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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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In 2024, intermodal shipments handled by German Kombiverkehr decreased by -5%
Frankfurt am Main
Riedl: Intermodal transport must be supported also through incentives
In the fourth quarter of 2024, G20 trade recorded a conjunctural decline
Paris
Mixed performance of trade in services
The latest reading of the WTO Goods Trade Barometer shows a variable trend towards good
Geneva
Positive effect of temporary increase in trade possible in view of introduction of new trade policies
Trasportounito will propose a national haulage ban from March 31st
Rome
Longo: from the Ministry evanescent and contentless answers
The introduction of ESG standards represents a profound transformation for port companies
Rome
Attica Reports Record Revenue and Operating Performance in 2024
Athens
Profits down due to costs of merger with Anek and purchase of emission allowances
Man arrested in investigation into collision between Solong and Stena Immaculate
Southampton
The charge is manslaughter due to gross negligence
Beijing: Measures to revive US shipbuilding industry won't work
Beijing
New duties and tariffs - the government underlines - are harmful for both parties
Messina Gets $50M Funding to Support Full Container Investment
Genoa
Agreement with BPER Banca and Banca Popolare di Sondrio
The tanker Sounion attacked in August in the Red Sea has passed through the Suez Canal
Ismailia
Collision between two ships near the port of Hull
Southampton / Jacksonville / Rotterdam
Fires broke out on both units
In January, freight traffic in the port of Ravenna increased by +7.6%
Ravenna
Dry bulk and general cargo on the rise. Liquid bulk declines
Evergreen, Yang Ming and WHL's monthly revenue growth trend slows
Taipei/Keelung
In February, increases of +13.5%, +3.1% and +19.9% were recorded respectively
In 2024, containers transported by the fleet of the Chinese SITC increased by +10.7%
Hong Kong
Annual revenues up +25.9%
A shipment of 240 kg of cocaine was seized in the port of Genoa
Genoa
The drug came from South America
Assoporti presents new guidelines for inclusive communication
Rome
Giampieri: a valid tool for more effective, respectful and inclusive communication throughout the port area
German Schmitz Cargobull to acquire 48% of Polish GT Trailers
Munsterland
Both produce semi-trailers and logistics equipment
AP Moller Capital to acquire 40% of Philippine AC Logistics
Copenhagen
Agreement with Ayala Corporation which holds the entire capital of the company
Attica Holdings has sold the ro-pax ferry Kriti II built in 1979
Athens
Sold for $3.6 million, it will be dismantled at an EU-authorized shipyard
New economic and operational records for the ICTSI terminal group
Manila
Last year, container traffic handled by port terminals grew by +2.5%
Lauritzen Bulkers has bought Canadian Alexander & Blake
Copenhagen
The company operates ocean freight forwarding of dry bulk, break bulk and project cargo.
SAILING LIST
Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
Royal HaskoningDHV has bought the Scottish Arch Henderson
Aberdeen/Amersfoort
The Aberdeen company specialises in the design of marine works
Collaboration agreement between Saipem and Divento for floating wind in Italy
Milan
It foresees the use of STAR 1 technology for the construction of semi-submersible foundations
Global Ship Lease Reports Record Annual and Quarterly Financial Results
Athens
Revenues increased by +5.4% in 2024
Trump promises tax incentives for US shipbuilders
Washington
Creation of new Office of Shipbuilding announced
CMB.TECH invests $1.18 billion to acquire 40.8% of Golden Ocean
Antwerp
The Belgian company will buy the stake held by John Fredriksen's Hemen Holding
The partners of Interporto Toscano Amerigo Vespucci inject ten million into the company
Leghorn
In November the Board of Directors prepared a restructuring plan
Seabourn has sold the Seabourn Sojourn cruise ship to Mitsui Ocean Cruises
Seattle/Tokyo
It will be transferred to the Japanese company in the second half of 2026
ECG adopts a program to increase the safety of vehicle delivery to dealers
Brussels
Cristoforo Canavese dies at 76
Savona
Prominent figure of the Ligurian port system
The deed of acquisition of the historic building in Gaeta that will host the ITS Academy Caboto has been signed
At the PSA Venice - Vecon terminal, traditional diesel has been replaced with HVO biofuel
Genoa
Enables an 88.7% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions
In the port of Augusta, two port cranes have been moved to restore their functioning
Augusta
They are owned by the Port System Authority
The last diaphragm of the Galleria Salerno Porta Ovest road infrastructure has been demolished
Salerno
It directly connects the commercial port of the Campania city to the motorway junction
China's CMPort to Acquire 70% of Brazilian Terminal Operator Vast Infraestrutura
Hong Kong/Rio de Janeiro
Active in the port of Açu, it handles 30% of the national crude oil exports
Port of Gioia Tauro, concession renewed to Heidelberg Materials Italia Cementi
Joy Taurus
The duration of the contract has been increased from four to ten years
Construction of a new cruise terminal has begun in Antigua
St. John's
It will be completed by the middle of next year
Finnlines revenues increased by +2.7% in 2024
Helsinki
Pippingsköld confirms purchase of three additional new ro-pax vessels to enter service in 2028
Confirmed to Mercitalia Shunting & Terminal the railway shunting activity in the Interporto of Padua
Padua
Daniele Rossi appointed extraordinary commissioner of the AdSP of the Central-Northern Adriatic
Tarros appoints its own agent in Germany
The Spice
It is Global Liner Agencies, a company based in Stuttgart.
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
Tomorrow in Naples a conference of studies on the fight against illicit trafficking by sea
Naples
It will be held at the University of "Parthenope"
In Ancona the conference "The port as a strategic development hub for the territory"
Ancona
It is scheduled for February 11th
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Damen Mangalia Unionists Protest Friday Against Possible Closure
(The Romania Journal)
Govt. to woo top ten shipping liners in world for Colombo port expansion
(Daily Mirror)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Relazione del presidente Nicola Zaccheo
Roma, 18 settembre 2024
››› File
ESPO: Clean Industrial Deal is an important first step towards decarbonisation
Brussels
The plan was presented today by the European Commission
The TAR declares the appeal of Med Yacht Storage on the state concession in Vado Ligure inadmissible
Genoa
In France, employers are calling for a public-private coordination unit to limit the impact of strikes at ports
Paris
The aim is to find solutions quickly
The tender for the supply of temporary work in the ports of the Southern Adriatic AdSP has been completed
Bari
Leone: Ports will finally be able to count on a mutual assistance mechanism
The Central Adriatic Port Authority publishes the notice for incentives for the purchase of "green" port vehicles
Federagenti Youth Group Board of Directors Renewed
Rome
Filippo Bongiovanni has been appointed president
Augusta Due (Mednav group) returns to the newbuilding market with a 18,500 dwt tanker
Rome
It was built by the Chinese shipyard Fujian Southeast Shipbuilding Co.
2025 has started very badly for Spanish ports
Madrid
In January 43 million tons of goods were moved (-6.4%)
Infrastructure maintenance work begins in the port of Syracuse
Syracuse
Interventions with a total value of over 300 thousand euros
New Fincantieri-Edge agreement to develop solutions for the protection of underwater infrastructures
Abu Dhabi/Trieste
In the first nine months of 2024, freight traffic in Italian ports grew by +0.5%
Naples/Rome
Solid bulk and conventional cargo decrease. Growth in other sectors
MAIRE, Eni and Iren begin the authorization process for a circular methanol and hydrogen plant
Milan
Fritelli (Nextchem): Italian ports will be among the first in the world to be able to use the new ecological fuel
Maestripieri (CISL Liguria): the ports of Genoa and Savona-Vado need a president
Genoa
The airports - he denounced - are forced to operate in an absolute emergency regime
Nova Marine Carriers, Aug. Bolten and Ership Acquire Maja Stuwadoors Groep
Lugano
The Dutch company operates a bulk terminal in the port of Amsterdam
In 2024, container traffic in the port of Algeciras decreased by -0.5%
Algeciras/Valencia
The negative trend continued last month
Confitarma, maintenance of the simplified procedure for the enlistment of seafarers is a good thing
Rome
Neapolitan journalist Bianca D'Antonio dies at 83
Naples
Point of reference for courtesy and professionalism also for the shipping sector
The AdSP of the Eastern Ligurian Sea has joined the National Observatory for the Protection of the Sea
Rome
The organization promotes the valorization of the sea resource
Tomorrow in Naples a conference of studies on the fight against illicit trafficking by sea
Naples
It will be held at the University of "Parthenope"
Port of Los Angeles Hits New Container Traffic Peak for January
Los Angeles
Port of Livorno, in 2024 rail traffic grew by +10.4%
Leghorn
Rail share of freight volumes moved rose to 19%
Contract for the immersion in the Ancona reclamation basin of the dredging sediments of the ports of Fano and Numana
Ancona
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