the ships of the Japanese "K" Linens return to the container Contship terminal of



After five years of absence the ships operated directly from the Japanese company Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha ("K" Linens) are returned to scale the port of landing to La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) of the group Contship Italy. Draft of portacontainer the employees in the service MD1 that connects the Far East with the Mediterranean, with touched to the ports of Qingdao, Shanghai, Ningbo, Yantian, Hong Kong, Shekou, Singapore, Suez, Pireo, La Spezia, Genoa, Barcelona, Valencia, Pireo, Suez, Singapore, Hong Kong.

It on August 1°, 2007 goes back the date in which the Akashi Bridge, the last ship of the Japanese company, it had berthed to. In the course of these years "K" Linens however have maintained own traffics in from Liguria terminal through various agreements of partnership. Today, in occasion of the arrival of Helsinki Bridge, before the portacontainer of the service MD1, Carlo Besozzi, president and managing director of "K" Italy Linens, and some of its main Italian customers have visited La Spezia Container Terminal. In the course of the official delivery of the plate memory to the captain of the portacontainer from 8.500 teu, Lorenzo Forcieri, president of the Harbour Authority of La Spezia, and Michele Giromini, general LSCT managers have introduced the development plan of the port container break as a result of the renewed which signed agreement of concession last October ( on 31 October 2012).

The Harbour Authority spezzina, Contship Italy and "K" Italy Linens has evidenced as the comparazione between the Akashi Bridge, a ship of 220 meters of length and 32 of width, and portacontainer Helsinki Bridge, long 335 meters and wide 46, reflects the change that has seen the Mediterranean Sea to accommodate ships always greater tonnage and as the berthing of this last ship and the return of portacontainer of "K" Linens in the terminal breaks LSCT confirms the ability to its infrastructures, in a position to accommodating the ships of last generation.

"Two years ago - Michele Giromini has commented - we have begun a program of modernization of the dock cranes and today we are the only terminal containers in the north of the Tyrrhenian Sea in a position to working at the same time on two ships from 14.000 teu and give beyond 9.500 teu thanks to the presence of five crane for 20 rows localized on the east part of the Fornelli Pier and four cranes for 18 rows more one for 16 rows on the part the west of Fornelli, where the plan of modernization of the cranes in the course of 2013 with the objective of being able will continue to always satisfy more the necessities of our customers. The dimension of the ships "K" Linens - it has continued Giromini - has grown shortly time and this new opportunity affords us to emphasize to this important customer that our terminal is already today in a position to accommodating the future. If "K" Linens had to employ ships of ulterior greater tonnage, then La Spezia will be able to become a natural choice. The terminal and all the system port are to your service".

"In the last year, considering the ships operated inside of alliance CKYH - Carlo Besozzi has explained - have increased our volumes to La Spezia of beyond 30%. The elevated quality and reliabilities of the offered services make of La Spezia the obliged choice in order to satisfy our customers who know to us and they appreciate us for the cure of the services that we dedicate they in Italy. Our customers can, in fact, benefit of the numerous railway connections that return the terminal of La Spezia the port to minor environmental impact between the main gateways in the South Europe".

"In last part of 2012 - the president of the harbour agency has declared, Lorenzo Forcieri - we had already perceived the signs of a resumption of vivacity and interest for our port and terminal LSCT, in particular. Last December, in fact, handling has marked a radical change of direction with an increase of 4.1% regarding the same month of 2011. We confide that the 2013 signs the start of a progressive economic resumption so as testified from this new important service K Line".