Activity record to the Medcenter Container Terminal of Gioia Tauro with the contemporary presence of three mega portacontainer MSC



Yesterday to the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) of the group Contship Italy in the port of Gioia Tauro they are landed at the same time three mega portacontainer of the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) that equally they are at the same time loaded and unloaded from the cranes of the terminal.

Draft of the Large Hooligan Container Carrier (ULCC) MSC Kalina, that it is long 366,0 meters and it has a cargo ability 13.798 pairs to container teu, MSC Katrina, long 365,8 meters and of the ability to 12.967 teu, and MSC Teresa, that it can load 14,036 teu and it is long 365,5 meters. Moreover, in the same day they have arrived and successively shared other four ships (in the 24 hours the terminal has arrived to having until five ships berthed in contemporary). Altogether terminal MCT has worked with 53 operating hands recording an average final of 27,7 movements (container) for the time being.

The terminalista society of the group Contship Italy has evidenced that how much yesterday happened "represents a record in the Mediterranean and it would not have been possible without the perspective vision and the confidence of a company that has believed from always in this port and the realized investments of long period", and has specified that in the single month of june the MCT cranes have recorded about 166.000 movements, while from the beginning of the 2012 they have been to work 80 ships of category ULCC of ability comprised between the 13,000 and 14,000 teu.

Expressing satisfaction for the perfect development of the operations that - it has emphasized - clearly constitutes a sign of rebirth of the port, the managing director of MCT, Domenico Bagalà, has found as "the realized activity of transhipment on wide scale opens many challenges. The role of these ports of call - it has explained - more and more is determined by the choices of the customers and their satisfaction. It is true that in MCT we have felt the consequences of a change of route by the customers and with extreme pride all management and the dependent, even though in a difficult condition, have known to react positively. Not us cars-compiacciamo, but are positive signs in spite of the forecasts of total scene dominated by the uncertainty. Our terminal is here, has infrastructures and is ready to work in efficient way in order to satisfy the requirements of the customers, as we have demonstrated yesterday, that is, at the same time working three between the greatest ships in circulation with to others of inferior dimensions. A special thanks - it has concluded Bagalà - goes naturally to my team and to our customers, without which we would not be here today. MCT will continue to guarantee the excellence in the service and depends on a summer of intense job".