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Sentence of the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT for the Apulia on the resource introduced from Bari Porto Mediterraneo
Partially it is rejected, partially received and partially declared improcedibile. Satisfaction of the Harbour Authority of Bari
May 17, 2011

With today's sentence, that we publish below, the Regional administrative court for the Apulia of Bari has partially rejected, partially received and partially declared improcedibile the resource proposed from the society Bari Porto Mediterraneo Srl (BPM) against the Harbour Authority of Bari and regarding consortile society G.S.A. (Group Associate Services) for the cancellation of the provisions that have lead to the confidence of the management of the marine stations of the port of Bari to the G.S.A.

The Harbour Authority of Bari has received with satisfaction the sentence emphasizing that confirmation legitimacy of the acts of the agency. "The only received profile, to which the moreover already Harbour Authority it had lend ottemperanza until from December 2009 - it has specified port the authority - was relative to the immediate restitution of the destined areas to the services at call individual, that they could instead continue to be stopped from BPM Srl until the accomplishment of the contests. Such profile is currently insignificant as in last month of April the nonperformance of BPM to the obligation to pay the pacifically which had canon of concession it has involved the forfeiture of the same one from the transitory management".

The harbour agency of Bari has concluded considering that "it gives back it of the areas to the Harbour Authority, that is supplying to the procedures to public evidence for the relative confidence, appears anyway online, also with the interest of the same Bari Porto Mediterraneo, than finds in liquidation and that it would be burdened of the relative costs to an economically disadvantageous management, to the detriment of the corporate creditors".





N. 00744/2011 REG.PROV.COLL.

N. 01929/2009 REG.RIC.



ITALIAN REPUBLIC

IN THE NAME OF ITALIAN PEOPLE

The Regional administrative court for Puglia

(Section Before)


it has pronounced anticipates

SENTENCE


on the resource number of general 1929 of 2009, integrated from reasons added, proposed registry by Bari Porto Mediterraneo s.r.l., represented and defended from the avv. Vincenzo Caputi Jambrenghi, with address which elected near its study in Bari, via Abbot Eustasio, 5;

against


Harbour authority of Bari, represented and defended from the avv. Ignazio Fulvio Mezzina, with address which elected near the registered office in Bari, Christopher Columbus large square, 1;

regarding


G.S.A. Group Associate Services consortile society, represented and defended from the avv. Domenico Colella, with address which elected near its study in Bari, via Quintino Sella, 120;

and with the participation of


to adiuvandum:
Giorgia Giuseppina Barbara D' Amelio, Antonio Lopez, Nicola Gelao, Oronzo Matarrese, Luigia Sabatelli Melibeo, Caterina Angiulli, Francesca Minutillo, Brunella Aurisicchio, Pietro Munno, represented and defended from the avv. Antonio De Feo, with address which elected near its study in Bari, Vittorio Emanuele course, 143;

for the cancellation


of the deliberation of the Harbour Committee n. the 9 on October 30, 2009 and of all actions attached to it (partially not known), between which the lines of address for the location of the new modalities of management of the marine stations and the services of support to the passengers, the outline of which capitulated ban of contest and special, the outline of decree on the division of the rights for burdens of security and other services of general interest;
of the ban of contest sent for the publication in the G.U.U.E in date 4 November 2009, of capitulated special and all the constituent actions the lex specialis;
of the note of the Harbour Authority of Bari prot. 7117-U/09 on November 3, 2009;
of the definitive award, arranged with deliberation of the President of the Harbour Authority of Bari n. 61 on April 15, 2010, and of all the minutes of contest, let alone of the contract stipulated with G.S.A. Group Associate Services consortile society;
Seen the added and relative resource, reasons the attached ones;
Seen the defensive memories;
Visas all the actions of the cause;
Reporter in the public audience of the day 9 March 2011 Dr. Savio Picone and hearings for the parts the defenders avv.ti Vincenzo Caputi Jambrenghi, Ignazio Fulvio Mezzina, Domenico Colella, Antonio De Feo;
Considered and considered in fact and right how much follows.

FACT


Bari Porto Mediterraneo s.r.l appeals the actions indicated in epigraph, with which the Harbour Authority of Bari has at first approved of the ban of contest and successively arranged the award to the controinteressata G.S.A. Group Associated Services, for the triennial concession of the marine stations "San Vito" and "Terminal Cruises" of the Port of Bari and the services of support to the passengers "to indifferenziato and indivisible use", establishing also the transitory destination of other harbour structures and the services "at call individual" and of the other having assets gainful potentialities (marine agencies, commercial exercises, parkings, assets and removable systems of property of the recurrent one, marine Station auxiliary).

It so deduces rubricati reasons:

A) in relation to the decision to accelerate the terms for the participation: violation of the sentences of which to the sentence of the Council of State n. 4812 of 2009; violation of the norms and the regulating principles the narrow procedure accelerated (art. 6 of the law n. 84 of the 1994 and articles. 70 and 227 of the d. lgs. n. 163 of 2006; violation of the norms of the Ec treaty in topic not discrimination, publicity and transparency; violation of the autovincolo and the principle of good course; sidetracking and excess to be able under multiple profiles;

B) in relation to the decision to immediately turn out the recurrent society from the management of the services "at call individual": violation of the sentences of which to the sentence of the Council of State n. 4812 of 2009; violation of the norms and the regulating principles the confidence of the contracts and the concessions; violation of the autovincolo and the principle of good course; sidetracking and excess to be able under multiple profiles;

C) in relation to the decision to separate the concession of the services of support to the passengers "to "at call individual" indifferenziato and indivisible use" from those: violation of the sentences of which to the sentence of the Council of State n. 4812 of 2009; violation of the norms and the regulating principles the confidence of the contracts and the concessions; violation of the law n. 84 of 1994 and the regulations approved of with d.m. 14 November 1994; violation of art. the 3 of the r.d n. 2440 of 1923 and art. the 37 of the r.d n. 827 of 1924, violation of art. the 36 cod. nav., violation of the principle of good course, sidetracking and excess to be able under multiple profiles;

D) in relation to the type of demanded camerale registration from the contest ban: violation of the articles. 41 and 42 of the d. lgs. n. 163 of 2006, violation of the norms and the principles in topic of qualification for the confidence of the contracts and the concessions; violation of the principle of good course; sidetracking and excess to be able under multiple profiles.

The Harbour Authority has been formed of Bari and G.S.A. Group Associate Services consortile society, eccependo the inammissibilità of the resource and asking of in any case the refusal.

The named dependent of Bari Porto Mediterraneo s.r.l in epigraph have deposited action of participation to adiuvandum.

The precautionary request partially is received with decree of this Section n. 791 on December 16, 2009, that it has suspended the effectiveness of the deliberation n. 9 on October 30, 2009, in the part in which it arranges the release from on January 1, 2010 of the marine agencies, of the commercial exercises, the parkings, the assets and removable systems of property of recurrent and the marine Station the auxiliary.

At last, the parts have carried out conclusive defenses in sight of the public audience on March 9, 2011, in which the cause is passed in decision.

STRAIGHT


1. Shortly, the facts.

With deliberation n. 1 on February 19, 2009, the Harbour Authority of Bari has cancelled in self-defence, because illegitimate, own precedence deliberations n. 5 on June 16, 2004 and n. 6 on July 28, 2004, having to object the twenty-year direct confidence, today's recurrent Bari Porto Mediterraneo s.r.l., of the management of the marine station, the terminal cruises and the services to the passengers.

In synthesis, the defect is ravvisato in the fact that the confidence to Bari Porto Mediterraneo s.r.l. (mixed society, of which the Harbour Authority still it stops 30% of the capital) is not preceded by a real contest for the choice of the private associates, but only by a public warning for the manifestations of interest, lacking not only in punctual criteria of chosen of the associates, but above all of the necessary marking out of the activity to carry out and the duration of the confidence.

In the same date, the President of the Harbour Authority has adopted the provision n. 1237, with which the restitution of the assets has intimato to the society object of the concession within ten days, beyond to a directed series of prescription to the immediate interruption of the carried out services.

The resource proposed from adverse Bari Porto Mediterraneo s.r.l the aforesaid actions integrally is rejected by Terza Sezione of this Court, with sentence n. 440 of 2009, partially reformed in appeal from the Sixth Section of the Council of State, with decision n. 4812 of 2009.

This last one, in particular, has confirmed legitimacy of the cancellation in self-defence decided from the Authority, but it has vice versa received the doglianze of the society in order to the presidential action n. 1237 on February 19, 2009 (erroneously considered absorbed of refusal in the judgment first degree).

The order of almost immediate release of the assets and the activities contrasts, second the appeal decision, with the principles of reasonableness and proportionality, considered that the cancellation compulsory of the confidence is arranged by the Authority to the aim to proceed through or more contests that they open to the competition, and in order not to assume in via direct the management of the harbour structures and the services.

Neither the immediacy of the release of the assets is tax from the self-defence provision, than nothing it has found with regard to, and indeed, according to the appeal judge, the possibility to attend the subentro of the new subjects is compatible with the typical effects of the cancellation compulsory, held also account that in some way the art. 21-nonies of the law n. 241 of 1990 precludes to adapt the temporal effectiveness of the action of self-defence to the concrete situation to all purposes and effects, than if of species it demands the subentro of other entrepreneurs characterized with or more contests to public evidence, this also in order to protect, in more effective way, the confidence ingendered in the beneficiary of the cancelled action and the certainty of the legal relationships in being.

With the cited one it pronounces, therefore, the Council of State has, on one side, definitively confirmed legitimacy of the cancellation in self-defence of the today's twenty-year concession to the recurrent one and, from the other, it has cancelled the provision of the President of the Harbour Authority, making some to come down “… the obligation conformativo for the Authority to program timely the location of the new modalities of management, proceeding with public contest and to plan I succeed to BPM of the new subject or the new subjects, being able meantime exercising every control on the activity of suitable BPM and also to dictate prescription to avoid establishing itself of incompatible relationships with the transitory character ofthe activity of BPM”.

2. With the resource under investigation, Bari Porto Mediterraneo s.r.l appeals the deliberation of the Harbour Committee n. 9 on October 30, 2009 and all the attached actions to it, between which the lines of address for the location of the new modalities of management of the marine stations and the services of support to the passengers, the ban of contest and the special capitulated one, the outline of decree on the division of the rights for burdens of security and other services of general interest.

Esperita the contest (which the recurrent society has participated in a.t.i with Glossy s.p.a and the Schiavone Salvatore & C. s.n.c., classifying itself fourth), definitively is adjudicated to the controinteressata G.S.A. Group Associate Services the triennial concession of the marine stations “San Vito” and “Terminal Cruises” and of the services of support to the passengers “to indifferenziato and indivisible use”, with deliberation burdened by means of added reasons and about to bastardy derivative.

3. Preliminarily, it goes on December 16, 2009 declared inadmissible the action of participation to adiuvandum deposited in occasion of the Council Chamber from some employee of Bari Porto Mediterraneo s.r.l. (Of Amelio and others, listed in epigraph), it is for the circumstance of its omitted notification to all the parts of the judgment, considering that the jurisprudence has constantly considered the inammissibilità of an action of participation in cause contained in a simple memory not notified to the counterparts (cfr. Cons. It are, sez. V, 25 February 1997 n.199), is because in it deducted new and various reasons from those contents in the main resource come, faces irritualmente to widen the object of the judgment (cfr., between many, REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT Latium, sez. II, 19 February 2001 n. 1301; REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT Campania, Naples, sez. V, 13 june 2000 n. 2063).

4. Passing to the merit, it must be proceeded with order to the examination of the censorships advanced from the recurrent one, that they reach distinguished aspects of the provisions appealled (from a part: the ban of contest and the award of the services “to indifferenziato and indivisible use”; from the other, the transitory regulation of the services “at call individual”).

4.1. Beginning from first of the profiles in dispute, it is groundless and it goes rejected to the reason sub A), with which recurrent part the bastardy complains of the abbreviation of the terms of the narrow procedure, indetta from the Harbour Authority with the ban sent for the publication in the G.U.U.E in 4 date November 2009.

Considering the motivation of the deliberation appealled in its complex, the considerations carried out from the recurrent one are lacking in importance on the allegated imputable nonperformances to Bari Porto Mediterraneo s.r.l., that they would have competition to justify the choice of the accelerated procedure.

While the thesis of the recurrent one is lacking in virtue second which the concessorio title, cancelled in self-defence from the Harbour Authority, would conserve effectiveness in ossequio to how much statuito from the Council of State. It must in fact exclude that the deliberations of confidence of the 2004 are in some way survivors to the exercise of the administrative self-defence that is cherish temporary effectiveness. The deliberation n. 1 on February 19, 2009, than also for such part has exited undamaged from the impugnative proposed in front of this Court and to the Council of State, it arranged with extreme clarity, among other things, own the caducazione of the precedence deliberations n. 5 on June 16, 2004 and n. 6 on July 28, 2004, having to object the twenty-year concession to today's recurrent Bari Porto Mediterraneo s.r.l of the management of the marine station, the terminal cruises and the services to the passengers, let alone the caducazione of the formal action of state property concession n. 3/2004.

Anyway, the abbreviation of the term to fifteen days was reported to the single presentation of the participation questions, to the aims of the pre-qualification, phase that Bari Porto Mediterraneo s.r.l has succeeded to exceed without obstacles. The contest, moreover, has seen to be confronted four competitors, sicché must exclude that the acceleration has in concrete terms precluded the development of confronts competitive.

It is true that, second a general principle applicable also to the procedures of concession of goods and services publics, the Administration is held to giving account of the urgency reasons that also justify the reduction of the terms, be a matter themselves always of the exercise of a discretionary directly incident on the order of contest and potentially detrimental power for the position of the enterprises of the field interested to the confidence (cfr. REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT Campania, Naples, sez. I, 21 june 2005 n. 8391).

But in this case, to warning of the College, the justification of the resource to the accelerated procedure (than law to p. 8 of the contest ban) are consistent and immune from the defects denounced from the recurrent one.

The Harbour Authority in fact has decided to reduce the terms for the presentation of the questions, in consideration of dragging on of the economic prejudices legacies to the transitory phase, turning out from the cited sentence of the Council of State n. 4812 of 2009, to the declared one fine to achieve in faster times the best contractual conditions and economic offers from the new affidatario of the services.

The persistence of a temporary management, as a result of the cancellation in self-defence of the illegitimate precedence direct confidence of the services, in itself represents sure an endowed foundation of and manifest importance, such to justify the abbreviation of the contest procedure.

How much said the infondatezza of the censorship is descendant of.

4.2. Equally groundless it is the reason sub C), with which Bari Porto Mediterraneo s.r.l contests the assumed managerial choice from the wide illustrated Harbour Authority and in the deliberation n. 9 on October 30, 2009, that is to say the separation of the services of support to the passengers “to indifferenziato and indivisible use” (adjudicated to the G.S.A. Group Associated Services, with the actions appealled here) from those “at call individual” having puts up gainful potentialities (marine agencies, commercial, parkings, catering), destined exercises to being entrusted with or more next contests.

In the premise of the deliberation (p. 3), the decision is justified by considerations on the economic convenience and the quality of the services.

The recurrent one, in truth, seems to shade the suspicion that also in future the structures used after services “at call individual” will be granted in use from the Harbour Authority without the respect of the rules of the public evidence, but a lot constitutes an affirmation lacking in reply, since the deliberation n. 9 of the 2009 are limited, under such profile, to approve of the ban of contest for the being remained indivisible services.

The infondatezza of the censorship moreover is confirmed by the next events, documented in proximity of the public audience from the defense of the Harbour Authority. This last one in fact has given course, own in the first months of 2011, to the procedures of contest for the allocation of the relative concessions to the destined premises to the marine agencies, to the commercial exercises, the parkings.

For the remainder, the disputes articulated from recurrent in order to the pretension the irrationality of the separation between the indivisible services and the mainly gainful services involgono profiles of mere opportunity of the administrative action, confined in the removed sphere of the merit and to the union of the administrative judge.

The resource, for such part, must therefore be rejected.

4.3. The reason is vice versa improcedibile sub D), with which p is censured the forecast of the contest ban (. 6), relative to the prescribed camerale registration for the participation.

Bari Porto Mediterraneo s.r.l in fact is admitted to the narrow procedure (in a.t.i with other enterprises) and, for such profile, he does not have interest to cultivate the impugnativa.

4.4. At last, confirming already the highly summarizedly expressed warning in the precautionary phase, it must be received the reason sub B), turned adverse the deliberation n. 9 on October 30, 2009, in the part in which she on January 1, 2010 arranges that to the recurrent society abandonments within the management of the marine agencies, of the commercial exercises, the parkings, the assets and removable systems of its property and of the marine Station auxiliary.

The immediate riappropriazione arranged from the Harbour Authority does not turn out, in fact, justified from those requirements of restoration of the legality, that they are placed made up of the cancellation in self-defence of the twenty-year concession in favour of the recurrent one and that they are judged deserving of protection from the Judge of appeal (sees the cited sentence n. 4812 of 2009 of the Council of State), in sight of the necessary opening to the competition of the harbour services by means of or more contests to public evidence.

And indeed, falling in contraddittorietà and sidetracking, with the appealled deliberation the Harbour Authority of it decides the contextual riattribuzione directed to the sub-concessionaires who currently benefit some, so placing in the nothing (at least in immediate) the legitimate requests of restoration of the competition that had induced it to cancel in self-defence the precedence twenty-year direct confidence.

Own the decision of appeal many times over recalled had clarified that the immediacy of the release of the assets is not at all tax from the self-defence provision, than nothing has found with regard to, and indeed, the conservation of the existing management in the blackberries of the subentro of the new subjects is compatible with the typical effects of the cancellation compulsory, considered that the art. 21-nonies of the law n. 241 of 1990 allows to adapt the temporal effectiveness of the action of self-defence to the concrete situation to all purposes and effects.

If of species, they will have to subentrare in it I use of the assets and in the management of the services to the user other entrepreneurs characterized with or more contests to public evidence, and until that moment it must find adequate protects the today's confidence ingendered in the recurrent one, not being to you appreciable reasons in order to allow with the Harbour Authority of riappropriare itself of the structures in order to only reassign them to out of the rules of the competition.

For said how much, the position of the recurrent society must be held firm until the effective conclusion of the procedures of contest for the confidence of the assets and the harbour services “at call individual”.

The deliberation n. 9 on October 30, 2009 are cancelled partially here, whereby arrange (pagg. 7 and 8, points from a) to f) of the device) that the recurrent society abandonments within on January 1, 2010 the management of the marine agencies, the commercial exercises, the parkings, the assets and removable systems of its property and of the marine Station auxiliary.

5. The trial-like expenses can be integrally compensated, seen the mutual soccombenza.

P.Q.M.


The Regional administrative court for the Apulia (Section Before) definitively pronouncing on the resource, as in proposed epigraph, partially receives it, in the senses of which in motivation, partially he rejects it and partially he declares improcedibile to it.

It declares inadmissible the action of participation of Of Amelio and others.

Compensated expenses.

It orders that sentence anticipates is executed by the administrative authority.

So decided in Bari in the Council Chamber of the day 9 March 2011 with the participation of the magistrates:

Corrado Allegretta, President
Giuseppina Adamo, Councilman
Savio Picone, Legal secretary, Drafter


THE DRAFTER

THE PRESIDENT


DEPOSITED IN SECRETARIAT

The 17/05/2011

THE SECRETARY

(Art. 89, Co. 3, cod. proc. amm.)

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The decline was limited by increased oil traffic in the Vado harbor. Ferry traffic dropped 9.9%.
Trump nominates Laura DiBella as chair of the Federal Maritime Commission.
Washington
The nomination of Robert Harvey as commissioner of the federal agency has also been forwarded to the Senate.
Genoa's new dam: a modification has been approved to allow for completion of work by the end of 2027.
Genoa
Phase A and Phase B works will be carried out rather than sequentially
Assiterminal, simplify and standardize dredging procedures to restore the operational competitiveness of ports.
Taranto Recommends: The Regasification Plant Would Promote the Port's Revitalization
Taranto
Melucci: a lifeline for the entire port system and for our city's economic growth.
Cargo and cruise traffic in eastern Sicily ports is on the rise
Catania
In the container segment, an increase of +27.9% was recorded
FS Logistix and Lineas form joint venture to manage the Antwerp Mainhub Terminal
Antwerp
Rail services between Antwerp and Milan expected to increase
Attack on a product tanker in the Red Sea
Southampton
A missile fell near the ship which suffered no damage
Sea trials have been completed for the new GNV Virgo ro-pax vessel.
Genoa
It will be GNV's first liquefied natural gas ship
In the first half of the year, Singamas' container sales decreased by -10%.
Hong Kong
The average selling price dropped by -3.8%
The new two-masted ro-ro ship Neoliner Origin will arrive in Livorno tomorrow.
Vado Ligure
It has a capacity of 1,200 linear meters of rolling stock
The refinancing of the Setramar group's capital structure has been completed.
Ravenna
Merli: a crucial step in our growth journey
Liguori's term as head of the Trieste Port Authority has been extended.
Rome
Confirmed in the role of extraordinary commissioner of the institution
Agreement to complete electrification work on the docks at the port of Gioia Tauro
Gioia Tauro
The 70 million euro investment to complete the project has been confirmed.
A Maersk delegation at the Grendi Group's container terminal in Cagliari's Porto Canale.
Milan
At the centre of the debate is the development of traffic towards North Africa
Port of Livorno: Protests over Gaza must not block operations.
Livorno
The members of the Partnership Body highlighted the need for it to be accessible to all vessels
Geodis appoints Maurizio Bortolan as CEO for Italy
Milan
It will coordinate the three business lines Contract Logistics, Freight Forwarding and Road Transport
GNV, agreement with Sicilian terminal operator Portitalia is positive.
Genoa
The company specified that the aim was exclusively to temporarily supplement the tariffs.
Two days of work with ESPO in Rome on the Mediterranean and European ports
Rome
Meetings organized by Assoporti
In 2024, 112 million counterfeit items were seized in the European Union.
Brussels
Record estimated value of 3.8 billion euros
Strikes and protests in ports, request for information from the Guarantor
Rome
Request for information from prefects, port authorities, and port authorities
Danaos Corporation has ordered two 7,165 TEU containerships from Dalian Shanhaiguan.
Athens
They will be taken into delivery in the third quarter of 2027
In the second quarter, freight traffic on the Austrian rail network fell by -1.4%.
Vienna
Only domestic traffic is growing
ALS (FBH Group) has acquired 80% of Trans World Shipping and Moda Express of USA.
Rozzano
The two companies have 500 employees and are active in Italy, France, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Circle's revenue increased by 62.1% in the first half of 2025
Milan
Net profit of over 1.0 million euros (+1.8%)
A Ukrainian delegation hosted by the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority
Livorno
Cooperation in the field of training and safety at work in ports
The EIB is financing Phase A of Genoa's new breakwater with €300 million.
Luxembourg
The total investment is 937 million euros
This summer, GNV ships carried 1.7 million passengers (+9%)
Valencia
In the next few days the company will take delivery of "GNV Virgo", the first LNG-powered vessel
The project for the expansion, safety improvements, and extraordinary maintenance of the port of Pozzallo has been presented.
Pozzallo
It provides for the construction of the breakwater arm
Fincantieri delivers the new Star Princess cruise ship to Princess Cruises
Monfalcone
It has a gross tonnage of 177,800 tons and a capacity of 4,300 passengers.
A seminar on the new law on interports will be held in Milan on October 2nd.
Milan
It is organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Padua
Filt Cgil calls on port administrators and businesses to join the action against the Palestinian massacre.
Rome
This burden – the union highlighted – cannot be placed solely on the shoulders of dock workers.
The agreement between the Italian Merchant Marine Academy Foundation and the NATO Center in La Spezia has been renewed.
Genoa
The collaboration signed in 2023 has been confirmed
Fischer & Rechsteiner and Gimax International acquire BCUBE's Freight Forwarding business.
Genoa
The completion of the transaction is expected in the next few days
Fermerci outlines a dramatic scenario for the European rail freight transport sector
Rome
Rizzi: There is a real risk of a shift towards exclusively road transport.
Eni completes the sale of a 30% stake in the Baleine project in Ivory Coast to Vitol.
San Donato Milanese
The field was discovered in 2021 and production started in 2023
Sogedim opens a new branch in Modena
Mesero
Initially, the activity will be dedicated exclusively to UK export traffic and will then extend to other European markets.
The new PCTC Grande Svezia has joined the Grimaldi Group's fleet.
Naples
It has a maximum capacity of 9,000 ceu
The Cagliari City Council approves its opinion on the Sardinian Ports Development Plan.
Cagliari
Green light unanimously
The railway sector contributes 1.4% of the European Union's GDP.
Brussels
Study commissioned by CER
In the port of Naples, the Coast Guard has detained the bulk carrier Tanais Dream.
Naples
Serious irregularities found on board
Agreement to accelerate the implementation of robotics in Fincantieri's production processes
Trieste
It was signed with the Friulian Idea Prototipi
Sergio Liardo is the new general commander of the Port Authority Corps - Coast Guard
Rome
He takes over from Admiral Nicola Carlone
DBA to supply new Terminal Operating System for Georgia's Batumi Port
Villorba
The project includes all phases of development, testing and operational testing
Attack on a ship in the Gulf of Aden
Portsmouth
The captain reported hearing an impact in the water and an explosion
SAILING LIST
Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
Danilo Ricci has been appointed managing director of Tarros Line.
La Spezia
He has held various positions in Italy and abroad within the group
Permanent discussion table between Confindustria Nautica and Federagenti
Genoa
This is provided for in an agreement signed today in Genoa
In the first half of 2025, cruise traffic in Italian ports grew by +6%
Venice
The twelfth edition of Italian Cruise Day will be held in Catania on October 24th.
SAL Heavy Lift buys two semi-submersible vessels from Pan Ocean
Hamburg
They were built in 2008 and 2012
30% of Sangritana Cargo will be acquired by the Marche-based company Transadriatico
The Eagle
The sale will be completed in the next few days
The eighth edition of "A Sea of Switzerland" will be held in Lugano on October 6th.
Lugano
Forum on economic and logistical integration between Ligurian ports, the Northwest manufacturing area, and Switzerland
DEME orders new cable-laying vessel from Singapore-based PaxOcean
Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht
It will be built in the Chinese shipyard of Zhoushan
Assoporti will meet at RemTech EXPO 2025 to discuss the green transition in Italian ports.
Ferrara
The Smart Ports Award was awarded to three Port System Authorities
The first shipment of Syrian oil in 14 years arrives at the port of Trieste.
London
Part of the cargo - S&P Global Commodity Insights reports - was unloaded at the Sardinian terminal of Sarroch
In August, freight traffic in the port of Taranto grew by +20.3%
Taranto
The ferry "Drea" was also rejected by the Apulian port, where however it is temporarily stopped
Container traffic at the Port of Los Angeles remained stable in August.
Los Angeles
Volumes expected to decline in the remainder of 2025
Meeting between the port authorities of Jacksonville and Livorno
Livorno
Among the objectives, to start one or more direct services between the two ports
Italian State Railways and ENAC sign an agreement for the use of drones in infrastructure monitoring.
Rome
They will also be used to fly over sections of the railway and road network that would otherwise be difficult to monitor.
A.SPE.DO, the port of La Spezia is essential to ensuring employment, development, and a future for the local economy.
La Spezia
Landolfi: We cannot afford to underestimate its value.
The MIT meets with the heads of the Italian AdSPs
Rome
Meeting on the government's strategic vision for the sector and port reform
Yang Ming orders Hanwha Ocean Co. to build seven 15,880 TEU container ships
Keelung
They will be delivered between 2028 and 2029
Over 40 expressions of interest have been received for the development of the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk.
Kiev
Today the first meeting of the tender commission
The first commercial ship is expected at the public dock in Largo Trattaroli in Ravenna.
Ravenna
The car carrier "AICC Huanghu" is coming soon
Container traffic at the Port of Long Beach decreased by 1.3% last month.
Long Beach
Empty containers are increasing. Full containers are decreasing.
Assiterminal's Terminal Road Show is starting
Genoa
Cognolato: We want to strengthen our ties with local communities and territories.
Assoporti, the Italian ports' cruise offerings presented at the Seatrade Europe fair.
Hamburg
Giampieri: We are leaders in the Mediterranean area and in Europe
Commander Claudio Tomei, USCLAC president from 2012 to 2024, has passed away.
Viareggio
His strong commitment to improving the working conditions of Italian seafarers
In the first quarter of 2025, cargo traffic in Greek ports grew by +1.4%
Piraeus
Passengers down by -1.1%
HD Hyundai Samho Orders Four New Container Ships
Seoul
Order worth approximately 468 million dollars
Trieste: Fraudulent bankruptcy in the shipbuilding sector
Trieste
Investigation into a company based in Palermo
Container traffic in the port of Hong Kong fell by 7.4% in August.
Hong Kong
In the first eight months of 2025 the decline was -3.8%
BigLift Shipping and CY Shipping order two additional heavy lift vessels
Amsterdam
Order placed at Chinese shipyard Jing Jiang Nanyang Shipbuilding Co.
Container traffic at the port of Singapore continued to decline in August
Singapore
Total volume of goods increased by +1.1%
The Charthage ferry was placed under administrative detention in the port of Genoa
Genoa
A Coast Guard inspection found numerous deficiencies
Disney Cruise Line's largest ship's debut delayed by three months
Lake Buena Vista
Construction delays force the maiden voyage to be postponed until March 10th.
Shell to supply liquefied biomethane to Hapag-Lloyd containerships
Hamburg
Agreement effective immediately
Andrea Zoratti has been appointed general manager of Hub Telematica
Genoa
The company is controlled by Assagenti and Spediporto
Jotun and Messina sign agreement to improve the environmental and commercial performance of ships.
Genoa
The "Jolly Rosa" vessel will use the Hull Skating Solutions solution
PSA Genova Pra' announces the hiring of 25 people dedicated to container handling.
Genoa
Ferrari: International markets have changed profoundly
CMA CGM will not apply surcharges for new US taxes on Chinese vessels and Chinese services
Marseille
The rates announced by the USTR in April will apply from October 14th.
South Korean HJ Shipbuilding wins orders for four 8,850 TEU containerships
Busan
Orders with a total value of approximately 461 million dollars
Conference: "Waiting and Delays in Road Transport: Logistics in Check"
Genoa
Organized by Trasportounito, it will be held on September 26th in Genoa
GNV has inaugurated a new office in Barcelona
Barcelona
The company currently has 52 employees throughout Spain.
Port of Trieste: EU funding for two new projects
Trieste
Resources with a total value of 1.7 million euros
Filt Cgil, the Flotilla incident is serious. Dockworkers are ready to mobilize.
Rome
Union announces action if aid is not allowed to reach Gaza
Stena Line to buy Latvian port operator Terrabalt
Gothenburg
It handles rolling stock, bulk cargo, and general cargo traffic in the port of Liepaja.
In the first eight months of 2025, container traffic in the port of Gioia Tauro grew by +10.6%
Gioia Tauro
2,912,943 TEUs were handled
Meyer Turku begins construction of Royal Caribbean's fourth "Icon"-class cruise ship
Miami/Turku
It will be delivered in 2027
More than one in ten maritime shipments has shortages
Washington
This is what a report by the World Shipping Council has revealed, highlighting the safety risks
Last July, traffic in the port of Ravenna increased by +3.8%
Ravenna
In the first seven months of 2025, growth was +5.4%
In the first quarter of 2025, freight traffic in Belgian ports fell by -3.2%.
Brussels
Landings down 1.3% and embarkations down 5.4%
Product tanker High Fidelity rescues 38 migrants on a drifting dinghy
Rome
Intervention in the south of the island of Crete
GES and RINA sign agreement to develop a prototype of a new hydrogen battery
Rovereto/Genoa
PSA's second phase of container terminal at Mumbai Port inaugurated
Singapore
Annual traffic capacity will increase to 4.8 million TEUs
The conference "EU ETS - Perspectives and Opportunities for Decarbonization in the Maritime Sector" will be held in Palermo.
Rome
It will be held on September 18th and 19th
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
A seminar on the new law on interports will be held in Milan on October 2nd.
Milan
It is organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Padua
The eighth edition of "A Sea of Switzerland" will be held in Lugano on October 6th.
Lugano
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Korean Firms Reassess U.S. Investments After Mass Immigration Raid
(The Korea Bizwire)
Russia's infrastructure development plan aims to build 17 marine terminals by 2036
(Interfax)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
Fincantieri and PGZ sign an agreement to support the modernization of the Polish Navy
Trieste
The third LSS section for Chantiers de l'Atlantique was launched in Castellammare di Stabia.
In the US, funding for wind energy development projects in ports is being cut.
Washington
Resources worth $679 million will be reallocated for port infrastructure upgrades
From January 1st, Kombiverkehr will operate the PKV intermodal terminal in the port of Duisburg.
Frankfurt am Main
It has a traffic capacity of approximately 200 thousand intermodal units per year.
Wallenius Marine and ABB form Overseas joint venture
Stockholm
The aim is to accelerate the launch of the platform of the same name for improving fleet performance.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has asked the Region to agree on the appointment of Bagalà as president of the Sardinian Port Authority.
Rome
He is currently the extraordinary commissioner of the same body
DHL eCommerce has acquired a minority stake in Saudi Arabia's AJEX Logistics Services.
Bonn/Riyadh
The Middle Eastern company has two thousand employees
CMPort's port terminals handled record container traffic in the second quarter
Hong Kong
In the first six months of 2025 the total was 78.8 million TEUs (+4.3%)
Confitarma approves the decree on advanced training for tanker seafarers.
Rome
Applause to the General Command of the Port Authority Corps
Quarterly freight traffic in Moroccan ports increases
Tangier/Casablanca
In Tanger Med the growth was +17%
The board of directors of the Genoa-based Ente Bacini has been renewed.
Genoa
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