understanding of the competition finalized to the co-ordinate increase of the prices for the transport fleeting da/per the Sardinia, prices that, second the outcomes of the lead preliminary analyses from the offices of the Antitrust - it has explained the Authority - have quickly increase in average of the 90-110% regarding 2010.

The provision of start of the preliminary investigation of the AGCM, that we publish below, is notified today in the course of inspections lead with the Special Nucleus Protection Markets of the Customs corps near the four societies object of the investigation, that they constitute the main active operators on the routes interested from the increases and - has remembered the AGCM - of it they represent a substantial part, not inferior to 75% in terms of frequencies and 60% in terms of passengers.

The preliminary investigation will have to verify in particular if the increase generalized and meaningful of the prices of the services of marine transport on the connections da/per Civitavecchia, Livorno and Genoa a/da Olbia-Gulf Aranci and Porto Torres in summery period 2011 is the result of a finalized understanding to avoid a correct one confronts competitive on these routes.

The AGCM has specified that the start of the investigation is decided to light of the numerous signallings arrived to the Authority from private citizens, associations of the consumers and from the Regions Sardinia and Liguria that denounced meaningful increments of the relative prices to summery period 2011.

The decision of the Antitrust is received with favor from the Liguria Region. The from Liguria regional city council member to the Transports, Enrico Vesco, than past weeks with the colleague of Tourism, Angelo Berlangieri had written a letter to the president of the AGCM Catricalà in order to place to its attention the problem of the increase of the rates of the ferries, has expressed "satisfaction for the participation of the guarantor of the competition, Antonio Catricalà, in response to our letter on the remarkable increases to the rates of the ferries for the practiced Sardinia of the next summer from some companies". "The answer of the guarantor to our letter - Vesco has said - has not been made to attend, the case is taken in consideration and is opened the preliminary investigation. To this point the auspice, sight the imminence of the summery season, is that our positions shared from other territorial truths, are genoese that Sardinian, they can be recognized and translate itself in a review of the rates. Moreover - it has added Vesco - we are moving also with the Sardinia Region in order to try to obtain a meaningful result on the front of the discouragement of the prices".

In the first letter sent from the city council members to the transports and tourism of the Liguria Region to Catricalà the presence of a trust came marked "that has been created between the companies that carry out the service of connection with the Sardinia that has seen the increase consisting of the prices for this summer". "On the contrary of the slid years, in which a race to the low-cost had happened in order to try to maintain to the lower prices - Vesco and Berlangieri had written - this year not has been no competition and the prices strongly are increased".



THE GUARANTOR AUTHORITY OF THE COMPETITION AND THE MARKET

IN ITS ASSEMBLY of 11 May 2011;

FELT the Reporter Professore Carla Bedogni Rabitti;

SEEN article 101 of the Treaty on the Operation of European Union (TFUE);

SEEN Regolamento n. 1/2003 of the Council on December 16, 2002, concerning the application of the rules of competition of which to article 101 and 102 of the TFUE;

SEEN the signallings reached between on 17 January and 11 May 2011 by private citizens, Altroconsumo, Camper van, Codacons, National Union Consumers, Association for the defense and guideline consumers, I want To live, Adiconsum, the Ministry of Infrastructures and the transports, the Sardinia Region and the Liguria Region;

SEEN the actions of the procedure;

CONSIDERED how much follows:

I. PARTI

1. Moby S.p.A. (below, Moby) is controlled with a quota 52.63% about from Honored Participation S.r.l. Moby is at the head of a mainly active group in the field of the marine transport of line of passengers and in the field of the marine transport of line of used rubberizing vehicles from road haulage enterprises that cure the shipment of goods in national within. In particular, Moby is active in the connections da/per the Sardinia and with the Elbano archipelago. Moby work, indirectly, also in the fields of the harbor tug, the towing offshore, the marine rescue and the services antifire and antipollution.
Moby controls the following societies: Lloyd Sardegna Compagnia di Navigazione S.r.l., San Cataldo S.p.A., Sicilian S.p.A. Rescues, Moby Lines Europe Gmbh.
From consolidated financial statement, it turns out that in the 2009 turnover realized by Moby in Italy it has been of about 250 million euros.

2. Large the Navi Veloci S.p.A. (below, GNV) is a society controlled jointly from Marinvest S.r.l. (below Marinvest) and from Associate Investor SGR S.p.A. (below IA), than work in the field of the marine transports of line of passengers and rubberized vehicles, let alone in the field of the organization and management of travels from cruise.
The turnover realized from GNV in 2008 has been little advanced to 310 million euros, realized almost exclusively in Italy.

3. SNAV S.p.A. (below, SNAV), controlled entirely from Marinvest, work in the marine transport almost exclusively of passengers on several routes inside of the Mediterranean, included the transport da/per the Sardinia.
The turnover realized from SNAV in Italy in 2008 has been of about 110 million euros.

4. Forship S.p.A. (below, Forship), controlled from the society by right French Lota Maritime S.A. (below, Lota) lend services of transport of people and means in the Mediterranean with the commercial brand "Corsica Ferries Sardinia Ferries", in particular da/per the Sardinia.
Forship manages moreover, near the harbour area of Savona-Go, fleeting a terminal dedicated to the traffic and goods for Ro-Ro ferries.
Forship has realized in Italy, in 2009, a turnover pairs to about 137 million euros.


II. THE FACT

a) The denunciations

5. In recent months the Authority has received numerous signallings in which the important and contextual increases are complained of the prices that would be introduced by the private operators who offer to the service of marine transport da/per the Sardinia in departure/arrival from the Italian peninsula. In particular, draft of the marine connections da/per Civitavecchia, Livorno and Genoa a/da Olbia-Gulf Aranci and Porto Torres.



1


The signalling has reached in date 19 January 2011 successively integrated in date 1° April 2011.


2


The signallings have reached in date 10 March 2011.


3


These last ones have sent to a combined signalling in date 9 March 2011.


4


The signalling has reached in date 11 February 2011 successively integrated in date 29 19 March and last April.


5


The Liguria Region has sent to a signalling reached in date 5 May 2011, the Sardinia Region a denunciation in date 4 February successively integrated several times last in date 19 April 2011.
6. The majority of the signallings is sent by private citizens; other denunciations come from associations of the consumers (Altroconsumo1, Adiconsum and National Association I want To live2, Adoc, Codacons, defended Movement of the citizen, National Union Consumers3). The Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports4 has many times over transmitted to the Authority the numerous signallings received from private citizens. Ulterior denunciations are introduced of the Sardinia Region and by the Region Liguria5.

7. All the signallings agree on the amplitude of the price increases, that they would turn out in average advanced to 60% (as found last from the Sardinia Region), with tips of 100% or the advanced ones (as complained from various denouncing, than in some cases they report of advanced increases also to 150%). Analogous percentages are brought back by numerous articles of print that they have dealt the issue in the past few months. Some denunciations complain, also, the generalized one and almost uniform to fail of the promotional offers applied from the majority of the companies in the last seasons.

8. The denunciations assume that the increases of the prices we are I yield of a coordination between the main active private operators on the routes da/per the Sardinia.

b) The increase of the prices in summery period 2011



6


Cfr. signallings and answers to the demands for information reached between March and May 2011.
9. By evidences today available6 it is emerged that the final prices of the services of fleeting transport of line are calculated, analogous to how much it happens in other sections of the tourist field (hotel, aerial transport, etc) with criteria of c.d. “revenue management” and such for which the final prices practiced to the consumers they depend on establish quotas conditions of the supply and demand at the moment of the reservation. Consequently, the final price of the transport can vary from day to day according to the values assumed from the various used parameters in order to take into consideration the various members of the service (number of passengers, place in cabin, place in seat, car to the continuation, animals, etc); of the date and the timetable previewed for the departure (eg. week days or weekend, lowland or peak season); of the state of the occupation of the spaces on board to the action of the reservation (eg. if still availability of cabins is elevated, the price for this service will be smaller).

10. The final price so constituted is integrated then by additional between which the bunker surcharge, that it reflects the course of the cost of the fuel, the harbour member of volatil price, costs for safety and burdens. From declarations of it prints, the recorded increments of price for summery period 2011 would be riconducibili, in particular, to the meaningful increase recorded from the price of the fuel.

11. It does not exist, therefore, a real accessible price list to the consumers, that it can be used in order to for a year confront the prices practiced between operators and to the other. Since, moreover, it confronts on the consolidated medium revenues between 2011 and 2010 they are not possible, they are elaborated, for every company, and for determined days of the months of june-August, esteem relatively to a hypothetical purchase of service of transport for two people with car to the continuation and accommodation (cabin) comprised all the eventual extra expenses (assurance, meal, expenses of agency, etc) to be confronted for a year to the other.

12. The first elaborations confirm a general increment of prices so as denounced. Regarding 2010, all the interested operators have practiced sensitive increases of the prices - of the order of the 90-110% in average regarding the year precedence - on the routes interested from the denunciations (marine connections da/per Civitavecchia, Genoa and Livorno a/da Olbia-Gulf Aranci and Porto Torres). In the plank who follows is brought back the variations of the applied medium increments in the 2011 from the single operators regarding the period precedence, as well as the average prices applied in the two periods of observation.


Table 1: I confront average prices 2010/2011 in value and %



Company


Average prices
2010


Average prices
2011


Variation %
of the prices
2011-2010
(with extra)


Forship
“Sardinia Ferries”


80-100€


140-160€


130-150%


Moby


110-130€


200-220€


90-110%


GNV


180-200€


250-270€


50-60%


SNAV


90-110€


190-210€


80-100%


Total


120-140€


190-210€


90-110%
Elaborations on data supplied from the Parts in response to demands for information on 24 February, 31 March and 22 April 2011.


III. THE APPRAISALS

a) The important markets

13. In the first place, it is observed that in the regarding cases understandings, the definition of the important market is essentially time to characterize the characteristics of the economic and legal context in which the possible coordination between concurrent enterprises is placed.

14. If of species, the presumed coordination between competitors signalling object interests the activity of marine transport of line of passengers through ferries and/or hydrofoils, with or without vehicles rubberized to the continuation, carried out from the operators interested on several drafts da/per the Sardinia. According to a consolidated guideline of the Authority, the service of marine transport of line of passengers, with or without vehicles rubberized to the continuation, that it commutes between two ports to frequent and regular cadences, anticipates characteristic such to characterize a market of the produced one distinguished regarding all the other modalities of marine transport of goods. As for the geographic dimension of the market, this is given by the single served draft or bundles of routes between ports considered sostituibili from the point of view of the question.

15. If of species, the important markets are characterized in relation to the overlap between the various operators interested on the interested routes and of the degree of sostituibilità between the ports. This saying, since in via preliminary matter the Sardinian ports of Olbia and Golfo Aranci can be considered sostituibili from the side of the question, to the aims of anticipates famous characterizes the following important markets: Civitavecchia-Olbia/Golfo Aranci, Genoa-Olbia, Livorno-Olbia/Golfo Aranci and Genoa/Port-Torres.

16. The following table report a first estimates of the market position of the operating presents in the important markets in 2010, is in terms of number of fleeting ships that lend the transport service (the frequency, understanding as ability indicator) are of transported passengers.


Table 2: Market shares of the operators interested in the important markets (frequencies, june-July 2010)



Important market


Moby


SNAV


GNV


Forship
“Sardinia Ferries”


Tirrenia


Civitavecchia-Olbia/Golfo Aranci


35-40%


25-30%





15-20%


15-20%


Torres Genoa-port


35-40%





40-45%





20-25%


Genoa-Olbia


45-50%


-


40-45%


-


10-15%


Livorno-Olbia/Golfo Aranci


55-60%








40-45%



Cfr. Elaborations AGCM on data transmitted from the parts in response to demands for information


Table 3: Market shares of the operators interested in the important markets (fleeting, june-July 2010)



Important market


Moby


SNAV


GNV


Forship
“Sardinia Ferries”


Tirrenia


Civitavecchia-Olbia/Golfo Aranci


35-40%


15-20%





10-15%


30-35%


Torres Genoa-port


35-40%





30-35%





30-35%


Genoa-Olbia


50-55%





40-45%





5-10%


Livorno-Olbia/Golfo Aranci


60-65%








35-40%



Cfr. Elaborations AGCM on data transmitted from the parts in response to demands for information

17. With regard to Tirrenia, it is observed that it is currently in course the process of privatization of the society. Marinvest, Honored Participation and Grimaldi Company of S.p.A Navigation has constituted, to end 2010, a common enterprise - the Italian Company of Navigation S.r.l. (below CIN) – to the aims of the presentation of a combined offer for the acquisition of Tirrenia. The three societies stop joint quotas in CIN.


b) The qualification of the fattispecie

18. The numerous signallings reached the Authority denounce meaningful increments of the prices on the services of marine transport da/per the Sardinia in summery period 2011. The lead preliminary analyses on dynamics of the prices of the operating private companies contextually on the important markets, appear to confirm a generalized increment of the prices practiced from such operators, estimated medium increment in the order of the 90-110% regarding the prices of the year precedence.

19. Sul point, is necessary to specify that the majority of the revenues is realized in the summery period; therefore, since a parallelism in the increases of the prices by all is observed active the private operators in the important markets, is considered reasonable that such operators have placed in being the aforesaid tariff increments in forecast of summery season 2011.

20. That premised one, is not possible to exclude that the increase of the prices recorded on the connections da/per the Sardinia is not alone yields of independent decisions, but is rather riconducibile to a coordination of the commercial conducts between market operators.

21. The interested companies, also to means print, have justified the increments of the prices introduced for summery season 2011, in particular, with the important increase of the price of the fuel. The entity of the increase would have been such to induce the companies to rethink also own politics of promotions, reducing the number of places available to reduced prices.
In merit it is observed that the translation to valley of objective increases of cost, in itself legitimate if I yield of independent conducts, shapes illicit a competitive one whereby is the result of a coordination of the parts. It is evidenced, among other things, than the same operators who distribute transport services da/per the Sardinia they are active also in other routes (between which for example connections with the Sicily) and that, on these, they would not seem to have equally transferred the aforesaid increments of cost on the final prices.

22. The lead cited ones - increase generalized and meaningful of the prices of the services of marine transport on the connections da/per Civitavecchia, Livorno and Genoa a/da Olbia-Gulf Aranci and Porto Torres in summery period 2011 - could therefore be the result of an understanding, as agreement and/or practical agreed, finalized to avoid a correct one I confront competitive on the aforesaid connections.

23. The understanding in its complex appears to integrate requirement of the consistency, considering that the enterprises involved in the illicit one represent the main active operators in the important markets and of it they represent a substantial part, not inferior to 75% in terms of frequencies and 60% in terms of transported passengers.

24. The understanding, therefore, is susceptible of examination according to article 101 of the TFUE.


c) The applicabilità of the communitarian right

28. The described conducts over are potentially suitable to prejudice the intracomunitario commerce and, therefore, they appear to integrate the ends of an infraction to article 101 of the TFUE.
It is considered that the understanding in question regards the services of marine transport for passengers da/per the Sardinia, that represents one of the main tourist destinations in the Mediterranean, operated from shipowners pertaining to groups of dimension is national that international.
Consequently, the fattispecie object of anticipates procedure, appearing suitable to bring prejudice to the commerce between Member States, must be estimated according to article 101 of the TFUE.

CONSIDERED, therefore, that the conducts over described, placed in being from Honored Participation, Moby, Marinvest, IA, GNV, SNAV, Lota and Forship “Sardinia Ferries”, they are susceptible to shape a restrictive understanding of the competition in the markets of the services of the marine transports for passengers, in violation of article 101 of the TFUE;


DELIBERATION


a) the start of the preliminary investigation, according to article 14 of the law n. 287/90, regarding the societies Onorato Partecipazioni S.r.l., Moby S.p.A., Marinvest S.p.A., Investitori Associati SGR S.p.A., Grandi Navi Veloci S.p.A., SNAV S.p.A., Lota Maritime S.A and Forship S.p.A., in order to assess the existence of violations of article 101 of the TFUE;

b) the fixation of the term of days sixty, passing from the notification of anticipates provision, for the exercise by the representatives lawyers of the Part, or of people from it delegates, the right of being felt, specifying that the demand for audition will have to reach the Agricultural and food- Direction “and Transports” of the Head office for competition of this Authority at least fifteen days before the expiration of the indicated term over;

c) that in charge of the procedure it is the Dott.ssa Stefania Di Girolamo;

d) that the actions of the procedure can be taken in vision near the Agricultural and food- Direction “and Transports” of the Head office for competition of this Authority from the lawyers representatives of the Part or from people from it delegated;

e) that the procedure must be concluded within on October 28, 2012.

Provision anticipates will be notified to the subjects interested and published in the bulletin of the Guarantor Authority of the Competition and the Market.

THE GENERAL SECRETARY
Luigi Fiorentino
THE PRESIDENT
Antonio Catricalà
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The ninth FREMM unit "Spartaco Schergat" delivered to the Italian Navy
The new edition of the Practical Manual of Maritime Traffic has been presented
Genoa
Written by Assagenti, it turns fifty
Container traffic at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles increased by 26.6% and 5.2% in the first quarter
Long Beach/Los Angeles
Trump's tariffs impact imminent
In the first three months of 2025, the port of Singapore handled 10.5 million containers (+5.8%)
Singapore
In weight, containerized traffic recorded a decrease of -1.4%
Regulations signed for LNG bunkering at Fincantieri shipyard in Genoa
Genoa
Define the methods of transferring fuel from ship to ship
Historic shipbuilding brands Uljanik and 3.Maj on the verge of extinction
Zagreb
The State confirms its intention to sell the shipbuilding activities at the two sites of Pula and Rijeka
Cambiaso Risso has completed the acquisition of the French Somecassur
Genoa
The transalpine company specializes in the insurance of super and mega yachts
New weekly train service between the port of Gioia Tauro and Verona
Joy Taurus/Verona
Operated by Medlog for the transport of refrigerated goods
EBRD looking for strategic partner for development of Moldovan river port of Giurgiulesti
London
International competition launched
SAILING LIST
Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
Turkish ports set new first-quarter cargo traffic record
Ankara
Historic peak of cargo imported from abroad
In the first quarter of 2025, freight traffic in the port of Taranto grew by +37.6%
Taranto
Increase of 854 thousand tons of solid bulk and 265 thousand tons of conventional goods
DEME buys Havfram, a company that installs offshore wind farms
Second Right/Washington
Transaction worth approximately 900 million euros
Rail transport of convoys for Rome Metro started from Reggio Calabria
Rome
Contract awarded by Hitachi Rail to Mercitalia Rail
In 2024, the volumes handled by Magli Intermodal Service decreased by -2%
Rezzato
Turnover stable
Yang Ming records first decline in turnover in March after 14 months of growth
Keelung/Taipei
Evergreen and WHL revenue growth continues
The European Commission has approved the acquisition of Germany's Schenker by Denmark's DSV
Brussels
The impact on competition in the markets in which the two companies operate is considered limited
Fincantieri - Kayo Agreement to Promote the Development of the Shipbuilding and Naval Industry in Albania
Trieste
Possible creation of a hub for shipbuilding and refitting in the region
Recent slight reduction in logistics costs for new factory vehicles
Brussels
Montaresi (AdSP Liguria Orientale) awarded with the "Port Oscar"
Miami
The event has reached its eighteenth edition
In the first three months of 2025, containers carried by OOCL vessels increased by +9.3%
Hong Kong
Revenues up +16.8%
The AdSP of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas wins in appeal against Zen Yacht
Joy Taurus
Company ordered to pay back rent
A large shipment of cocaine was seized in the port of Livorno
Leghorn
Two tons of drugs identified by Customs and Financial Police personnel
Navantia renews agreement with American cruise group Royal Caribbean
Miami
To date, the Cadiz shipyard has carried out maintenance, repair and refurbishment work on 45 of the group's ships.
Record cruise traffic expected in Italian ports this year
Miami
Cemar believes that growth will not stop even in 2026
HII-HHI Agreement to Accelerate US and South Korean Naval Production
National Harbor
The aim is to strengthen the naval industrial base of the two nations.
Panama Ports Company Accused of Violating Terms of Concession Agreement
Panama
Panama's Auditor General announced the filing of criminal charges
Colombo West International Terminal has become operational
Ahmedabad
It has a traffic capacity of 3.2 million TEUs
The conference "New sustainable marine fuels - Decarbonize Shipping" will be held in Genoa on Monday
Genoa
The new multifunctional border control structure PCF - PED/PDI Point completed in the port of Gioia Tauro
Joy Taurus
"Artificial Intelligence Comes to Port" Conference in Rome on Friday
Rome
It is promoted by the National Union of Port Enterprises
MSC Group's new cruise terminal inaugurated in Miami
Miami
It can accommodate three large ships at the same time
In February, traffic in the port of Ravenna increased by +2.1%
Ravenna
Bulk cargo increases, miscellaneous cargo declines
In 2024, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane recorded a net loss of -208 million euros
Rome
Revenues up by +11.7%. The group's freight transported increased thanks to the acquisition of Exploris
Port of Genoa, Ente Bacini requests new spaces and renewal of the concession
Genoa
Conference to celebrate the centenary of the company
The public meeting of the Italian Port Terminal Operators Association will be held in Rome on June 19th
Genoa
VARD to build offshore dive vessel for Dong Fang Offshore
Alesund/Trieste
The contract is worth 113.5 million euros
PORTS
Italian Ports:
Ancona Genoa Ravenna
Augusta Gioia Tauro Salerno
Bari La Spezia Savona
Brindisi Leghorn Taranto
Cagliari Naples Trapani
Carrara Palermo Trieste
Civitavecchia Piombino Venice
Italian Interports: list World Ports: map
DATABASE
ShipownersShipbuilding and Shiprepairing Yards
ForwardersShip Suppliers
Shipping AgentsTruckers
MEETINGS
The conference "New sustainable marine fuels - Decarbonize Shipping" will be held in Genoa on Monday
Genoa
It will take place at the headquarters of the Port Authority of Genoa
"Artificial Intelligence Comes to Port" Conference in Rome on Friday
Rome
It is promoted by the National Union of Port Enterprises
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Proposed 30% increase for port tariffs to be in phases, says Loke
(Free Malaysia Today)
Damen Mangalia Unionists Protest Friday Against Possible Closure
(The Romania Journal)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Relazione del presidente Nicola Zaccheo
Roma, 18 settembre 2024
››› File
Next week Italian ports will participate in Seatrade Cruise Global
Rome
Initiative brand: "CruiseItaly - One Country, Many Destinations"
MSC Group Cruise Terminal Officially Inaugurated in the Port of Barcelona
Barcelona
In 2027 it will be equipped with a cold ironing plant
Marcegaglia and Nova Marine Carriers form NovaMar Logistic joint venture
Lugano/Gazoldo of the Ippoliti
A general cargo ship will transport raw materials to the steel group's plants
Liebherr achieves record annual sales in the maritime and port crane segment
Bulls
Strong demand for offshore and container handling equipment
The annual conference "Programming, Operation and Management of Transport Networks" in Genoa
Genoa
It is dedicated to the transport and mobility sector
Last year, 656 ships underwent repair work in Greece
Piraeus
Increase of five units compared to 2023
Port of La Spezia, cruise ship docking simulations completed at Garibaldi West pier
The Spice
Assagenti conference on the future of the profession of maritime agent and broker
Genoa
It will be held tomorrow in Genoa
Stena Line presents a project for a ro-ro vessel capable of reducing energy consumption by at least 20%
Gothenburg
Introduced most of the innovative technologies currently available
Francesco Beltrano is the new general secretary of Uniport
Rome
He takes over from Paolo Ferrandino, who will continue to collaborate as a consultant
Saipem awarded new contracts in Middle East and Guyana
Milan
The total value of the orders is approximately 720 million dollars.
Conference in Genoa for the centenary of Ente Bacini
Genoa
The company was established on 19 February 1925
Interporto Bologna Board of Directors Renewed
Bentivoglio
Stefano Caliandro Appointed President. Loss of 1.7 million euros in 2024
NYK invests 76 billion yen in NYK Energy Ocean Corporation
Tokyo
The newco has taken over the activities of ENEOS Ocean
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