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Contship Italy closes the 2012 with an increase of the traffic in the terminals of transhipment and a decrease in the terminals gateway
Cecilia Eckelmann-Battistello: "2013 more complex than seen in the years will be a year still precedence"
January 10, 2013
Last year Contship Italy has recorded an increment of the containerized trade enlivened from the terminals managed from the group in the ports specialized in transhipment of Gioia Tauro and Cagliari and a decrease of the volumes in the gateways of La Spezia, Ravenna and Salerno. The detail, in the 2012 Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) of Gioia Tauro has enlivened 2.721.000 container teu (+18% on 2011), the Cagliari International Container Terminal (CICT) 582,000 teu (+4%), La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) 990,000 teu (- 9%), the Terminal Container Ravenna (TCR) 191,000 teu (- 4%) and Salerno Container Terminal (SCT) 147,000 teu (- 14%).
Contship Italy has explained that the achieved satisfactory operating results in 2012 regarding the macroeconomic context are obtained graces to an acceleration that has characterized the second half of the year of the year.
In the business of the intermodal transport, last year Oceanogate Italy, the new society of railway traction of the group for the transport of the container that is introduced 28th March, has operated a total of 817.000 train-km. The volumes transported from the Sogemar and of the Hannibal consolidate moreover, the multimodali operators of the group: in the 2012 volumes transported from the national and international intermodal Network of the Sogemar and the Hannibal they have remained substantially stable (247,000 teu regarding 250.000 in 2011) with beyond 3.900 operated trains block.
The president of Contship Italy previews that the next months will be irti of difficulty: "2013 - Cecilia Eckelmann-Battistello has explained - will be a year still more complex than seen in the years precedence when the effects of the crisis have begun to manifest themselves. In Italy - it has added - the Contship Group continues own development plan in all the marine terminals and the field of the intermodal transport and wishes a greater attention from the institutions towards a field that generates job and development from many years. A field that supports the competitiveness of national the economic woven one with huge investments".
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