Maersk Karlskrona largest portacontainer will be never berthed in the port of Trieste and the ports of call of the Adriatic



The Maersk Karlskrona will arrive in the port of Trieste next Sunday and, with its cargo ability of 7.403 teu and with its 318,24 meters of lenght overall, largest portacontainer it will be never berthed in the giuliano port and the ports of call of the Adriatic. The ship of the Maersk Line, commissioning last month from the port of Shanghai, will be used in line AE12 of the Danish company that connects the Far East directly with Trieste, Koper and Rijeka.

The Maersk Karlskrona, that it is constructed in 1996, has a gross capacity of 90.456 tons, a draught of 14,52 meters and the maximum speed of 24 knots. Service AE12, in which it is employed, touches the ports of Trieste, Koper, Rijeka, Trieste, Damietta, Port Saïd, Jeddah, Port Klang, Singapore, Shanghai, Busan, Chiwan, Hong Kong, Tanjung Pelepas, Port Klang, Port Saïd, Trieste.

"The insertion in the spin of the AE12 of a ship of these dimensions - it has emphasized managing director of Maersk Line Italy, Orazio Stella - represents an ulterior confirmation of our will to continue in the action of investment on the Adriatic, politics that has allowed us to reach a leadership position on this route and that it will help to construct us and to maintain in the time a range of producing always better in order to support our customers and their businesses".

Satisfaction for the arrival of large portacontainer to the container terminal TMT (Trieste Marine Terminal) is expressed by the managing director of the terminalista society of group T.O. Delta: "for us - Fabrizio Zerbini has explained - the arrival of the Maersk Karlskrona marks ulterior an important moment of increase in the relationship with Maersk Line and is the acknowledgment of the service reliability that we have constructed with the job carried out in these years". "We are trusting - it has added - that the ulterior investments for the upgrading of the operating ability to our cranes of dock, already defined and with previewed completion by April 2013, will allow with the customers to benefit ulteriorly of the competitive advantages that Trieste offers and to carry to TMT ships still larger".

"I believe that the arrival to Trieste of the Maersk Karlskrona - has commented the president of the Harbour Authority of Trieste, Marina Monassi - once again demonstrates as the relationship between Trieste Marine Terminal and Maersk continuous Line to grow substantially and with important perspectives for an ulterior development of the traffics container in the areas of the East North Italy and Centro Est Europa via Trieste. I confirm the full support of the Harbour Authority and my staff so that the potentialities that Maersk Line and other primary companies of navigation demonstrate to see in Trieste can be more and more realized and with ulterior increase of the traffics also in the next few years".