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Protocol of understanding in order to upgrade the intermodal transport of the goods in the Southeastern Sicily
They are involved Sicilian Region, Ministry of Transportation, Harbour Authority of Augusta and Catania and Interporto of Catania
September 11, 2012

The ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports has announced that the understanding protocol is perfected that previews participations finalized to the commercial potenziamento and of the intermodal transport of the goods in the Southeastern Quadrant of the Sicily. The document, that we publish below, engages the ministry, in the within of program PON Nets and Mobility 2007-13, and some territorial agencies of the Sicily which the Region, the Harbour Authorities of Augusta and Catania and the society of management of the interporto of Catania, to finance, to monitor and to verify the important realization infrastructures, harbour and interportuali for the development of the logistics and the commercial exchange towards the Southeastern Sicily.

The ministry has emphasized that "the understanding, supported also from the EU commission, represents a fundamental result towards a undertaken sinergica activity from various productive agencies that concur towards the objective common to develop this geographic area creating system in the actions and the programming of the investments".

"In the protocol, moreover - it has specified the ministry - there is the engagement of the two commercial ports more important of the area, Augusta and Catania, and of the Interporto of Catania, to second proceed a governance unitary and a shared programming in order to return more effective the investments and more rational the commercial development of the Sicilian area".



UNDERSTANDING PROTOCOL
BETWEEN
MINISTRY OF INFRASTRUCTURES AND THE TRANSPORTS
SICILIAN REGION
HARBOUR AUTHORITY Dl AUGUSTA
HARBOUR AUTHORITY OF CATANIA
SOCIETY TO INTERPOSE SICILIANI TO YOU

OBJECT: Participations finalized to the commercial potenziamento and of the intermodal transport of the goods in the Southeastern Quadrant of the Sicily

Rome, 7 agosto2012



Premised

SEEN art. the 15 of the law 7 August 1990 n. 241 and s.m.i that it attributes to Public Administration the faculty to conclude agreements between they for the development in collaboration of activity of common interest.
SEEN art. the 46 of the Bill n. 201 on December 06, 2011 enacted the 214/2011 that, to the aim to promote the infrastructure realization of connection between the ports and harbour areas back, allows with the harbour authorities to constitute logistic systems that take part through actions of understanding and coordination with the regions, the provinces and the municipalities interested let alone with the managers of railway infrastructures;
SEEN National the Strategic Picture for regional politics of development 2007-2013 (from hour in then called QSN) of which to EC Regulation 1083/2006 on the Structural Bottoms, approved of with deliberation CIPE 174/2006 dcl 22/12/06 and successively adopted from the EU commission in date 13/07/2007, which previews national an operating program of performance falling back in the competences of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, and mainly National Operating Program (PON) "Nets and Mobility" 2007-2013;
CONSIDERED that choruses Decision of EU commission C (2007) 6318 on December 07, 2007 are approved of the PON, previewed in the within of the QSN for the structural participations in the Italian regions interested by the Objective Convergence;
CONSIDERED that the Sicilian Region is one of the 4 Regions in Objective Convergence, how many former art. 1083/2006 determined second and in agreement with characterized how much from the above-mentioned QSN;
CONSIDERED that the PON previews that the Authority of Management (AdG) is identified in the Ministry of Infrastructures (now Ministry of Infrastructures and the international Transports), Head office for the development of the territory, programming and projects Division II "European and national Programs for the nets and mobility";
SEEN I decree of the AdG 6650 of the 16.06.2009 that characterizes the Augusta Port as beneficiary of the Great Harbour Project "Hub of Augusta";
SEEN Decreto 9957 of the AdG of the 02.11.2011 that characterizes the Sicilian Region as beneficiary of the Participation "Interporto of Catania Polo Intermodale";
SEEN the railway participations, localized in the quadrant south oriental, financed from the PON Nets and Mobility - "Velocizzazione Catania - Syracuse, draft Targia Hut" and "Completion of the doubling of the draft central Catania Catania - Ognina";
SEEN the Conventions which signed between the Authority of Management of the PON Nets and Mobility and the Beneficiaries Harbour Authority of Augusta and RFI;
SEEN the Agreement of Program Picture for marine transport the stipulated in date 05.11.2001 between the Ministry of the Economy and Finances, the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports, the Sicilian Region and the Sicilian Harbour Authorities and next integrating action of the 31.01.2006 for the programming of the resources allotted from Deliberation CIPE n° 35 of 2005;
SEEN the Financial law of the 2007 (L.296 of 2006) that it characterizes the four Augusta as one of Hub harbour Italian of the Mediterranean on which state investments in such sense are activated;
SEEN the Project Territory I unwind 2 INTERMED of November 2011, written up from the Regional Province of Catania on financing of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the transports;
SEEN the Regional Plan of the Transports and Mobility - Slowly director of 2002 of the Sicilian Region;
SEEN the implementing Plan of the Transport of the Goods and the Logistics of the Sicilian Region, approved of from the Regional committee with deliberation n. 24 on February 2, 2004 and adopted with I decree for tourism of the City council member, and Communications and the Transports on February 23, 2004, with which the logistic infrastructures have been individual necessary to develop to intermodal systems of transport, interconnected with the integrated systems national and the plurimodali European corridors;
SEEN the understandings reached in the programmatici encounters near the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transports between the Harbour Authorities of Augusta and Catania, the Sicily Region and the Society To interpose to you Sicilian for the Interporto of Catania, finalized to verify the action of mass to system of the investments and the projects for the commercial development and of the exchange of the goods in the Southeastern Quadrant of the Sicily;
SEEN the Deliberation of the Harbour Committee n. 02/12 of the 08.05.2012 that it gave sent to the President of the Harbour Authority of Augusta to stipulate a protocol of understanding and/or constitution of an Association between the Harbour Authorities of Catania and Augusta, in order to strengthen the sinergica activity between two Sicilian ports;
SEEN the Deliberation of the Harbour Committee n. 80 of the 14.06.2012 that it gave sent to the President of the Harbour Authority of Catania to stipulate a protocol of understanding and/or constitution of an Association between the Harbour Authorities of Catania and Augusta, in order to strengthen the sinergica activity between the two Sicilian ports;

All this premising and considered,

It is convene and it is stipulated how much follows:


ART. 1 - Premised
The premises form integral part of anticipate action and they agree integrally transcribed in anticipates article.


2 ART. - Object of Protocollo
The Parts are engaged to activate and to develop to the initiatives of own competence times to the acceleration in the realization of the participations finalized to the potenziamento of the Southeastern Quadrant of the Sicily.
The parts agree on the necessity to program and to place in being every activity necessary and useful to favor the realization of the works listed in the next Table To that they arrange of the conditions technical-financial institutions for being immediately activated.



TABLE TO


PROJECT


AMOUNT


FONTE of
FINANCING


BENEFICIARY
EXECUTOR


Hub Harbour of Augusta.
Realization of large squares and banchien for the traffic containers


€ 119.500.000


PON Nets and Mobility (83,9 M€)
Deep civil servants (L. 166/02),
Deep CIPE, Bottoms own


Harbour authority of Augusta


Port of Catania.
Realization of commercial dock to service of the traffics ro-ro


€ 100.000.000


PON You transport (9,8 M€);
Deep CIPE, Bottoms own


Harbour authority of Catania


Interporto of Catania - ntermodale Polo


€ 40.653.863


PON Nets and Mobility (16 M€)
Deep CIPE, LR 20/2003
Deep own


Sicilian region/Society To interpose Siciliani to you
Regarding the participations in Table B, than they immediately do not turn out attivabili for lack of technical-financial requirement, the parts convene on the correspondence of the same ones to the objective to guarantee the potenziamento of the Southeastern Quadrant of the Sicily of which to protocol anticipates. Therefore the parts agree on the necessity to place in being, for how much of respective competence, every activity useful to favor of the performance. The aforesaid programmatico picture could be implemented by means of the insertion of ulterior coherent participations with the recalled purposes of the protocol, advance sharing between the parts underwriters.



TABLE B - programmatico Picture of reference





PROJECT


AMOUNT
Estimated

Million euro


STATE OF
PROJECT


BENEFICIARY
EXECUTOR


Port of AUGUSTA


Port of call and railway connection commercial port - shod line CT- SR


13,5


Preliminary matter


AP Augusta


2° lottery large squares


72,00


Definitive with opinions to acquire


3° extract terminal containers


52,00


Definitive with opinions to acquire


Consolidation outer dam and recharges of the mantellata one


12,50


Preliminary matter


Realization of a bathtub of collection black waters to the commercial port and connection to consortile purifier AS


7,0


Study of feasibility


Port of CATANIA


Realization water, fognario and antifire system


6,00


Executive


AP Catania


New realization passage axis of the services


5,00


Definitive


Work central pier rectifies east dock -


12,00


Definitive


Work central pier rectifies dock the west –


10,00


Definitive


Consolidation outer dam and recharges of the mantellata one


58,00


Definitive


Realization and modernization large square pier F. Crispi and of the new Port


2,00


Executive


Interporto of Catania


Directed street connection from the logistic pole to the intermodal pole with the port of call of Catania-Hut with road interconnection to the Axis of the services and the port of Catania


9,2


Definitive with opinions to acquire


Society To interpose Siciliani to you


Road of connection between logistic pole and intermodal pole of the interporto of Catania


14,49


Definitive with opinions to acquire


Connection computer science Platform integrated for the logistics and the intermodalità – Regions Objective “Convergence” - Sicily


3,00


Definitive with opinions to acquire


Society To interpose Siciliani/UIRNET to you
The interested subjects moreover will act in co-ordinate way for the development of the intermodalità also according to the disposed one of cited art. the 46 of the Bill n. 201 on December 06, 2011 enacted 214/2011 to the aim to support the process of territorial development to international level second the communitarian guidelines also for that it regards the nets TRIES.
With the subscription of protocol anticipates, in the picture of the lines of address of the regional policies in matter of mobility and transports finalized to the implementation of the associate-economic development of the Southeastern territory of the Sicilian Region, the actions of the interested subjects will converge, putting to factor common the strengths of each truth, facing and resolving in sinergico way the points of weakness of the same ones. In the context of a system integrated of intermodal logistic services, even though in the within of the autonomy of everyone of the subjects over mentioned in defining the fields, the merceologiche categories and geographic areas on which to head, the strategies common of marketing, finalized will be defined to credit in unitary way to international level the intermodal logistic system (Ports and To interpose) of the Sicily oriental to you, as the gateway towards the main destinations and connections independently from the transit point. To such fine to more traditional actions of commercialization (proud, congressional exhibitions, events, etc.) initiatives of innovative marketings apt will be placed side by side to promote, for every market of reference (geographic, modal or merceologico). more opportune the infrastructural complex and of services is intraportuale or interportuale it.
The corrected appraisal of the socioeconomic system, reference, will afford to influence the choices that will govern the investments thesis to the realization of a logistic system integrated of the ports and to interpose involved you, developing the total competitiveness and reducing the local confrontation.
With protocol anticipates involved subjects (AP Augusta and Catania and Society To interpose to you Sicilian for the Interporto Catania), they are engaged to leek in being actions times to the location of the requirements and of the best practices you anticipate in the various activities, or way such to potentially create homogenous standards and intermodal community system let alone an implementation of standard of homogenous services.
The parts are engaged, moreover, to develop a common communitarian and national planning with the promotion of the coordination of the participation to the notices, in order to increase the net of national and international relations and to increase the possibility to approach finalized sources of financing to the railway-marine intermodalità, reduction of the road traffic (freeways of the sea).
The Harbour Authorities of Augusta and Catania and the Society To interpose to you Sicilian for the Interporto of Catania are also engaged to adopt, in the respect of the single managerial autonomies, a form of “governance”, time to favor strategies shared with respect to the performance of the Program for the infrastructural development and of initiatives and activity shared of coordination, adoption of common rules and the optimization of I use it of existing infrastructures, felt also the opinion of the MIT, Authority of Management PON, the Porti Head office let alone of the Sicilian Region.


ART. 3 - Engagements of the MIT -
DG for the development of the territory the international programming and projects
The MIT - Head office for the development of the territory the international programming and projects, with reference to the participations of own competence plays the role of Authority of Management of the PON Nets and Mobility 2007-2013, with tasks of appraisal, selection and admission to financing and second the tasks delineated from the Document of Description of the System of Management and Control, cx art. 70 and sgg. of the Reg. EC 1083/2006.
The MIT presides the technical Table of which to next art. the 9 and every convenes the reunions qualvolta upon request considers it or of the others members of the Table necessary.
It is moreover engaged to stipulate the Convention with the Sicilian Region for the financing of the Participation “Interporto of Catania - Polo Intermodale”, already inserted in the list of the Participations of Decreto of the AdG of the PON Nets and Mobility n. 9957 of the 2.11.2011.
The MIT is also engaged:
  • to promote, in independent way or upon request of the responsibles of the single participations, every useful initiative to the aims of the respect of the engagements and the obligations by the subject underwriters of anticipates Protocol;
  • to put into effect every initiative useful to accelerate the release of the opinions of own competence on the projects of Protocollo, to the aim to guarantee the respect of the times of performance.

ART. 4 - Engagements of the Sicilian Region -
Department of Infrastructures, Mobility and the Transports
The Sicilian Region is beneficiary of the participation “Interporto of Catania: Intermodal pole” for the development of the interporto same. The participation will be realized by the Society of Interposing to you Siciliani Spa with the scope to complete and to upgrade the zone of interchange and the logistics of the goods to support of the marine ports of call of the port of Augusta and Catania.
The Sicilian Region has the task to sign with the Society of Sicilian Interposing you the Convention having to object the operating modalities of verification and monitoring of the participations to the aim to afford the start of the projects second program and to afford the reimbursement of the expense previewed from the PON Nets and Mobility.
The Sicilian Region, which the actions of programming for the development of the Southeastern area of the Region compete, has moreover the task of:
  • to accelerate every useful initiative to the release of the opinions of own competence on the projects of anticipates Protocol, to the aim to guarantee the respect of the times of performance;
  • to collaborate with the MIT for the location of new functional participations to the purposes of anticipates protocol to share also during Committee of Address and Performance (central intelligence agency).

ART. 5 - Engagements of the Harbour Authority of Augusta
The Harbour Authority of Augusta, than with the project of which to art. the 2 - Table To is engaged among other things to activate and to upgrade a terminal containers in the port of Augusta, necessary to feeding the logistic and industrial activity of the area of the field South of Catania and Sud-Orientale of the Sicily, is engaged, for how much of competence, with the subscription of anticipates Protocol of Understanding, placing in being every necessary, opportune and/or useful activity in order to achieve the obtaining of all the opinions and authorizations, previewed from the law and/or demanded from the competent administrative authorities for the definitive approval of the projects and the execution of the participations.
To the state of the programming the picture of the sources financial institutions available is the following one:



PROJECT


Cost total
investment


Contribution
FESR PON


Contribution It are
PON


Other state contributions (CIPE and L.166/02)


Deep own Harbour Authorities


Widening large square 1° extract


28.300.000, 00


€ 9,931 885


€ 9,931 885


€ 1.891.591


€ 6.544.639


Adaptation dock 1° extract


38.700.000, 00


€ 13.581.765


€ 13.581.765


€ 6.800.000


€ 4.736.470


Realization docks container 2° extract


52.500.000, 00


€ 18.424.875


€ 18.421.875


€ -


€ 15.650.250


TOTAL


119.500.000, 00


41.938.525


41.938.525


8.691.591


26.931.359
The Harbour Authority is also engaged:
  • to finance the part of own competence and to make to realize all the complementary works that had to become necessary as a result of the realization of the works object of anticipates Protocol of understanding;
  • to collaborate with the MIT for the location of new functional participations to the purposes of it anticipates protocol let alone to place in being, for how much of competence, every necessary, opportune and/or useful activity in order to achieve the obtaining of all opinions and authorizations, previewed from the law and/or demanded from the competent administrative authorities for the definitive approval of the projects and the execution of the art. the 2 participations of which to Table B;
  • to activate with the Harbour Authority of Catania and the Society To interpose to you Sicilian for interporto of Catania a programmatico agreement that values the activities and the investments, determining a turned synergy to create a system of activities common and their mass to system for the valorization of existing infrastructures and the future investments let alone to realize, in practice, the perseguimento of synergies and complementariness.

ART. 6 - Engagements of the Harbour Authority of Catania
The Harbour Authority of Catania, than with the project of which to art. the 2 - Table To is engaged among other things to realize the finalized dock also to traffic ro-ro, necessary to feeding the logistic activity of the area of the field South of Catania and Sud-orientale of the Sicily, is engaged, for how much of competence, with the subscription of anticipates Protocol of Understanding, to place in being every necessary, opportune and/or useful activity for the execution of the participations in being.
To it are of the work the picture of the sources financial institutions available he is the following one:



PROJECT


Cost total
investment


Contribution
FESR PON


Contribution It are
PON


Other state contributions (L.166/02)


Other state contributions (L.413/98)


Deep own Harbour Authorities


Realization of commercial dock to service of the traffics ro-ro


100.000.000


€ 5.805.544, 34


€ 4.032.450, 01


€ 37.538.000, 00


€ 44.731.155, 61


remaining
The Harbour Authority is also engaged:
  • to finance the part of own competence and to make to realize all the complementary works that had to become necessary as a result of the realization of the works object of anticipates Protocol of Understanding;
  • to collaborate with the MIT for the location of new functional participations to the purposes of it anticipates protocol let alone to place in being, for how much of competence, every necessary, opportune and/or useful activity in order to achieve the obtaining of all the opinions and authorizations, previewed from the law and/or demanded from the competent administrative authorities for the definitive approval of the projects and the execution of the art. the 2 participations of which to Table B;
  • to activate with the Harbour Authority of Augusta and the Society To interpose to you Sicilian for interporto of Catania a programmatica agreement that values the activities and the investments, determining a turned synergy to create a system of activities common and their mass to system for the valorization of existing infrastructures and the future investments let alone to realize, in practice, the perseguimento of synergies and complementariness.

ART. 7 - Engagements of the Society To interpose Siciliani to you
Interporto of Catania
The Society To interpose you Sicilian (SIS) with the project of which to art. the 2 Table To is engaged to realize Polo Intermodale. SIS is engaged, for how much of competence, with the subscription of Protocollo d' Intesa, to place in being every necessary, opportune and/or useful activity for the execution of the participations in being.
To the state of the programming the picture of the sources financial institutions available is the following one:



PROJECT


Cost total
investment


Contribution
FESR PON


Contribution It are
PON


L.R. 20/2003


Deep own


Deep civil servants (CIPE)


Interporto of Catania – Polo Intermodale


40.653.863, 00


€ 8.000.000, 00


€ 8.000.000, 00


€ 15.146.222, 00


€ 2.136.024, 00


€ 7.371.617, 00
SIS is also engaged:
  • to sign with the Sicilian Region the Convention for it I use of financings PON Nets and Mobility, exceeding every eventual criticality, within the date of the 31.10.2012;
  • to collaborate with the MIT for the location of new functional participations to the purposes of it anticipates protocol let alone to place in being, for how much of competence, every necessary, opportune and/or useful activity in order to achieve the obtaining of all the opinions and authorizations, previewed from the law and/or demanded from the competent administrative authorities for the definitive approval of the projects and the execution of the art. the 2 participations of which to Table B;
  • to activate with the Harbour Authority of Augusta and Catania a programmatica agreement that values the activities and the investments, determining a turned synergy to create a system of activities common and their mass to system for the valorization of existing infrastructures and the future investments let alone to realize, in practice, the perseguimento of synergies and complementariness.

ART. 8 - Modalities and times of performance of the Participations
The works will be planned, entrusted, executed and tested in the respect of the enforced communitarian, national and regional picture normative of reference and in particular of D.L.vo 163/06 and s.m.i and regional law 12/2011.
Regarding the participations financed with deep of the PON Nets and Mobility, the final deadline of admissibility of the previewed expense is that from enforced communitarian norm (31.12.2015).
The parts are engaged, each in the within of own competences, to guarantee the maximum and mutual collaboration, information and transparency beyond assuring the immediate availability of the documentation of technical nature and administrative profit and propedeutica for the editing of the project for the phases of realization and the activities of control, monitoring and communication.


9 ART. - Technical Table and nomination of the responsibles
for the performance of Protocollo of understanding
The underwriters of anticipate Protocol agree about the constitution near the MIT, Authority of Management of the PON, permanent a Technical Table for the coordination and the monitoring of all the activities connected to anticipates protocol.
In particular it competes to the aforesaid Technical Table verifying the projects, monitoring the correct performance of the participations, placing in being the necessary measures times to the overcoming of inherent criticalities the relationships between the Parts underwriters and to promote actions towards other Agencies for the resolution of eventual criticalities. It is up moreover to the table to monitor the effectiveness at the level of system of the participations activated on the base of anticipates protocol to the aims of the verification about the attainment of the objectives connected to the potenziamento of the Southeastern Quadrant of the Sicily.
The Parts will indicate respective referring for the participation to saying the Table, to which it is invited to participate the represented ones of the Regal DG of the EU commission.
The MIT provvederà with own note to name own representative, which will assume also the function of Coordinator of the Technical Table and will be designated to convene Partì, every qualvolta of ravvisi the necessity, to the aim to guarantee the monitoring of the project and the resolution of the eventual criticalities.
The burdens for the participation to the Technical Table will be at the expense of every Administration/represented Society.
For all eventual the problematic ones that had to rebel in the prosieguo of the activities, the MIT, on indication of the Technical Table, will convene appropriate encounters with the Representatives of the Territorial Agencies as well as of the Agencies signers to the aim to reach, in times breviums, to solutions shared.

Rome, them 7 August 2012

Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports
Head office for the Development of the Territory, the International Programming and Projects
Qualification; Director Generale
Name and Last name: Maria Margherita Migliaccio
Signature:

Sicilian region
Department of Infrastructures, Mobility and the Transports
Qualification: Director Generale
Name and Last name: Vincenzo Falgares
Signature:

Harbour authority of Augusta
Qualification: President
Name and Last name: Aldo Garozzo
Signature:

Harbour authority of Catania
Qualification: President
Name and Last name: Santo Castiglione
Signature:

Society To interpose Siciliani to you
Qualification: President
Name and Last name: Rodolfo De Dominicis
Signature:
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The Clean Maritime Fuels Platform suggests measures to support the production and distribution of clean marine fuels
COSCO Shipping Ports sets new monthly and quarterly container traffic records
Hong Kong
In the period April-June, 29.4 million TEUs were handled (+4.5%)
Sharp increase in cases of seafarers abandoning their ships
London
2,286 crew members from 222 ships involved as of early 2025
Global freight traffic saw strong growth in the first quarter of this year in anticipation of new tariffs
Global freight traffic saw strong growth in the first quarter of this year in anticipation of new tariffs
Geneva
North America saw the strongest quarterly growth in imports
In the port of Antwerp-Bruges containers and rolling stock are increasing and other types of goods are decreasing
Antwerp
Traffic congestion continues at the airport, with the situation on the landside becoming critical
A study denounces the delay of European ports in equipping themselves with cold ironing facilities.
Brussels/Pozzallo
The tender to electrify the docks of the port of Pozzallo has begun.
T&E proposes to include more non-EU transhipment ports to avoid carbon leakage
Brussels
The association calls on the EU Commission to reduce the current threshold of 65% of transhipment traffic
Federlogistica urges the immediate establishment of a control room on tariffs
Genoa
The aim is also to eliminate extra costs caused by bureaucracy.
Containerized cargo handled through the port of Singapore fell by 2.9% in the second quarter.
Singapore
Last May, ship transits through the Suez Canal decreased by -6.8%
Last May, ship transits through the Suez Canal decreased by -6.8%
Cairo
The negative trend continued in June and early July
Terminal operators are not at all satisfied with a policy that seems to have no interest in ports
Rome
Cognolato: It is essential to close the ongoing trials on several fronts.
The largest ship ever to dock at Cagliari's Porto Canale at the MITO terminal.
Milan
The container ship "MSC Venice" with a capacity of 16,652 TEU arrived yesterday
On 5 and 6 November in Lisbon a summit called by the ILA against automation in the maritime and port sector
On 5 and 6 November in Lisbon a summit called by the ILA against automation in the maritime and port sector
North Bergen/Metzingen
South Korean HD Hyundai, together with German NEURA Robotics, will develop and test welding robots in shipyards
The toll of the horrific attack on the bulk carrier Eternity C in the Red Sea is still uncertain.
Mandaluyong/London/Brussels
Joint statement by ICS, BIMCO, European Shipowners, Intercargo and Intertanko
In the first half of 2025, bulk cargo increased and general cargo decreased in the port of Marseille-Fos
Marseille
Cruise passengers increase by +5%
The Senate has approved the framework law on interports
Rome
UIR, gives the Italian interport system a modern, orderly and coherent regulatory framework
Carlo De Ruvo was elected president of Confetra
Rome
Among the challenges, the uncontrolled expansion of large logistics groups and their concentration
Number of pirate attacks on ships still high in the second quarter of 2025
Number of pirate attacks on ships still high in the second quarter of 2025
Kuala Lumpur
The number of acts of violence against crews is decreasing
Telemar and TNL Group merger agreement
Telemar and TNL Group merger agreement
Oslo/Athens/Paris
One of the top three operators in the OT/IoT services market for the maritime and superyacht sectors will be created
Attacks on ships in the Red Sea still cause deaths among seafarers
Portsmouth
Liberian-flagged bulk carrier " Eternity C" targeted
Canadian shipbuilding company Davie acquires second shipyard in Finland
Helsinki/Pori
It will buy the Enersense Offshore shipyard
Amendment on Port Labor Supply Agencies Approved
Rome
Immediate transformation into Agencies authorised to provide temporary port work
Salvini appoints a manager of a private shipping company from Campania as president of the regional AdSP
Rome
This is Eliseo Cuccaro, CEO of Alilauro
Extend the application of the 0.1% sulphur limit in marine fuels globally
Extend the application of the 0.1% sulphur limit in marine fuels globally
Berlin
This is proposed by an analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation
IMO and EU condemn renewed attacks on ships in the Red Sea
London/Brussels
Dominguez: New violation of international law and freedom of navigation
In the second quarter of this year, Finnlines' revenues decreased by -5.0%.
Helsinki
Net profit of 26.1 million euros (+7.7%)
Container traffic in the Port of New York remained stable in the April-June quarter.
New York
An increase of +4.9% was recorded in the first half of 2025
The Chamber of Deputies approves the appointment of the presidents of five Port System Authorities.
Rome
They are Davide Gariglio, Francesco Rizzo, Eliseo Cuccaro, Francesco Benevolo and Giovanni Gugliotti
Latrofa appointed extraordinary commissioner of the Port Authority of the Central-Northern Tyrrhenian Sea
Rome
Ministerial decree signed
The PNRR tender for interports has been reopened.
Rome
Resources available amounting to 2.2 million euros
Port of Livorno: Workers are the priority in the LTM crisis
Livorno
UPS's quarterly earnings performance declines
Atlanta
Net income in the April-June quarter was $1.28 billion (-8.9%)
Approval for the 2025 budget variation of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Sea Port Authority.
Gioia Tauro
500 thousand euros for the 49% share held by the Port Agency company
FHP Group acquires the remaining 10% stake in Lotras
Milan/Foggia
The integration between Lotras and CFI Intermodal will begin to create FHP Intermodal.
OITAF scientific document on good practices in the logistics and transport of fresh fruit and vegetables
Milan
The Northern Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority has joined the PLIKA
Livorno
Platform dedicated to training, innovation and knowledge sharing in the logistics and port sectors
Matteo Paroli's nomination as president of the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority has been signed.
Rome
He has a degree in law and a specialization in administrative law.
Container throughput increases in Haropa Port, while bulk cargo decreases.
Le Havre
In the first half of this year, containers were 1.51 million TEUs (+4%)
Bureau Veritas reports a 9.8% quarterly increase in revenues in the Marine & Offshore segment
Courbevoie
Kalmar and Konecranes increase new orders in the April-June quarter
Helsinki
The turnover of the two Finnish companies is slightly increasing
Container traffic in the port of Barcelona fell by 12.2% in the second quarter.
Barcelona
Assiterminal threatens a new wave of appeals against regulations it believes are damaging to port operations
Genoa
2M Logistics signs an agreement with Salerno-based Gallozzi
Barendrecht
The Dutch company will represent GF Logistics, a subsidiary of the Italian group, in the Benelux region.
Swiss company Kuehne+Nagel's quarterly profits fell
Schindellegi
In the period April-June of this year, net turnover grew by +1.7%
Yang Ming orders three 8,000 TEU container ships from Nihon Shipyard and Imabari Shipbuilding
Keelung/Imabari
Contract valued at $351.3-394.5 million
Italia Nostra reiterates its strong concerns about the construction of the Fiumicino-Isola Sacra port.
Rome
European maritime cities, destinations for cruise tourism - the association highlights - denounce the phenomenon of over-tourism in the cruise sector
Egypt's first automotive terminal has come into operation at Port Said East.
East Port Said
It can accommodate two car carriers at the same time
SAILING LIST
Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
Tepsa has acquired a liquid bulk terminal in the port of Rotterdam.
Singapore/Rotterdam
It was sold by Global Energy Storage Holdings
The Spinelli Group has approved its 2024 sustainability report.
Genoa
Of the company's 616 direct employees, 49% are under the age of 50.
In the second quarter of this year, cargo traffic in Turkish ports grew by +1.6%
Ankara
Cargoes to and from Italy amounted to 12.7 million tons (+10.1%)
Extension of the Simplified Logistics Zone for Genoa Ports and Dry Ports to the Savona, Vado Ligure, and Bergeggi areas.
Genoa
Approval from the ZLS Steering Committee
Isotta Fraschini Motori has inaugurated a new production line for hydrogen fuel cell systems in Bari.
Trieste
They will be used for naval and land solutions
The Grande Shanghai , the Grimaldi Group's first ammonia-ready car carrier, has been christened.
Naples
It has a load capacity of 9,000 CEUs.
The Port of Genoa, FILT, and UILT have declared a five-day strike at the Bettolo Terminal.
Genoa
Fit Cisl Liguria expressed solidarity with the workers
The tender for the dredging of the commercial dock basin at the port of Ancona has been published.
Ancona
The removal of approximately 730 thousand cubic meters of sediment is planned
Tender for the restoration and enhancement of docks 32 and 33 in the Deep Sea Zone of the port of Savona
Genoa
An investment of over 6.7 million euros is expected
There are 1,100 workers in Palermo directly employed in the seaside tourism sector
Palermo
This year, cruise traffic is expected to grow by 9.4% in the port of the Sicilian capital.
Six-month growth of +9% in freight on the St. Petersburg-India/China maritime route
Fly
FESCO operates six vessels in the service
Port of Trieste: Special Commissioner Gurrieri under investigation for money laundering
Trieste
I am certain - he declared - that I can demonstrate that I acted legally, in full transparency.
Vard signs new contract for the construction of two CSOVs
Trieste
The vessels will be used to support operations in the offshore wind sector
UIR welcomes the publication of the tender for the digitalization of the logistics chain.
Rome
Di Caterina (ALIS): a concrete tool that enhances the needs of businesses and strengthens the logistics system
GNV celebrated its first ten years of activity on the Italy-Albania route
Durres
During the period, the company's ships carried over 1.25 million passengers
A shipment of over 1.2 tons of marijuana was seized at the port of Gioia Tauro.
Reggio Calabria/Catanzaro
Members of a criminal organization that imported drugs from South America through European ports and airports have been arrested.
Yang Ming orders Hanwha Ocean to build seven 15,000 TEU dual-fuel containerships
Keelung
They will be delivered between 2028 and 2029
Walden to sell healthcare logistics business to Yusen Logistics
Paris
Exclusive negotiations announced
Solinas (Sardinian Action Party) is not at all satisfied with the state of Sardinian ports
Cagliari
The immediate establishment of a special commission is urged
ANSI welcomes the introduction of the information dashboard for managing private procurement contracts in logistics.
Rome
D'Angelo: it will allow the country to take another step forward
Russo (Confcommercio): excluding road transport from the PNRR funding was shortsighted.
Rome
First bulletin from the Freight Insights Observatory produced by the National Center for Sustainable Mobility
ABB Group posts sharp growth in quarterly financial and business performance
Zurich
In the period April-June the value of new orders grew by +16.0%
Informal consultations have begun on the preliminary proposal for the new Ancona Port Master Plan.
Ancona
Eleven meetings scheduled for July
Program agreement for preparatory and functional interventions for the construction of the bridge over the Strait of Messina
Rome
It was signed today in Rome
Project to develop an ecological station for the treatment of wastewater from ships
Naples
Initiative of the Neapolitan Group of the Cenere and Iello Landing
Assiterminal urges against bringing sediment from the Bagnoli dredging project into the port of Naples.
Genoa
Cognolato and Ferrari: It is essential to safeguard the full functionality of the commercial port's activities.
Container traffic at the Port of Long Beach fell 3.4% in the second quarter.
Long Beach
A decline of -16.4% was recorded in June
Paolo Pessina has been appointed vice president of Conftrasporto-Confcommercio.
Rome
He is president of the national federation of maritime agents and brokers
Container traffic in the port of Hong Kong decreased by -8.2% in the second quarter
Hong Kong
A decrease of -13.7% was recorded in June
Cuneo-based logistics company Nord Ovest is seeing growing financial results.
Wedge
Construction work on a new depot in Mondovì will be completed in early 2026.
Container traffic at the Port of Los Angeles grows driven by fears of new tariffs
Los Angeles
June saw the highest volume ever recorded for this month
The Management Committee of the Sardinia Sea Port Authority has adopted the DPSS
Cagliari
Green light for the concession to MITO and the appeal against the rejection of Olbia's dredging project.
Three events in Genoa for three new Explora Journeys cruise ships.
Genoa
A technical launch, a coin laying and the cutting of the first sheet metal were carried out at the Fincantieri shipyard
Grimaldi sells 5% of Terminal Darsena Toscana to Livorno Port Company
Naples/Livorno
Option to purchase an additional 5% of the share capital
Concession agreement signed that assigns management of the port of Tartous to DP World
Damascus
It has a lifespan of 30 years
Matteo Gasparato appointed president of the Northern Adriatic Sea Port Authority
Rome
He was appointed extraordinary commissioner of the same port authority
Meeting in Rome between the heads of ESPO and Assoporti
Rome
Among the topics addressed, the competitiveness of European ports in the current global context
Chinese airline OOCL reports quarterly decline in scheduled service revenues
Hong Kong
Cargo transported by the company's ships is increasing
Collaboration between the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority and the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority
Rome
Agreement with an initial duration of five years
Survey in Germany on the prospects of companies in the maritime, port and shipbuilding sectors
Hamburg
Shipowners are more concerned. Positive prospects for ports and shipyards.
Port of Augusta: Work begins on a third bridge connecting the island to the mainland.
Augusta
Work worth over 20 million euros
Vard signs contract with InkFish for new research vessel
Trieste
The deal is worth more than 200 million euros.
1.1 billion euros will be invested in the port of Hamburg to strengthen the container sector
Hamburg
Improving accessibility and port infrastructure in the Waltershofer Hafen area
Meyer Turku delivered the new Star of the Seas cruise ship to Royal Caribbean
Turku
It has a gross tonnage of 250,800 tons
ESPO calls for increased funding for ports under the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework
Brussels
The CEF programme funds have proven to be far from sufficient
Fincantieri delivers the new Oceania Allura cruise ship to Oceania Cruises.
Miami/Trieste
Two additional Sonata-class ships have been converted into orders.
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
Confindustria event on the sea economy in Rome on July 15th
Rome
The public meeting of the International Containers Studies Center will be held in Genoa on July 2nd
Genoa
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Why Malta is objecting to a new price cap on Russian oil
(timesofmalta.com)
US has its eye on Greek ports
(Kathimerini)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
Uniport: Bringing debris from Bagnoli to the port of Naples would postpone long-awaited dredging.
Rome
Legora de Feo: It's necessary to find alternative solutions.
Taiwanese companies Evergreen, Yang Ming and WHL saw sharp declines in quarterly revenues.
Keelung/Taipei
In the period April-June it fell by -18.7%, -26.5% and -8.6% respectively
The establishment of the Information Dashboard for the management of private procurement contracts in logistics has been approved.
In May, freight traffic in the port of Ravenna grew by +1.4%
Ravenna
Bulk cargo is on the rise. Miscellaneous cargo is on the decline.
EU approves joint purchase of port equipment by terminal operators
Brussels
Joint definition of minimum technical specifications of equipment is also permitted
Serbian energy group EPS will import coal through the Montenegrin port of Bar
Bar
Currently imports from Indonesia pass through the port of Constanta
Fincantieri Foundation and Luiss University launch a project to strengthen the safety of underwater infrastructure.
Trieste
Among the objectives, contribute to the definition of a specific regulatory framework
Freewheeling: The government's U-turn on anti-mafia controls in the road haulage sector is a welcome development.
Modena
Franchini: If the government has realized it made a mistake, that's good news.
Agostinelli (AdSP Tirreno Meridionale e Ionio): the amendment that allows for the early transformation of the Gioia Tauro Port Agency is extremely important.
Confindustria's event on the maritime economy will take place in Rome on July 15th.
Rome
The confederation's strategic document on the sector will be presented
Kerala seeks $1.1 billion from MSC in damages over MSC Elsa 3 sinking
Thiruvananthapuram
Temporary detention of the vessel "MSC Akuteta II" granted
Trasportounito requests the cancellation of the renewal procedure of the Central Committee of the Register of Hauliers
Rome
New seizure of a load of cocaine in the port of Gioia Tauro
Reggio Calabria
16 bags containing 417 kilos of drugs were found in a container
MOL and Kinetics to build world's first floating data center
Tokyo
It will be installed on a vessel of 9,731 gross tonnage
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