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The REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT Liguria confirmation the allocation of the new container terminal of Genoa to Bettolo Descent to the Bettolo Consortium
Received the resource proposed against the Harbour Authority
May 25, 2012

The Regional administrative court for the Liguria, with sentence deposited yesterday that we publish below, has received the resource proposed from the Bettolo Consortium against the Harbour Authority of Genoa for the cancellation of the deliberation of the Harbour Committee of Genoa assumed in the sitting on December 22, 2009 with which the request introduced from the Bettolo Consortium was rejected for the concession of the new harbour area yields of the filling to Bettolo Descent that is about to completion between Bridge Paleocapa and Ponte Rubattino, where will rise an area dedicated to the traffic of the containers ( on 23 December 2009).

The Bettolo Consortium is participated with 65% from Marinvest, society of the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) guided by Gianluigi Aponte and with 35% from Se.be.r., society that takes part of the Group Harbour Investments (JEEP) guided by Luigi Negri who manages in the port of Genoa, through the Terminal Containers Port of Genoa Spa, the container terminal Southern European Container Hub (SECH) to Descent Health, that it is contiguous to the new area of Bettolo Descent.

The Harbour Authority of Genoa had rejected the request proposed from the Bettolo Consortium in order to obtain the amalgamation of the areas in concession with the next areas turning out from the tombamento of Bettolo Descent and those adjacent residuali. The REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT Liguria evidences in the judgment as dissidio between the parts rispecchi the opposite interpretation that the Harbour Authority and the Bettolo Consortium annex respective to art. the 18, codicil 7, l. of harbour law 84/94 of reform: "for one - the judges explain - the norm places a real intended prohibition to do so as that to every concession it corresponds, in a relationship rigidly biunivoco, an only operator-concessionaire who must eserciate, directly and in exclusive way, the operations; for the other, vice versa, such prohibition not sussisterebbe at all, having itself rather to privilege the total ratio of the norm turns to safeguard the competition in the reference market".

The Regional administrative court, evidently inclined to a less rigid application of law 84/94, has found that, "in the new taxonomy of the assets publics, he is out of doubt that the harbour areas have a productive purpose. So that the economic and entrepreneurial activity, in preponderant measure regarding the state property regime, conforms the harbour discipline: "the increment of the traffics and the productivity of the port", in the formulation expressed to art. the 18, codicil 6, l. .cit, is the principles that address the activity of remitted regulation to the Harbour Authority".



ITALIAN REPUBLIC
IN THE NAME OF ITALIAN PEOPLE

The Regional administrative court for the Liguria

(Second Section)

it has pronounced anticipates

SENTENCE

on the resource number of general registry 179 of 2010, integrated from reasons added, proposed they give:
Bettolo consortium, represented and defended from the avv. Luigi Cocchi, Andrea Cugiolu, Gerolamo Taccogna, Alberto M. Rossi, with address which elected near Luigi Cocchi in Genoa, via Macaggi 21/5 - 8;

against

Harbour authority of Genoa, represented and defended from the avv. Alessandra Busnelli, with address which elected near Alessandra Busnelli in Genoa, via of the Merchandise, 2;

for the cancellation of the deliberation of assumed Harbour Committee 140/2/2009 in the sitting on December 22, 2009; of the note of the Harbour Authority in date 2-10/2009, prot. 190 - bringing answer to notes of the recurrent one in date 3/9/2009 and 10/4/2009, also as recalled in the deliberation as above, for concession question.

Seen the added and relative resource, reasons the attached ones;

Seen the certificate of incorporation in judgment of Harbour Authority of Genoa;

Seen the defensive memories;

Visas all the actions of the cause;

Reporter in the public audience of the day 15 March 2012 Dr. Oreste Mario Caputo and hearings for the parts the defenders as specified in the minutes;

Considered and considered in fact and right how much follows.


FACT

Bettolo consortium, to title in the port of Genoa of which extended state property concession to a portion of area, pairs to sqm 23.0619, of the immensest compendium than Dropped Bettolo, have appealled the opposite turndown from the Harbour Authority of Genoa (from now on APG), on the request understanding to obtain, for a back, the amalgamation to the concession of the next areas turning out from the tombamento of Bettolo Descent, of those adjacent residuali, already object of licences anniversaries, let alone the delay of the original term of fixed concession to 2020 until 2045; and, for the other, with specific reference to the modalities of exercise of the services connected to the concession, the authorization, according to the articles. 16 and 18 l. n. 84/94, to operate on behalf of a third party on the areas in concession.

To gears of the request, the Consortium has introduced the development plan, that is relative the conjectural document to the development of the enlivened traffics, to the programmed investments, the resources employees calibrated on the consequent regional planning to the amalgamation of the areas.

In the premises of the introductory action, it has specified in fact that:

to make given from on April 1°, 2004, regarding the original composition (called Consortium Grimaldi Group), it changed the order of the consortile compages: 65% of the quota currently are stopped by Marinvest s.r.l., society of group MSC, devoted to the management on the national territory of harbour terminals of the group; residual 35% are intestate to Seber s.r.l., take part, in its turn, of group SECH., to title of the insistent terminal on the areas of Descent Health, contiguous to that in concession to the Consortium;

the harbour town development plan discipline unitarally said areas (that is those consented in concession to the Consortium and group SECH) in the state property perimeter which marked from the S6 within, previewing for it, through the execution of works of tombamento of the watery mirror before Descent Bettolo, the objective of the constitution of according to pole the containers inside of the port of Genoa with an ability operatively to about 900.000 teus;

the forecasts of the harbour town development plan, coherently to the programmatico objective, design the future order of the infrastructural net with regard to the railway park, to the access ramps and to the edification of the pertinenziali works, goods a program which spelt in three units of participation having respective to object the complementary activities to the operativity of the terminal, the areas of I for vehicles accumulate commercial and the participations of edification;

in such frame, the concessionaires of the areas programming object and territorial zoning, have formulated two separated requests: the first in 2004 (in the composition of Consortium Grimaldi Group) in which they communicated to the APG the will of a unitary management of the pole containers after the realization of the tombamento works; the second one, substantially inevasa the first, in 2006, to changed consortile order, than specifically occupies some;

published in the ritual forms the request without observations or proposals by potential competitors had reached, the Conference of the directions and services of the APG in the sitting on January 7, 2008, preliminarily giving to account of the articulated preliminary investigation continuation from the offices on the specific participations contained in the request, it released to seem favorable to the introduced development plan "subordinating the release of the concessorio title to the presentation… of suitable legal solutions finalized to the unitary management of the compendium described in the development plan";

below, the harbour Committee, on the examination of the proposals formulated from the Consortium, contraddicendo how much previously asserted (reunion on January 24, 2008) whereby had guaranteed totally the conclusions reached from the Conference, with the appealled deliberation instead shared formally the content of the turndown expressed in the note on October 2, 2009, adopted from in charge of the procedure on sollicitation of the moment led in the formulated caveat former art. 328, codicil 2, c.p.

Consequent the compendiabili reasons of censorship in the multiple violation of the principle of loyal collaboration, of which to the articles. 97 cost., 6 and ss and 21 nonies l. n. 241/90; let alone in the violation of the articles. 5, 18, codicils 4 and 7, l. n. 84/94; excess to be able under several profiles.

The ATP has been formed asking the reiezione for the resource.

With added reasons the Consortium has deducted ulterior profiles of bastardy.

Arranged verification of the places, in outcome, to the public audience of the 15.03.2012 the cause, upon request of the parts, is withheld in decision.


STRAIGHT

Understanding is appealled the opposite turndown from the Harbour Authority of Genoa on the request proposed from the recurrent Consortium to obtain the amalgamation of the areas in concession, of the next areas turning out from the tombamento of Bettolo Descent and those adjacent residuali, already object of licences anniversaries, let alone the delay of the original term of fixed concession to 2020 until 2045.

Functional amalgamation to achieve, with specific reference to the modalities of exercise of the services connected to the amalgamation of the areas in concession, the authorization, according to the articles. 16 and 18 l. n. 84/94, to operate on behalf of a third party on they.

The censorships reach two orders of concurrent censorships: first, of nature preliminary investigation - procedimentale, denunciation the violation of the principle of loyal collaboration scrutinized according to the articles. 97 cost., 6 and ss and 21 nonies l. n. 241/90; the second, of substantial relief, complains, instead, the roved interpretation of art. the 18 l.n.84/94, since the APG, to warning of the recurrent Consortium, would have assumed a at all contrary address to the productive management of the harbour areas that of it would conform ratio and discipline.

The resource is founded.

The objective and absolute data from which moving in the cognition of the deducted dispute in cause it is that the harbour town development plan considers the areas stopped in concession from the Consortium and SECH and that turning out from the tombamento of the bordering watery mirror in unitary way, (rivers) comprising them in the which marked state property perimeter from the S6 within.

To the forecast (static) localizzatrice of the areas ago reply the location (dynamic) of the objective persecuted: the constitution of according to pole of handling of conteiners inside of the port of Genoa with an ability operatively to about 900.000 teus.

The connection between static profile (riperimetrazione of the areas) and that dynamic (increment of the terminalistica activity) also is returned evident by (crono-) the program of the previewed participations, spelt in three distinguished units disciplining respective the execution of the regarding works the complementary activities to the operativity of the terminal, the areas of I for vehicles accumulate commercial and the participations of edification.

After all, in the PRP and the annexed actions of program, the areas in concession and that gushing from the tombamento are considered instrumental to the conduction of an only terminalistico compendium able, for a back, considerably to implement the traffic of the goods inside of the port and, for the other, more and more to hold the competition in the reference market appanage of great terminals that offer services to competitive prices taking advantage of economies of scale.

The programmatico and pianificatorio design, as divisato with the recalled actions, postulates in parallel the entrepreneurial potenziamento of the called economic operators to giving performance to you.

To care, meaningfully, in the within of the respective competences, it is the Conference of the directions and services of the APG in the sitting on January 7, 2008 that the harbour Committee with the deliberation d. 24.01.2008, on the plan of former enterprise art. 18 codicil 6 l. n. 84/94, annexed to the demand of authorization, introduced from the recurrent Consortium, favorably they have been expressed finding that “… as a result of the created synergies, beyond the reliability of the consorziati subjects… (the plan) can be credibly developed on orders of magnitude of the traffic indicated with the relative investments and financial engagements”.

Sicché, acclarato that the c.d. “synergy between enterprises” is the foundation for the productive management of the compendium, controversial is the means by means of which in practice to pursue it in the respect of the field norm.

For the ATP: the Consortium would not have acquitted to the task to characterize (in order to resume the atecniche expressions employees in the recalled deliberations) “more suitable the legal instruments to the aim of traguardare the shown unitary management of currently separated state property withins”; to which it has then made followed the deliberation of the Committee that has subordinated the release of the authorization to the “constitution of the society that will have to think () to the unitary total management”.

On the proposed hypotheses, opposite the conclusion of the Consortium: the constitution of a consortium composed from the two concessionaires (that is Consortium Bettolo and SECH) to authorize itself according to art. the 16 l.n. 84/94 in order to operate inside of the only compendium, or, in alternative, the exercise in extension by SECH on the adjacent areas, that is to say that in concession to the Bettolo Consortium and that turning out from the tombamento, that it already reproduces a model employed in the port of Genoa for YOU module of Voltri, would satisfy in full load the requirement of an only cabin of direction of the terminalistico compendium.

In extreme synthesis the dissidio the opposite interpretation reflects that the APG and the Consortium respective annex to art. the 18, codicil 7, l. n. 84/94: for one, the norm places a real intended prohibition to do so as rigidly that to every concession it corresponds, in a relationship biunivoco, an only operator-concessionaire that must eserciate, directly and in exclusive way, the operations; for the other, vice versa, such prohibition not sussisterebbe at all, having itself rather to privilege the total ratio of the norm turns to safeguard the competition in the reference market.

The issue deserves a synthetic deepening.

In the new taxonomy of the assets publics, it is out of doubt that the harbour areas have a productive purpose. So that the economic and entrepreneurial activity, in preponderant measure regarding the state property regime, conforms the harbour discipline: “the increment of the traffics and the productivity of the port”, in the formulation expressed to art. the 18, codicil 6, l. .cit, is the principles that address the activity of remitted regulation to the harbour Authority.

The public belongings to the harbour Federal property of the areas in concession, according to the positive data as soon as recalled, in order to resume the periphrasis employed from the Supreme court, he is therefore closely inherent to the “perseguimento of the relative function and the relative interests to it connected” (Cass. sez. one, 14 February 2011 n. 3665).

Slowly systematic Sul, as for the specifically legal profiles, is paradigmatic art. the 1, 18° codicil d.l n. 194 of 2009 converted, with modifications, from the l. 26 February 2010 n. 25, than, with regard to the marine Federal property and to the modalities of access to the concessions by the operators, waiting for the review of the legislation in matter, preach the respect of the competition principles, of freedom of plant, guarantee of the exercise of the development, of the valorization of the entrepreneurial activities and protection of the investments.

That is of those same principles that, also in force of the assumed jurisprudential guideline from the administrative law, from beginning to end conform the confidence of the harbour areas.

In tuning, the state property concession has loosed the original print of unilateral transaction (with separated to discipline to accessivo) expression of a autoritativo power, in order to assume the connotations rather than a unitary conventional module.

The requirement to guarantee the equal opportunities of access to the harbour economic field, by means of extension of the public evidence, has sure contributed to assimilate the concession to the contract.

Nevertheless it is not revocable in doubt that also has taken knowledge of the fact that concession-I contract (of pubblicistica nature) answers to a more functional model, such to allow to pursue with the assent of the economic operator otherwise not approachable interests with the exercise of () only being able autoritativo.

It is with regard to meaningful art. the 18, codicil 4, l. cit, whereby, for the initiatives of greater importance, it previews that the President of the Authority can according to conclude substitutive agreements of art. the 11 l. 7 August 1990 n. 241.

In current the economic conjuncture, characterized from the recessività of the public controlled participation in the economy, the increment of the harbour traffic obtains with adapted investments, to which ago necessarily reply the potenziamento and the flexibility of the enterprise activity, than only the private operators can to the state voluntarily support, without (and are this the salient data), having itself to respect contractual the public evidence, are compromised or prejudiced in some way the competition in the market.

Anyway the outline of the entertained relationships if under investigation, articulated in encounters and progressive definitions of the content of the assumed engagements, he seems riconducibile, in substantial sense, to a pre-conventional module, rather than to the canonical relative procedure to the exercise of unilateral power.

The ascrizione of the state property concession to the contract (pubblicistico) answers therefore to a inemendabile requirement, and has which corollary the applicabilità, at least in abstract and where not various disposed, of the contained discipline in the code of contracts in topic of the subjects to which they can be entrusted contracts: stable consortia, temporary consortia and groupings, at least in thesis, can aspire, made blank the interests out of stock publics, to become concessionary partners.

Also the avvalimento, offers as typed model (taking to loan the lexicon employed in the deliberations recalled) of “synergy between enterprises”.

Neither osta art. the 18, codicil 7, l.cit., in the twofold letter insistently recalled from the resistant administration: the criterion of “a single concession to a same operator”; the paradigm of the direct and exclusive exercise of the terminalista of the authorized activities.

Under the first profile, the norm is limited to prescribe that the concessionary enterprises must operate in the spaces that have been assigned they and that they cannot obtain more in the same port than a concession for the same type of operations.

In reality, the most perceived doctrine, it has emphasized that the limitatezza of the spaces, united to the requirements of specialization of the single ones terminals, can be profitable much complex - and probably not even opportune as not necessarily answering to the interests of the users who prefer to make use of the services offered from operators specialized in handling of the several types of cargos - the presence in the same port more carrying out concessionaires the same activity in effective competition between they.

If of the condivisibile conclusion is draft that the norm aimed to prevent the concentration in head to a same entrepreneur of the availability of the excessive wide spaces in harbour within being declared the bastardy of the constitution or the strengthening of the dominant position considered from the naturally suitable legislator to ingender anti-competitive practices, prescinding from the practical assessment of the happened realization of the illicit ones.

As for according to profile the norm it does not place a prohibition. It is not at all () ontologicamente prohibitive from the moment that same it previews an exception (cfr. codicil 7 art. 18 l.cit.), mainly: “on motivated demanded of the concessionary enterprise, the conceding authority can authorize the confidence to other harbour enterprises, authorized according to art. the 16, of the exercise of some activities comprised in the operational cycle”.

It goes emphasized that the faculty recognized to the terminalista to entrust to authorized enterprises part of the carried out performances, is time to do so as that the concessionaire can terzializzare the accomplishment of some activities.

The law 8 July 2003 n. 172, integrating of art. the 18, than such faculty it has recognized, it comes encounter, second the doctrine that convincingly has taken care ex professo of the topic, to the requirement to return more flexible and more efficient the harbour enterprises asking for the risk, consequent to the rigid application of the obligation of the direct and exclusive exercise of the activity by the terminalista, than the organization of the harbour operators is frozen beyond measure penalizing, the necessary entrepreneurial dynamism.

Sicché the proposals formulated from the recurrent consortium on “an only cabin of direction” of the terminalistico compendium, one that it has specific with regard to the legal form that the concessionary compages are disposed to assume; the other typical one of the activity exercised from the concessionaire in extension (if under investigation by SECH), deserved a scrupulous one and seriates examination, not replaceable, as happened in the event that it occupies some, with stentorian and wearying the reference to a supposed prohibition, ex lege in reality not subsistent.

After all the appealled turndown is inficiato by a kind of at all contrary conceptual apriorismo to the dialectic preliminary investigation that must inform the procedure under investigation.

Anyway the arranged gudiziale verification, aloof the hurried not relevant legal affirmations, has assessed in fact that not sussiste some incompatible logistic situation with the only operating management as proposal from the Consortium.

It goes with regard to emphasized that the institutional autonomy and the specific competence of the harbour Authority nowadays demands a renewed ability to elaborate new operating solutions of management of the terminals to the step with the times and, goes emphasized, online with the positive hypotheses by right recalled.

The regulation of the field demands the coordination of the interests publics (in topic of safety of the conditions of job and respect of the out of stock public discipline) with those relative ones to the profitable activity of enterprise of the harbour operators.

Imposing if, of the case, prescription or conditions that such balance safeguards: the control power (cfr., for example: art. 5 d.m. 31 March 1995 n. 585; art. 16 l. cit on the subjective qualification to the harbour operations), fortified of sanzionatorio apparatus, of which the harbour Authority is invested facilitates and garrisons the task.

Conclusive the censorship (substantial is founded) that the roved interpretation complains of art. the 18, codicil 7, l.n. 84/94.

The same conclusion it must be reached in order the impugnation reason.

Sussiste the violation of art. the 3 l. n. 241/90 in joint provision to art. the 97 cost. the APG has deferred sine die the decision on the request under investigation, in order to assume it at last only after the recurrent Consortium, exasperated from unwarrantable diffuseness, it has formally distrusted former art 328 c.p.

Conclusive the resource must be received.

The innovation of the issues, in deducted fact and right in cause, justifies the integral compensation of the argument expenses.


P.Q.M.

The Regional administrative court for the Liguria (Second Section)

definitively pronouncing on the resource, as in proposed epigraph, it according to receives it of the motivation and, for the effect, it cancels the appealled actions.

Compensated expenses.

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

So decided in Genoa in the Council Chamber of the day 15 March 2012 with the participation of the magistrates:
Enzo Di Sciascio, President
Oreste Mario Caputo, Councilman, Drafter
Davide Ponte, Councilman




THE DRAFTER


THE PRESIDENT


DEPOSITED IN SECRETARIAT
The 24/05/2012
THE SECRETARY
(Art. 89, Co. 3, cod. proc. amm.)
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Terminal operator HHLA posts record quarterly revenue
Record Monthly Container Traffic at Turkish Ports
Ankara
In May, almost 1.4 million TEUs were handled (+17.6%)
Sergio Landolfi has been elected president of the Customs Association of the Port of La Spezia
The Spice
The board of directors has been renewed
The ferry industry elite will attend the Interferry conference in Salerno in October
Victoria
Event titled "Connections"
Uniport launches an initiative to support ALS research
Rome
Fundraising for the NeMO Clinical Center Serena Foundation Onlus
The Propeller Club of Genoa has analyzed risks and opportunities of using AI in the maritime and insurance sectors
Genoa
The importance of training in the use of technology was highlighted
Chantiers de l'Atlantique delivers luxury cruising yacht Luminara to The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection
Saint Nazaire
The ship will debut in Alaska
Maritime transport, with suppliers and naval contractors, is the cornerstone of Italy's trade
Port Cervo
ANPAN Annual Congress in Sardinia
Uiltrasporti, risk of chaos in Italian ports due to delays in appointing AdSP presidents
Rome
If we continue to distribute positions without taking into account the skills of future presidents - warns the union - we will be forced to mobilize
Giampieri (Assoporti): the procedure for appointing AdSP presidents must find a quick solution
Rome
Hearing at the Chamber of Deputies
MAN Energy Solutions changes name to Everllence
Augusta
Brand born from the fusion of the English terms ever and excellence
The Ministry of the Interior and Fincantieri sign the new legality protocol
Rome
Vard delivers two CSOV vessels equipped with cyber notation
Trieste
They present all the mandatory requirements in terms of cybersecurity
An experimental section of the ultra-fast Hyper Transfer transport system will be built in Veneto
Munich
Capsules with magnetic levitation technology will be able to carry 12 tons of containerized cargo or 38 passengers
SBB urges UFT and ERA to take measures to avoid rail accidents caused by brake blocks
Bern
The Gotthard Base Tunnel has been fully reopened more than a year after a train derailment
In the first four months of 2025, container traffic in the port of Augusta grew by +21.6%
Augusta
Di Sarcina: we are already reaping the first fruits of the movement of containers from Catania
Italian ports participate in the latest edition of Transport Logistic in Monaco
Munich
The Italian Pavilion inaugurated
One billion euros to restore Ukraine's port infrastructure damaged by Russian attacks
Odessa
Entrance of 100 new special members in the port company CULMV of Genoa
Genoa
First entry of 45 units from next month
Musolino was unanimously confirmed as president of MEDports
Tangier
The association brings together 33 port authorities in the Mediterranean basin
In 2024, the Genoese Ente Bacini recorded record revenues
Genoa
Last year, 58 ships were placed in the five dry docks managed
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ALIS has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Network of Italian Logistics Schools
Rome
The aim is to strengthen the link between the world of school and the world of work.
Every euro invested in the Coast Guard generates a value of 1.53 euros for the national economy
Rome
Economic report on the Corps presented in Rome
European automotive logistics must look to the world
Brussels
Göbel (ECG): The challenges of our sector are global, and so must our responses be
In April, freight traffic in the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado decreased by -8.7%
Genoa
Stable volumes in the first port, while in the second a decrease of -27.7% was recorded
Natilus evaluates with Kuehne+Nagel the use of its mixed-wing aircraft in cargo transport
Schindellegi
They are designed to achieve a 30% reduction in fuel consumption and a 40% increase in load capacity.
Tender awarded for the enhancement of the Tuscan Port Community System
Leghorn
Investment of over 500 thousand euros for the application development activity lasting one year
Conference on the impact of artificial intelligence and automation on safety and work in ports
Rome
Organized by Filt Cgil, it will be held on Thursday and Friday in Livorno
Fincantieri signs a memorandum of understanding with Qatar Navigation
Trieste
Cooperation in areas such as maritime services, project management and technology integration
Port of Piraeus, Piraeus II floating dry dock reopened
Piraeus
It has a lifting capacity of 4 thousand tons
Poland finances expansion of Euroterminal Slawków intermodal terminal
Slavkow
From 285 thousand TEU containers per year, the capacity will increase to 530 thousand TEU
CMA CGM - Saigon Newport Corporation Agreement for New Container Terminal in Haiphong
Marseille
It will become operational in 2028 and will have a capacity of 1.9 million TEUs
Genova Industrie Navali acquires a stake in Lagomarsino Anielli
Genoa
Simultaneous sale of the company Pitturazioni Navali Industriali
Estonian AS Tallink charters cruise ferry Romantika to Algerian Madar Maritime Company
Tallinn
The Algiers company was founded last year
ANSI, the measures for logistics in the Infrastructure decree are good
Rome
D'Angelo: there is no lack of innovative drive, long-term vision and attention to transition and sustainability
Project for the creation of a Renewable Energy Community in the port of La Spezia
The Spice
New anti-piracy exercise in the Gulf of Guinea
Rome
It involved the naval unit "Comandante Bettica" and the merchant ship "Grande Angola"
Kuehne+Nagel to buy Spanish haulage firm TDN
Schindellegi/Madrid
It has 600 employees and a fleet of over 700 vehicles
MPC Container Ships' Quarterly Revenue and Profit Decline
Oslo
Baack: Container market continues to show resilience
Fincantieri and SRSA sign agreement for maritime and coastal development in the Red Sea
Trieste
Fincantieri Arabia for Naval Services inaugurated in Riyadh
Green light for the sale of 56% of Wilson Sons to Shipping Agencies Services (MSC group)
London
The transaction will be completed early next month
Work to remove wrecks of 38 vessels in Catania port begins
Catania
Intervention worth over two million euros
The issue of the intended use of the Molo Clementino is heating up in Ancona
Ancona
GNV has obtained ISO 14001 certification
Genoa
It has been issued by LRQA - Lloyd's Register Quality Assurance
ABB has reached a deal to buy France's BrightLoop
Zurich
The aim of the acquisition is to accelerate the electrification strategy in the industrial mobility and marine propulsion sectors.
The criteria for adjusting port concession fees to inflation rates have been defined
Rome
MBS Logistics buys Swiss freight forwarder Gerhard Wegmüller
Zurich
The company is headquartered in Zurich
Ferry Kriti I, earmarked for scrap, sold for $3.6 million
Athens
It will be dismantled by an EU-authorised shipyard
Container traffic at the Port of Los Angeles increased by +9.4% in April
Los Angeles/New York
In the first three months of 2025, the Port of New York handled 2.2 million containers (+10.0%)
The Council of Ministers has approved the Infrastructure Decree-Law
Rixi: important measure for road haulage
Global Ship Lease revenues increased by +6.4% in the first quarter
Athens
Net profit of 123.4 million dollars (+34.3%)
Filt, Fit and Uilt urge an urgent overcoming of the commissioner phase for the AdSP of the Central Tyrrhenian Sea
Naples
Federlogistica, a proactive plan is needed to strengthen cybersecurity of ports and logistics
Genoa
Creation of a national fund urged
Mercitalia Logistics - Logtainer Agreement
Rome
The aim is to develop intermodal maritime transport services in Italy and Europe.
DP World to operate multipurpose terminal at Syrian port of Tartous
Damascus
An investment of 800 million dollars is planned
Port of Long Beach Sets New Container Traffic Record for April
Long Beach/Hong Kong
Hong Kong port handled 1.2 million containers (+6.0%)
RINA closes 2024 with revenues once again at a record level
Genoa
In the first quarter, turnover increased by +12% and new orders by +16%
The fourth edition of the national conference "Interporti al centro" will be held on May 23rd
Rome
Organized by UIR, it is scheduled at the Interporto Rivers in Venice
In the UK, express delivery company Evri and DHL's e-commerce division merge
London
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
Conference on the impact of artificial intelligence and automation on safety and work in ports
Rome
Organized by Filt Cgil, it will be held on Thursday and Friday in Livorno
The fourth edition of the national conference "Interporti al centro" will be held on May 23rd
Rome
Organized by UIR, it is scheduled at the Interporto Rivers in Venice
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
US has its eye on Greek ports
(Kathimerini)
Proposed 30% increase for port tariffs to be in phases, says Loke
(Free Malaysia Today)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Relazione del presidente Vittorio Parmigiani
Porto Cervo, 30 maggio 2025
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Another 20 tractors coming for Contship Group's Hannibal
The Spice
They will be taken into delivery between the end of this year and the first months of 2026.
In April, the port of Singapore handled over 3.6 million containers (+7.1%)
Singapore
In terms of weight, containerized traffic decreased by -2.5%
Assagenti suggests the priorities that will have to be addressed by the next president of the port of Genoa
Genoa
Danaos Corporation's Quarterly Revenues Steady
Athens
Net profit down -23.5%
Cargo traffic in Montenegro ports stable in first quarter
Podgorica
Growth of +73.9% in volumes to and from Italy
Prysmian inaugurates the new cable-laying vessel Prysmian Monna Lisa
Milan
Finnish plant producing high-voltage submarine cables expanded
Second container terminal inaugurated at Cameroonian port of Kribi
Yaounde
It has a quay of 715 linear meters and a seabed depth of -16 meters
Eurogate Intermodal has bought the Deisser trucking company
Hamburg/Stuttgart
The Stuttgart-based company specializes in the container segment
Discount announced on transit fee for large container ships in Suez Canal
Ismailia
15% reduction for ships of at least 130,000 SCNT tons
The Simplified Logistics Zone of the Port and hinterland of La Spezia is ready to be made operational
Genoa/La Spezia
Regional councilor Piana made this known
Port of Genoa, the TAR for Lazio has annulled the Ignazio Messina-Terminal San Giorgio merger
Rome
Grimaldi Euromed's appeal accepted
Fincantieri closes first quarter with record new orders
Trieste
Strong growth in revenue and EBITDA
Stop, other Regions should follow Abruzzo's example by introducing the regional ferrobonus
Rome
The laying of the first pillar of the logistics park under construction in Tortona was celebrated
Tortona
The project is scheduled for completion in May 2026.
The Customs Free Zone enclosed in Genoa as an opportunity to mitigate the impact of duties
Genoa
Spediporto highlights it
Taiwan's Evergreen and Yang Ming saw revenue decline in April
Keelung/Taipei
Compatriot Wan Hai Lines' turnover grows
In the first three months of 2025, RCL containerships transported 658,000 TEU (+8.9%)
Bangkok
Revenues up +37.6%
The preparation process for the Port Regulatory Plan of Ancona has begun
Ancona
Preliminary verification of the Strategic Environmental Assessment has begun
d'Amico International Shipping reports quarterly revenue and earnings decline
Luxembourg
Balestra di Mottola: We do not expect any impact on us from any port tariffs applied in the US for ships built in China
Towards the final approval of the nomination of Francesco Benevolo as president of the port of Ravenna
Rome
The MIT has forwarded the proposal to the Transport Commission of the Chamber
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