Three Large Hooligan Carrier Container operated at the same time to terminal MCT of Gioia Tauro



Saturday slid in the port of Gioia Tauro, in spite of the adverse conditions weather, was newly at the same time anticipates three portacontainer of large-capacity. Al Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) of the group Contship Italy in fact is berthed and work Joyful MSC, MSC Ravenna and MSC Daniela, three Large Hooligan Carrier Container of the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) that they had respective the following draught in arrival and departure: 12,90 and 14,90 meters, 15,45 and 14,30 meters and 13,55 and 13,65 meters.

The Joyful MSC has carried out an ad call for the Lion service. The MSC Ravenna instead is employed regularly in the Silk service, while the MSC Daniela is used in the Dragon service. A fourth ULCC, the MSC Rosa M., would be due to arrive at the same time, but it has not happened for modifications to the operating priorities.

The group Contship Italy has emphasized as Gioia Tauro is "the only port in the Mediterranean in a position to already today offering this type of mega-operations that, thanks to own infrastructural equipment and of crane, return the operations of transhipment more and more reliable offering to the Network of services of own customers extremely competitive total connectivity". "To Gioia Tauro - the managing director of MCT, Domenico Bagalà has commented - this type of challenges is by now on the agenda and has been in some way ill-fated that the fourth mega ship is not berthed in contemporary to demonstration of the infrastructure availability for this type of operations of transhipment on wide scale. From years we have developed to all the necessary professionalities and know-how-how so as it is recognized to us by our customers. Together with the authorities of Gioia Tauro and the Calabria Region, than with determination they are promuovendo the project of Special the Economic Zone and the role of the port as gateway of income for the goods of the South Italy, we are ready to new and increasing challenges. From the deep South - it has added Bagalà - we not only throw again strong our engagement demonstrating our ability with the records of this weekend but emphasizing with force how much Gioia Tauro is an excellence of our Country and the transhipment in particular are an added value of our economy in a position to generating GDP and to hold to us coupled to dynamics of increase of all the European Countries".