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the furtiveness of the current government and the uncertainty on the formation of the new executive induces also Assoporti to appeal to Napolitano
The association of the Harbour Authorities asks the President of the Republic a fort engagement for the next government for the portualità
March 18, 2013

The uncertainties on the formation of a new government and the certainty that the current executive and its members, now almost fugitives, difficultly will take part of the next governmental administration more and more often induce the representative organisms of woven the economic and social Italian to turn own requests to the President of the Republic being recognized to it the role of current only institutional interlocutor of the society.

Also the Association of the Italian Ports (Assoporti), only a month from the demands for attention regarding the national portualità turned to the government and the parliament ( on 13 February 2013), evidently being worried that they have fallen in the empty one has appealed now Giorgio Napolitano in order to ask a fort engagement for the next government on the topic of I throw again of the ports and, through the affirmation of their strategic role, of the entire logistic row of the Country.

In a letter addressed to the President of the Republic, that we below publish, president of Assoporti, Luigi Merlo, denunciation the lacked valorization, if the evident penalization of the ports in the action of the governments who are succeduti to the guide of the country and "does not throw again" instead the strategic centrality of the ports with two documents that assume the acknowledgment of a function guide of the entire system of logistics and mobility.

In the letter some proposals introduced last month to the government and to the parliament are detailed more precisely. Assoporti asks with force the government who will come the acknowledgment of that managerial autonomy (strongly limited - Merlon remembers - from the recent provisions) and financial institution, that they represent indispensable conditions in order to operate. And therefore to remove improper comparisons to Public Administration, beginning from those reported employee own, to strengthen the role of coordination of the various subjects private publics and in the harbour phase attributing to the Harbour Authorities the possibility to graduate some costs, at least until the overcoming of the more difficult phase of the crisis and the power of planning, programming and realization of the infrastructural participations in the ports and for the connections between the ports, the guiding ones
street and railway, the logistic nodes insides; in this optical president of the Harbour Authority or however same Harbour Autorità must effectively become the agency in charge of the efficient one and coordinated course of all the activities in port, are those which are carried out to earth are those which they carry out on the side sea, are of the activities carried out in market regime, are features of activity of Public Administration.

Assoporti restates also the necessity of a new strategic vision of the logistic which subject Harbour Authority of area (until becoming Harbour Authority to regional competences) co-star of the policies of order of the territory, that it has the effective coordination of the various subjects, that can put into effect an integration between ports practically and interpose to you; to contribute to the planning and realization of the infrastructural participations in the ports and for the connections between the ports, guiding street and the railway ones, the logistic nodes insides; to determine and to graduate the costs correspondents to it I use of the infrastructure and other costs.

In the immediate Assoporti it asks: the partial and temporary control of the social burdens of the authorized enterprises former articles. 16, 17 and 18, law 84/94; a reduction of the octrois of the used energetic produced ones from exclusively operating means in harbour areas; the fixation of sure and homogenous rules in topic of IMU on the entrusted marine state property assets in concession.

The Harbour Authorities ask also the immediate elaboration for a strategic plan of development of the logistic system, pivoted on the national portualità; that it presupposes an immediate reflection on the model of governance of the Harbour Authorities and on the necessity to make of the logistic subject Harbour Authorities of area in the within of the policies of order of the territory. This also in the optical of the new vision of net TENT-T.

Taking for granted that the "public hand" is, and it will continue to being, the main investor in the field of transport infrastructures, the president of Assoporti asks to concentrate the resources on the great investments already progettualmente and financially defined, therefore cantierabili in times breviums; supported from solid analyses adaptation costs/benefits let alone on the projects dimiglioramento//innovative maintenance, that they facilitate and they consolidate current flows.


ASSOPORTI

"Priority of the Harbour Authorities for the future Government"
Ulterior proposals

In last part of the document of Assoporti "Priority of the Harbour Authorities for future Government" 12.2.2013, was proposed to the same one to start a reflection on topics that, also constituting "second phase" regarding more punctual and immediate participations of held of the field, have strategic capacity: elaboration of a strategic plan of development of the which pivoted logistic system on the portualità; adaptation of the model of government of the ports; adaptation of the level of autonomy financial institution for the infrastructural increase.

On these arguments, than they are strongly interlaced between they and they have addentellati to European level, we indicate, below, first proposals.


Elaboration of a strategic plan of development of the which pivoted logistic system on the portualità.

This objective joins rightfully in the process of review of the transeuropee nets of transport that, evolving itself from guiding infra-EU to instrument of projection of the EU towards outside, the new markets, must necessarily be pivoted on the infrastructures that allow those projections, airports and, for that of interest, carry first of all.

Consequence of this is the requirement to aim at the adaptation and the increase of harbour infrastructures to service of flows from beyond Suez. (Far East), but also from the fronts south and east of the basin of the Mediterranean, and on the street and railway connections between guiding large ports and of those modalities, with detail with regard to the directed terrestrial nets beyond frontier.

These objectives appear first of all functional to the ports of call that would have to be characterized as nodes of the net "Core" TRY.

For other back it cannot neither be forgotten that the new vision of net TRIES that it is gone prefiguring, has also "a total" level "comprehensive" or. The realization of the net of this level, also if expectably entrusted to the responsibility of every Member States, is instrument that according to appears indispensable a balanced development of every area of the single Countries and after all of entire the EU.

Orography of the Italian peninsula, the length of its coasts, the absence of great rivers, the city dispersion and of the productive woven one, the structural deficiency of the rail shipment (and in immense areas of the highway guiding south also of worthy of this name), is all factors that impose to reserve maximum attention to the conservation and the adaptation of a patrimony of diffuse portualità (that it is also net of enterprises manufacturers of services and important occupational truths), intended which system of nodes in order to support bound marine connections with the great islands and alternative marine connections to the "all road", and crocieristici poles.

In consideration of the variety of objectives and general the economic situation, the necessary next passage is to characterize a priority graduation: between the same macros objectives and/or single specific actions.

Taking for granted that the "public hand" is, and it will continue to being, the main investor in the field of infrastructures of transport (given the low yields of the investment - also in the medium period - and being the current conjuncture of the bank system, engaged in a phase of recapitalization), seems indispensable to concentrate themselves and or to prioritarizzare:

  • great investments already progettualmente and financially defined, therefore cantierabili in times breviums; supported from solid analyses it costs/benefits and economic-financial plans opportunely asserted; accompanied entrepreneurial development plans such to guarantee additional flows of traffic;
  • improvement projects/adaptation/innovative maintenance, that they facilitate and they consolidate current flows.
The punctual choice evidently not painless in is determined areas, in particular for that it concerns the progettualità of greater relief, attended various the great elaborated projects or that they are being defined in insistent ports on same it arches coastal.
Any choice in this segment seems therefore must also be inserted in a picture of priority shared with actors of the policies of the territory and the great infrastructures that are not properly harbour (Regions, RFI, ANAS, Freeways, etc) and, as inserted in a national programming, it imposes to recognize the role of last request to the State.
Moreover, the choices (and the priorities) will have to be coherent and strongly berthed to the strategic designs of European level in transport infrastructure topic.



Adaptation of the level of autonomy financial institution for the infrastructural increase, the topic of the resources.

Al topic of the development of the logistic system, is connected that of the resources directly.

Care has already been said the prevalence, also in the medium period, of the public resources.
For other back it does not seem opportune to bring up again the choice and the demand for urgent adaptation of the level of the autonomy financial institution of the ports, than it cannot be in the currently previewed annual limit of 70 million, but it goes carried at least to 3% of the VAT on the carried out operations of import in the ports.
Neither but it can be ignored that an autonomy financial institution tied alI'VAT on the operations of import generates, for every port of call, resources that only partially correspond to its relief and the level of its total traffics. Therefore a deepened meditation also appears indispensable on systems that do not attribute to every port resources, also in the presence of traffics. It is thought to such with regard to the system of the “taxes in subscription”, whose alternative could be that (analogous to how much you happen in the Spanish ports) of taxes with progressive reductions to increasing of the number of the touched ones; or of taxes which proportioned to the dwell time of the ships to the moorings, or also to the dwell times of the goods in port.


Adaptation of the model of government of the ports.

The argument frequently is faced assuming to comparison models “European”.
Moreover, very to see, in fact European references for this aspect do not exist.
Every model frequently is different from Country to Country and (in particular in the not Mediterranean States) also inside of the same Country.

The element partially unifies and, considers itself, characterizing of some systems of the European depositor north, is the effective autonomy of the organisms of government of the single ports and their being, in the substance;

  • only subject of government. So that, for example, the Harbour Authority of Rotterdam incorporates to its inside also the “member” marine Authority;
  • subject in a position to developing logistic initiatives in collaboration with public and/or private entities in the harbour extra territories; to place in being political commercial united to the operators of own port and to activate initiatives in other ports, so that it becomes element of reference of a Network of which it is hinge.
If an European” choice is opportune “, in such sense it would seem necessary to address the model of management of our ports.
With this objective, which considered also of the understandings of the EU in topic of port policy, they would not seem but compatible returns to the commistioni between role of regolator and role of enterprise.
Vice versa it would turn out strengthened, indeed essential, in that vision of logistic subject Harbour Authority of area co-star of the policies of order of the territory, the requirement to lead back in head to AP the effective coordination of the various subjects private publics and in the harbour phase, allowing to it of: to adopt measures understandings, in concrete terms, to compensate and to place remedy to deficiencies of agencies and offices that operate offering services and administrative activities that complete the harbour phase eg. (customs, marine health, etc); to put into effect integration between ports and to interpose to you; to contribute to the planning and realization of the infrastructural participations in the ports and for the connections between the ports, guiding street and the railway ones, the logistic nodes insides; to determine and to graduate the costs correspondents to it I use of the infrastructure and other harbour costs, obviously in the respect of the principle “who uses wage” (difficultly derogabile according to addresses EU).

This new (more elevated) vision of AP is not moreover bound to the dimension of a port. AP is and remains an administration model.

The role of logistic subject of area and protagonist of the policies of order of the territory, prescinds from weights and quantitative measures, save the necessity (intransgressible) of economic self-sufficiency of structure AP.

Obviously this cannot motivate proliferating of AP. Rather, instead, it would have to induce, in a rationalization logic, to favor, whereby of ravvisi the possibility/opportunity/convenience, the attribution to AP of tasks of administration of the regional portualità and to estimate forms of aggregations between Harbour Authorities, where shared from single ports and administrations of the territory.

15.3.2013
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Genoa Port Terminal concession renewal approved until 2054
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Spain's Boluda acquires Transfesa's intermodal rail freight services.
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Rheinmetall to enter naval shipbuilding sector by acquiring Naval Vessels Lürssen
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HMM signs new 10-year contract with Vale for iron ore transport
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The Campania Port Authority reaches an agreement with UNIPORT and Assiterminal
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Hong Kong
The average selling price dropped by -3.8%
The new two-masted ro-ro ship Neoliner Origin will arrive in Livorno tomorrow.
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The refinancing of the Setramar group's capital structure has been completed.
Ravenna
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Liguori's term as head of the Trieste Port Authority has been extended.
Rome
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Agreement to complete electrification work on the docks at the port of Gioia Tauro
Gioia Tauro
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Milan
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Port of Livorno: Protests over Gaza must not block operations.
Livorno
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Milan
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Genoa
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Rome
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Request for information from prefects, port authorities, and port authorities
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Vienna
Only domestic traffic is growing
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Rozzano
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Milan
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Livorno
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The EIB is financing Phase A of Genoa's new breakwater with €300 million.
Luxembourg
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Valencia
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The project for the expansion, safety improvements, and extraordinary maintenance of the port of Pozzallo has been presented.
Pozzallo
It provides for the construction of the breakwater arm
Fincantieri delivers the new Star Princess cruise ship to Princess Cruises
Monfalcone
It has a gross tonnage of 177,800 tons and a capacity of 4,300 passengers.
A seminar on the new law on interports will be held in Milan on October 2nd.
Milan
It is organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Padua
Filt Cgil calls on port administrators and businesses to join the action against the Palestinian massacre.
Rome
This burden – the union highlighted – cannot be placed solely on the shoulders of dock workers.
The agreement between the Italian Merchant Marine Academy Foundation and the NATO Center in La Spezia has been renewed.
Genoa
The collaboration signed in 2023 has been confirmed
Fischer & Rechsteiner and Gimax International acquire BCUBE's Freight Forwarding business.
Genoa
The completion of the transaction is expected in the next few days
Fermerci outlines a dramatic scenario for the European rail freight transport sector
Rome
Rizzi: There is a real risk of a shift towards exclusively road transport.
Eni completes the sale of a 30% stake in the Baleine project in Ivory Coast to Vitol.
San Donato Milanese
The field was discovered in 2021 and production started in 2023
Sogedim opens a new branch in Modena
Mesero
Initially, the activity will be dedicated exclusively to UK export traffic and will then extend to other European markets.
The new PCTC Grande Svezia has joined the Grimaldi Group's fleet.
Naples
It has a maximum capacity of 9,000 ceu
The Cagliari City Council approves its opinion on the Sardinian Ports Development Plan.
Cagliari
Green light unanimously
The railway sector contributes 1.4% of the European Union's GDP.
Brussels
Study commissioned by CER
In the port of Naples, the Coast Guard has detained the bulk carrier Tanais Dream.
Naples
Serious irregularities found on board
Agreement to accelerate the implementation of robotics in Fincantieri's production processes
Trieste
It was signed with the Friulian Idea Prototipi
Sergio Liardo is the new general commander of the Port Authority Corps - Coast Guard
Rome
He takes over from Admiral Nicola Carlone
DBA to supply new Terminal Operating System for Georgia's Batumi Port
Villorba
The project includes all phases of development, testing and operational testing
Attack on a ship in the Gulf of Aden
Portsmouth
The captain reported hearing an impact in the water and an explosion
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Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
Danilo Ricci has been appointed managing director of Tarros Line.
La Spezia
He has held various positions in Italy and abroad within the group
Permanent discussion table between Confindustria Nautica and Federagenti
Genoa
This is provided for in an agreement signed today in Genoa
In the first half of 2025, cruise traffic in Italian ports grew by +6%
Venice
The twelfth edition of Italian Cruise Day will be held in Catania on October 24th.
SAL Heavy Lift buys two semi-submersible vessels from Pan Ocean
Hamburg
They were built in 2008 and 2012
30% of Sangritana Cargo will be acquired by the Marche-based company Transadriatico
The Eagle
The sale will be completed in the next few days
The eighth edition of "A Sea of Switzerland" will be held in Lugano on October 6th.
Lugano
Forum on economic and logistical integration between Ligurian ports, the Northwest manufacturing area, and Switzerland
DEME orders new cable-laying vessel from Singapore-based PaxOcean
Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht
It will be built in the Chinese shipyard of Zhoushan
Assoporti will meet at RemTech EXPO 2025 to discuss the green transition in Italian ports.
Ferrara
The Smart Ports Award was awarded to three Port System Authorities
The first shipment of Syrian oil in 14 years arrives at the port of Trieste.
London
Part of the cargo - S&P Global Commodity Insights reports - was unloaded at the Sardinian terminal of Sarroch
In August, freight traffic in the port of Taranto grew by +20.3%
Taranto
The ferry "Drea" was also rejected by the Apulian port, where however it is temporarily stopped
Container traffic at the Port of Los Angeles remained stable in August.
Los Angeles
Volumes expected to decline in the remainder of 2025
Meeting between the port authorities of Jacksonville and Livorno
Livorno
Among the objectives, to start one or more direct services between the two ports
Italian State Railways and ENAC sign an agreement for the use of drones in infrastructure monitoring.
Rome
They will also be used to fly over sections of the railway and road network that would otherwise be difficult to monitor.
A.SPE.DO, the port of La Spezia is essential to ensuring employment, development, and a future for the local economy.
La Spezia
Landolfi: We cannot afford to underestimate its value.
The MIT meets with the heads of the Italian AdSPs
Rome
Meeting on the government's strategic vision for the sector and port reform
Yang Ming orders Hanwha Ocean Co. to build seven 15,880 TEU container ships
Keelung
They will be delivered between 2028 and 2029
Over 40 expressions of interest have been received for the development of the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk.
Kiev
Today the first meeting of the tender commission
The first commercial ship is expected at the public dock in Largo Trattaroli in Ravenna.
Ravenna
The car carrier "AICC Huanghu" is coming soon
Container traffic at the Port of Long Beach decreased by 1.3% last month.
Long Beach
Empty containers are increasing. Full containers are decreasing.
Assiterminal's Terminal Road Show is starting
Genoa
Cognolato: We want to strengthen our ties with local communities and territories.
Assoporti, the Italian ports' cruise offerings presented at the Seatrade Europe fair.
Hamburg
Giampieri: We are leaders in the Mediterranean area and in Europe
Commander Claudio Tomei, USCLAC president from 2012 to 2024, has passed away.
Viareggio
His strong commitment to improving the working conditions of Italian seafarers
In the first quarter of 2025, cargo traffic in Greek ports grew by +1.4%
Piraeus
Passengers down by -1.1%
HD Hyundai Samho Orders Four New Container Ships
Seoul
Order worth approximately 468 million dollars
Trieste: Fraudulent bankruptcy in the shipbuilding sector
Trieste
Investigation into a company based in Palermo
Container traffic in the port of Hong Kong fell by 7.4% in August.
Hong Kong
In the first eight months of 2025 the decline was -3.8%
BigLift Shipping and CY Shipping order two additional heavy lift vessels
Amsterdam
Order placed at Chinese shipyard Jing Jiang Nanyang Shipbuilding Co.
Container traffic at the port of Singapore continued to decline in August
Singapore
Total volume of goods increased by +1.1%
The Charthage ferry was placed under administrative detention in the port of Genoa
Genoa
A Coast Guard inspection found numerous deficiencies
Disney Cruise Line's largest ship's debut delayed by three months
Lake Buena Vista
Construction delays force the maiden voyage to be postponed until March 10th.
Shell to supply liquefied biomethane to Hapag-Lloyd containerships
Hamburg
Agreement effective immediately
Andrea Zoratti has been appointed general manager of Hub Telematica
Genoa
The company is controlled by Assagenti and Spediporto
Jotun and Messina sign agreement to improve the environmental and commercial performance of ships.
Genoa
The "Jolly Rosa" vessel will use the Hull Skating Solutions solution
PSA Genova Pra' announces the hiring of 25 people dedicated to container handling.
Genoa
Ferrari: International markets have changed profoundly
CMA CGM will not apply surcharges for new US taxes on Chinese vessels and Chinese services
Marseille
The rates announced by the USTR in April will apply from October 14th.
South Korean HJ Shipbuilding wins orders for four 8,850 TEU containerships
Busan
Orders with a total value of approximately 461 million dollars
Conference: "Waiting and Delays in Road Transport: Logistics in Check"
Genoa
Organized by Trasportounito, it will be held on September 26th in Genoa
GNV has inaugurated a new office in Barcelona
Barcelona
The company currently has 52 employees throughout Spain.
Port of Trieste: EU funding for two new projects
Trieste
Resources with a total value of 1.7 million euros
Filt Cgil, the Flotilla incident is serious. Dockworkers are ready to mobilize.
Rome
Union announces action if aid is not allowed to reach Gaza
Stena Line to buy Latvian port operator Terrabalt
Gothenburg
It handles rolling stock, bulk cargo, and general cargo traffic in the port of Liepaja.
In the first eight months of 2025, container traffic in the port of Gioia Tauro grew by +10.6%
Gioia Tauro
2,912,943 TEUs were handled
Meyer Turku begins construction of Royal Caribbean's fourth "Icon"-class cruise ship
Miami/Turku
It will be delivered in 2027
More than one in ten maritime shipments has shortages
Washington
This is what a report by the World Shipping Council has revealed, highlighting the safety risks
Last July, traffic in the port of Ravenna increased by +3.8%
Ravenna
In the first seven months of 2025, growth was +5.4%
In the first quarter of 2025, freight traffic in Belgian ports fell by -3.2%.
Brussels
Landings down 1.3% and embarkations down 5.4%
Product tanker High Fidelity rescues 38 migrants on a drifting dinghy
Rome
Intervention in the south of the island of Crete
GES and RINA sign agreement to develop a prototype of a new hydrogen battery
Rovereto/Genoa
PSA's second phase of container terminal at Mumbai Port inaugurated
Singapore
Annual traffic capacity will increase to 4.8 million TEUs
The conference "EU ETS - Perspectives and Opportunities for Decarbonization in the Maritime Sector" will be held in Palermo.
Rome
It will be held on September 18th and 19th
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
A seminar on the new law on interports will be held in Milan on October 2nd.
Milan
It is organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Padua
The eighth edition of "A Sea of Switzerland" will be held in Lugano on October 6th.
Lugano
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Korean Firms Reassess U.S. Investments After Mass Immigration Raid
(The Korea Bizwire)
Russia's infrastructure development plan aims to build 17 marine terminals by 2036
(Interfax)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
Fincantieri and PGZ sign an agreement to support the modernization of the Polish Navy
Trieste
The third LSS section for Chantiers de l'Atlantique was launched in Castellammare di Stabia.
In the US, funding for wind energy development projects in ports is being cut.
Washington
Resources worth $679 million will be reallocated for port infrastructure upgrades
From January 1st, Kombiverkehr will operate the PKV intermodal terminal in the port of Duisburg.
Frankfurt am Main
It has a traffic capacity of approximately 200 thousand intermodal units per year.
Wallenius Marine and ABB form Overseas joint venture
Stockholm
The aim is to accelerate the launch of the platform of the same name for improving fleet performance.
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has asked the Region to agree on the appointment of Bagalà as president of the Sardinian Port Authority.
Rome
He is currently the extraordinary commissioner of the same body
DHL eCommerce has acquired a minority stake in Saudi Arabia's AJEX Logistics Services.
Bonn/Riyadh
The Middle Eastern company has two thousand employees
CMPort's port terminals handled record container traffic in the second quarter
Hong Kong
In the first six months of 2025 the total was 78.8 million TEUs (+4.3%)
Confitarma approves the decree on advanced training for tanker seafarers.
Rome
Applause to the General Command of the Port Authority Corps
Quarterly freight traffic in Moroccan ports increases
Tangier/Casablanca
In Tanger Med the growth was +17%
The board of directors of the Genoa-based Ente Bacini has been renewed.
Genoa
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