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ESPO rejects the proposed new of regulations of the EU commission in harbour matter
According to the association, the heterogeneity of the harbour field returns the development very difficult of with of rules that goes beyond the guiding principles
September 30, 2013

The European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) has rejected the content of the new proposed legislative in introduced harbour matter last May from the EU commission, proposal that is examined for the first time today afternoon from the Commission Transports of the European Parliament (inforMARE of the 23 and 31 May 2013). The association has rejected the regulations proposal explaining to be worried that in its current form the normative new would hinder the activity of the more efficient ports.

"We receive with favor - the general secretary of ESPO, Isabelle Ryckbost has asserted - the fact that the Commission is taking note that the European ports are motor of increase. The European ports - it has observed - are found to face enormous challenges: volumes in increase, ships of always greater dimensions, spread of the globalization, increasing social and environmental pressure". The ports - it has emphasized Isabelle Ryckbost - "need politics who affords they to face these challenges, not rules that create ulterior burdens at the expense of the ports without a real benefit for the harbour industry or the users. We hope that the European politicians comprise our worries and intend to work with we to the aim to obtain a picture that ahead represents a step for every single port in Europe".

In its answer to the project of regulations on the ports, that we publish below, ESPO has specified that the text proposed from the EU commission faces some topics important in order to guarantee parity of conditions to the European ports, for example facing the issue of the transparency of the financing of the ports, recognizing the free performance of the harbour services, considering the fixation of the rates and requirement minimums for services harbour which important instruments of management of the ports. However - second the association of the European ports - the current proposal of the Commission is not satisfactory because it undermines these principles partially for example taking part - it has explained ESPO - in the decisional freedom of the ports and the Harbour Authorities to vary the rates based on the economic strategy of the management of the port, establishing as the Harbour ports and Authorities would have to deal with their customers, imposing ulterior administrative burdens at the expense of the ports that are not in competition on the European scene and creating an independent supervisory body.

According to the association, the heterogeneity of the European harbour field does not afford to frame all the ports and their organisms of management in rigid a legal picture, without some concession to their specificities and the particular role that the ports carry out for their national and regional economies. The differences of dimensions, geographic positioning, governance, activity, financial situation - it has found ESPO - return the development very difficult of with of rules that goes beyond the guiding principles. Moreover - for the association - placing of the limits to the commercial freedom of the European Harbour Authorities and interfering with the relative competences of governance, the regulations proposal could hinder the necessary transition of the European Harbour Authorities towards the function of promoters of dynamic ports and could get worse the status of ports that they offer already elevated performances.

The ESPO failure seems to be without appeal, at less than a stravolgimento of the proposal of regulations introduced from the EU commission, above all when the specific association that "the European ports do not see the regulations on the ports as an instrument in a position to improving the competitiveness of the ports". According to ESPO, in fact, "there are other factors, plus important, that they must be faced and that they can improve the level playing field in the harbour field: the home market of the marine transports, the environmental norms that interest the systems and the modalities of transport, the treacherous competition with the near Third-country and the onerous customs procedures".



Response from the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO)

to the Regulation proposal establishing to framework on market access to port services and financial transparency of ports


26 September 2013


Summary executive


On 23 May, the European Commission published to communication entitled Ports: an engine for growth and to Regulation proposal establishing to framework on market access to port services and financial transparency of ports.

Since the adoption of the Commission's proposal, ESPO members who are organised on to national level, have been assessing the concrete impact of the Regulation proposal. The conclusion of this process is that to there are very differing reactions among groups of countries ranging from the extremely negative to the somewhat positive. This result broadly reflects the diversity of European ports.

Positive ESPO believes that the European Union can be to force in strengthening port management and port development policy, by ensuring to level playing field and legal certainty on the one hand and fostering growth and development of ports on the other hand. Well-performing port authorities will unmistakably contribute to the ambition of Europe to establish to competitive and resource-efficient transport system.

Role ESPO welcomes in that respect that the Commission is recognizing the important ports are playing in Europe's economy. ESPO however believes that the Port Regulation proposal, as IT stands now will not lead to the hoped-for results. On the contrary, ESPO fears that the Commission's proposal in its current form, could make well performing European ports engines sputtering. Why?

  • The diversity of the European port sector makes IT impossible to frame all ports and their managing bodies within one stringent legal framework, without giving in on their specificity and on the particular role ports are playing for their national/regional economy.
  • By restricting the commercial freedom of EU port authorities and interfering in port-related governance competences, the Regulation proposal could hamper the necessary transition of European port authorities towards dynamic port developers and worsen the position of ports which are already high performing.
Nevertheless, ESPO remains continuous opens to the dialogue with the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Member States in view of reaching an agreement on to policy that guarantees the respect of the while Treaty rules allowing European ports to develop further as engines of growth and development for their region and the European economy as to whole.


Understanding European ports and port authorities


To allow to better understanding of ESPO's position on the proposed regulation, IT is important to understand European ports and port authorities and to see what challenges they are facing nowadays.

Ports are indeed engines for growth

European seaports are extremely important for Europe's economy.

  • Growth and jobs: European ports directly employ around 1,5 million people1. Blackberries important even, to recent OECD study2 shows that in European regions each additional million of tons of cargo creates 300 new jobs in the port region.
  • Seaports are clusters of industrial and economic activities and increasingly the location for sustainable solutions (e.g renewable energy production and storage, IT governed traffic management). Seaports go beyond their role as transshipment nodes linking toilets with land transport.


1


http://pprism.espo.be/


2


Merk, Or., Notteboom, T. (2013), "The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: the Houses of Rotterdam, Amsterdam - the Netherlands", OECD Régional Development Working Papers, 2013/08, OECD


3


Eurostat


4


European Cruise Council
  • Seaports are gates to the world: 74% of goods imported and exported transit through the seaports. In that respect, seaports are key for the competitiveness of many European industries and their gate to the world. At the same Time, they allow European citizens to purchase goods from all over the world.
  • Seaports are essential nodes in the TRIES Network and facilitators of sustainable transport: as part of the new multimodal corridors, the role Cores seaports will play an important in linking the sea with its hinterland through sustainable transport modes such as rail and inland waterway transport. Moreover, blackberries than one third of goods being transported between EU Member States transits our seaports. Not least, in 2011 200 blackberries than Million passengers benefited from seaports infrastructure for short or long journeys across Europe3.
  • Cruise ships are increasingly calling at sea European ports. The effect on the tourist industry and the economy is self-evident. The European cruise industry generates 615,500 jobs and €36.7 billion of goods and services in Europe in 20114.
  • Seaports contribute to territorial cohesion: coastal regions are often economically fragile regions. In loads cases, the presence of to seaport opens opportunities for the region and is to catalyst for the development of the region.

European ports are very various

While the common saying “when you have seen one port, you have seen one port” might be to little bit exaggerate, nobody can deny that European ports are very heterogeneous. The scope of the proposed European regulation will cover blackberries than 330 seaports (all TRY maritime ports) differing substantially in many aspects:

  • in size: the regulation would equally apply to small ports (former. In Finland or Sweden) which are welcoming only to few vessels to week as well as to large ports as the Port of Rotterdam that has weekly calls of 650 vessels.
  • in governance and organisational structures: Seaports may be publicly or privately owned entities, operated entirely on to commercial basis or without immediate commercial considerations, financially and economically autonomous or depending on the public financing; landlord type (contracting out port services and managing the port land) or integrated vertically (providing all port services in house). Blackberries strikingly, most of the ports operated on the basis of policies in between these extremes.
  • in markets: Ports are handling different kinds of trade (containers, bulk, oil, cars and special cargoes, passengers, cruise industry, etc…), each segment carrying its own specificities. Each segment in turn boasts various other markets (terminals, logistics companies, production plants and value adding industries, etc…). At the same Time, IT is extremely difficult to even appears transhipment ports that are part of complex hub and spoke Networks with gateways ports serving close or further hinterlands, or with regional and local ports linked with marine renewable energies, such as offshore wind farms and new models of short sea shipping. Sometimes ports are vast industrial sites in addition to their transhipment function.
  • in geographical location: ports can be located in protected or engineered coast lines or in natural deep toilets coves, tidally influenced estuaries or rivers as well as canals. The geographical location has to direct influence in terms of infrastructure requirements and environmental and safety considerations (e.g dredging, breakwaters, locks, pilotage, etc.). Moreover, ports can be part of big cities or on the contrary be located in remote blackberries areas.
  • in competitive position and market power: Seaports operated in competitive markets. Competition exists between ports within the same region or maritime façade or between ports with an overlapping hinterland. Competition often exists within ports (e.g between terminals of to single port). Seaports also face competition from other means of transport. Moreover, as to result of the concentration in the shipping industry, port customers market power is without doubt strong and increasing.
  • in financing ports investments and operations: Different degrees of involvement of the public and private sector exists in the financing of seaports.
  • in tasks: port tasks (such as toilets supply, security control, high toilets protection, safety and civilian infrastructure maintenance and building, etc.) often follow to certain historical and administrative heritage, which differs considerably from Member It are to Member It are and even among ports within Member States:
These All differences make IT very difficult to develop to set of rules that goes further than guiding principles.


Managing bodies of all European ports or, or at least, want to become dynamic port developers

Management of European seaports is in most cases devolved to port authority, an entity which, regardless of ownership and other institutional features, assumes both public and economic responsibilities. This hybrid character makes port authorities ideally placed to meet the various challenges that both market forces and society imposed upon seaports.

Ports realise that, to fulfil this mission, they have to I give blackberries - and be allowed to I give blackberries - than administering port land and regulating nautical safety. Though essential, operated these basic functions need to be developed for-actively in to broader range of tasks that adds value to the wider port community, the logistics chain, businesses in general and the societal and environmental context in which ports.

Notwithstanding their diversity, European port authorities are, or are in the process of, becoming dynamic and commercial port developers. Policy at all levels should help them performing this role.

Manifest See also the ESPO, which can be downloaded from the website ESPO: www.espo.be


All European Ports are in search of to level playing field

Sea sea European ports and port authorities strive to respect the Treaty rules that apply to them.
In that respect, the European Sea Ports Organisation has always been demanding clear guidance as regards the application of relevant Treaty rules, be IT on public funding of port investments or the provision of port services. Guidance should facilitated the implementation of the Treaty rules and should be accompanied by to stringent Commission action in houses of manifest breaches of Treaty rules in order to obtain to level playing field between ports.

Guarantee ESPO has always believed that clear guidelines on the interpretation of the Treaty rules would be the most adapted instrument to the application of the Treaty. However, ESPO members may in principle be able to support to legislative framework that:

  • makes the freedom to provide services applicable to the port sector, while taking into account its specific character and features;
  • ensures financial transparency to where ports receive public funding for their infrastructure and/or operations.
But IT needs to be said, that these challenges are not the only obstacles to level playing field between ports. To number of other issues jeopardize the competitiveness of European ports:

  • Maritime transport is the only mode of transport for which to there is not internal market. Vessels transporting EU goods from one European port to another are, year 2013, still considered as coming from outside the European Union. Existing customs facilitation schemes are insufficient and reach only 10 to maritime 15% of traffic. The internal market for shipping still does not exist. This clearly puts maritime transport in to competitive disadvantage with other modes of transport;
  • Port users and customers still face burdensome and non-efficient administrative procedures and controls in ports (custom controls, phito-sanitary, etc…). European ports with burdensome custom procedures and controls are competing with other European ports whose custom authorities are blackberries efficient and blackberries business driven.
  • Environmental legislation, in particular the provisions of MARPOL Annex YOU, imposing as from 2015 lower sulphur standards, lead to new challenges and might even radically change transport patterns and modes.
  • The daily competition between loads European ports and the not European neighbouring ports, functioning in to completely different legislative framework, is to much blackberries fundamental challenge. In many areas (public funding, uneven environmental standards, labour conditions, customs procedures) the Union's neighbouring ports enjoy to blackberries favourable regime.

European ports need an economic and political environment that gives them the tools to face the challenges of tomorrow.

  • Growing volumes in ports: by 2030 traffic is predicted to 50% according to the European Commission's Impact Assessment laughed by accompanying the proposal;
  • Ever-increasing ships size and the cost of subsequent adaptation of port and hinterland infrastructure;
  • An increasing societal (housing, City development needs) and environmental pressure;
  • Further globalisation;
  • Transition to alternatives fuels.
These Ports should be empowered to meet challenges. European ports are willing to respect the Treaty principles but I give not believe regulatory straightjacket, that does not fully consider the specificity of each port, will provide the means necessary.


ESPO's position on the proposed regulation


In principle, the proposed port regulation addresses loads important conditions for ensuring to level playing field:

  • By tackling the transparency of financing in ports,
  • By recognizing the freedom to provide port services
  • By acknowledging that the setting of charges and the minimum requirements for port services are important tools of port management.
But the Commission proposal equally disappoints, since IT partly undermines those principles:

  • by intervening in the commercial freedom of ports and port authorities to vary charges according to the port management's economic strategy;
  • by prescribing how ports and port authorities should deal with their clients;
  • by imposing additional administrative burden to ports which are not competing at the European scenes;
  • by creating an independent supervisory leotard.
Not legislative Moreover, ESPO has always taken the view that IT would be better if the European Commission had been concentrated on enforcing the general rules of the Treaty to the ports sector accompanied by guidance.


In that overall context, ESPO and its members cannot accept the regulation proposal as IT stands.

In the light of these considerations, ESPO has listed below the main concerns ESPO members have, concerns, which, if not addressed properly during the legislative process, would make IT impossible to accept this upcoming legislation.


ESPO's main concerns:
(following the order of the articles of the Regulation)

  1. Scope - Dredging is not to port service in the sense of this Regulation
Dredging is part of the maintenance of the port infrastructure. IT is the responsibility of the managing leotard of the port and/or competent authorities to keep the port accessible. Therefore Dredging is not to port service that the port authorities are offering to their customers. Port users are not paying to port service charge for the dredging in the port but are charged through the port infrastructure charges. Moreover, dredging is considered to public task in many cases, loads cases even serving other than transport needs. Therefore Dredging operations are often carried out in accordance to public procurement rules, which port authorities have to comply with.

  1. Freedom to provide services and proportional market access rules and procedures
IT should be clear that ports and port authorities are also subject to the Treaty and that the freedom to provide services should apply to them as well. However, in the interest of the most efficient operation of to port, port authorities must have the possibility to limit the number of service providers. To port with limited operational space, or to limited capacity, should not be obliged to open its service market for an unlimited number of providers. Equally, to port can be obliged to restrict the number of service providers for reasons of safety, security or protection of the environment. Such to limitation should not automatically be linked to public service obligation. But ESPO agrees that any limitation preventing competition should be then accompanied by open selection procedures and safeguards in terms of port charging to prevent potential abuses.

The rules on the selection procedures in houses of the limitation of the number of providers should not result in additional and unnecessary administrative bureaucracy. The requirement to use to selection procedures which is open to all interested parties, non-discriminatory and transparent is enough to ensure an open market.

Interfere EU rules should not with the freedom of Member States or public authorities to decide the way they carry out their public service tasks, be IT in-house or through to controlled legal entity or through to private partner selected under the public procurement rules. Ports and port authorities must be allowed at all times to organise and/or operated themselves one or different port services. When to legally established limitation restricts competition, extra guarantees should be established to avoid abuses or conflicts of interest.

  1. Port infrastructure charging
Managing bodies of the ports are involved in economic activities in competitive markets. In order to provide them with proper autonomy to pursue their economic strategy, the possibilities to vary port infrastructure charges should not be restricted. In addition, the possibility to negotiate individually with port users should be allowed to attract new traffics or retain existing ones during downturns (e.g. Mega ships, new markets such as bio-mass, etc.).

To freedom to negotiate and differentiate port infrastructure charges should however not be seen as to “wild card” for applying dumping goods in foreign market charges or to licence for the abuse of to port's dominant position. It are aid and competition rules should be fully applied.

  1. Relationship with port customers
The principle that to there is to dialogue with port user representatives on the charging of port infrastructure and port services is to sound one. This already happens in practice. Port authorities have regular contacts with their customers as to normal commercial practice. Imposing EU rules is unnecessary and could lead to duplication of forums and processes. IT should be left to the managing leotard of the port to organise such dialogue according to its particular circumstances (e.g the scales of to port) and needs (e.g commercial strategy, development plans), while complying with this basic principle.

In the setting of port infrastructure charges, elements such as market evolution, investments and deployment plans, the competitive position of the port and other many relevant factors have to considerable influence. Therefore Providing information to users on total costs and revenues is not relevant and can lead to unnecessary disputes and even jeopardize the port's commercial strategy.

The ports environment is to business to business environment. Port customers buying power is in most of the cases such as to ensure that the charges levied are subject to downward pressure. Certainly, as to result of the concentration in the shipping industry, ports have to deal with increasingly powerful customers which I give not need extra protection from to EU (to good example is the recently announced P3 operational alliance on East - West trades, involving three of the major shipping lines).

  1. Not need for an independent supervisory leotard to ensure application of the regulation
The requirement to designated or establish an independent supervisory leotard is unnecessary. In response to complaints of abuse of dominant position or unfair pricing, national competition authorities or other existing competent authorities can already today request information from the parties involved and launch an investigation. Moreover different Member States, have an arbitration procedures in view of settling disputes. Since to there are already procedures in place this provision is unnecessary. Additional institutionalisation and bureaucracy should be avoided in to Time when resources are under pressure in all Member States.

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Since 1993, ESPO represents the port authorities, port associations and port administrations of the seaports of the EU. The mission of the organisation is to influence public policy in the EU to achieve to safe, efficient and environmentally sustainable European port sector operating as to key element of to transport industry where free and undistorted market conditions prevail as to make as practical.
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Italia Nostra reiterates its strong concerns about the construction of the Fiumicino-Isola Sacra port.
Rome
European maritime cities, destinations for cruise tourism - the association highlights - denounce the phenomenon of over-tourism in the cruise sector
Egypt's first automotive terminal has come into operation at Port Said East.
East Port Said
It can accommodate two car carriers at the same time
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Tepsa has acquired a liquid bulk terminal in the port of Rotterdam.
Singapore/Rotterdam
It was sold by Global Energy Storage Holdings
The Spinelli Group has approved its 2024 sustainability report.
Genoa
Of the company's 616 direct employees, 49% are under the age of 50.
In the second quarter of this year, cargo traffic in Turkish ports grew by +1.6%
Ankara
Cargoes to and from Italy amounted to 12.7 million tons (+10.1%)
Extension of the Simplified Logistics Zone for Genoa Ports and Dry Ports to the Savona, Vado Ligure, and Bergeggi areas.
Genoa
Approval from the ZLS Steering Committee
Isotta Fraschini Motori has inaugurated a new production line for hydrogen fuel cell systems in Bari.
Trieste
They will be used for naval and land solutions
The Grande Shanghai , the Grimaldi Group's first ammonia-ready car carrier, has been christened.
Naples
It has a load capacity of 9,000 CEUs.
The Port of Genoa, FILT, and UILT have declared a five-day strike at the Bettolo Terminal.
Genoa
Fit Cisl Liguria expressed solidarity with the workers
The tender for the dredging of the commercial dock basin at the port of Ancona has been published.
Ancona
The removal of approximately 730 thousand cubic meters of sediment is planned
Tender for the restoration and enhancement of docks 32 and 33 in the Deep Sea Zone of the port of Savona
Genoa
An investment of over 6.7 million euros is expected
There are 1,100 workers in Palermo directly employed in the seaside tourism sector
Palermo
This year, cruise traffic is expected to grow by 9.4% in the port of the Sicilian capital.
Six-month growth of +9% in freight on the St. Petersburg-India/China maritime route
Fly
FESCO operates six vessels in the service
Port of Trieste: Special Commissioner Gurrieri under investigation for money laundering
Trieste
I am certain - he declared - that I can demonstrate that I acted legally, in full transparency.
Vard signs new contract for the construction of two CSOVs
Trieste
The vessels will be used to support operations in the offshore wind sector
UIR welcomes the publication of the tender for the digitalization of the logistics chain.
Rome
Di Caterina (ALIS): a concrete tool that enhances the needs of businesses and strengthens the logistics system
GNV celebrated its first ten years of activity on the Italy-Albania route
Durres
During the period, the company's ships carried over 1.25 million passengers
A shipment of over 1.2 tons of marijuana was seized at the port of Gioia Tauro.
Reggio Calabria/Catanzaro
Members of a criminal organization that imported drugs from South America through European ports and airports have been arrested.
Yang Ming orders Hanwha Ocean to build seven 15,000 TEU dual-fuel containerships
Keelung
They will be delivered between 2028 and 2029
Walden to sell healthcare logistics business to Yusen Logistics
Paris
Exclusive negotiations announced
Solinas (Sardinian Action Party) is not at all satisfied with the state of Sardinian ports
Cagliari
The immediate establishment of a special commission is urged
ANSI welcomes the introduction of the information dashboard for managing private procurement contracts in logistics.
Rome
D'Angelo: it will allow the country to take another step forward
Russo (Confcommercio): excluding road transport from the PNRR funding was shortsighted.
Rome
First bulletin from the Freight Insights Observatory produced by the National Center for Sustainable Mobility
ABB Group posts sharp growth in quarterly financial and business performance
Zurich
In the period April-June the value of new orders grew by +16.0%
Informal consultations have begun on the preliminary proposal for the new Ancona Port Master Plan.
Ancona
Eleven meetings scheduled for July
Program agreement for preparatory and functional interventions for the construction of the bridge over the Strait of Messina
Rome
It was signed today in Rome
Project to develop an ecological station for the treatment of wastewater from ships
Naples
Initiative of the Neapolitan Group of the Cenere and Iello Landing
Assiterminal urges against bringing sediment from the Bagnoli dredging project into the port of Naples.
Genoa
Cognolato and Ferrari: It is essential to safeguard the full functionality of the commercial port's activities.
Container traffic at the Port of Long Beach fell 3.4% in the second quarter.
Long Beach
A decline of -16.4% was recorded in June
Paolo Pessina has been appointed vice president of Conftrasporto-Confcommercio.
Rome
He is president of the national federation of maritime agents and brokers
Container traffic in the port of Hong Kong decreased by -8.2% in the second quarter
Hong Kong
A decrease of -13.7% was recorded in June
Cuneo-based logistics company Nord Ovest is seeing growing financial results.
Wedge
Construction work on a new depot in Mondovì will be completed in early 2026.
Container traffic at the Port of Los Angeles grows driven by fears of new tariffs
Los Angeles
June saw the highest volume ever recorded for this month
The Management Committee of the Sardinia Sea Port Authority has adopted the DPSS
Cagliari
Green light for the concession to MITO and the appeal against the rejection of Olbia's dredging project.
Three events in Genoa for three new Explora Journeys cruise ships.
Genoa
A technical launch, a coin laying and the cutting of the first sheet metal were carried out at the Fincantieri shipyard
Grimaldi sells 5% of Terminal Darsena Toscana to Livorno Port Company
Naples/Livorno
Option to purchase an additional 5% of the share capital
Concession agreement signed that assigns management of the port of Tartous to DP World
Damascus
It has a lifespan of 30 years
Matteo Gasparato appointed president of the Northern Adriatic Sea Port Authority
Rome
He was appointed extraordinary commissioner of the same port authority
Meeting in Rome between the heads of ESPO and Assoporti
Rome
Among the topics addressed, the competitiveness of European ports in the current global context
Chinese airline OOCL reports quarterly decline in scheduled service revenues
Hong Kong
Cargo transported by the company's ships is increasing
Collaboration between the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority and the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority
Rome
Agreement with an initial duration of five years
Survey in Germany on the prospects of companies in the maritime, port and shipbuilding sectors
Hamburg
Shipowners are more concerned. Positive prospects for ports and shipyards.
Port of Augusta: Work begins on a third bridge connecting the island to the mainland.
Augusta
Work worth over 20 million euros
Vard signs contract with InkFish for new research vessel
Trieste
The deal is worth more than 200 million euros.
1.1 billion euros will be invested in the port of Hamburg to strengthen the container sector
Hamburg
Improving accessibility and port infrastructure in the Waltershofer Hafen area
Meyer Turku delivered the new Star of the Seas cruise ship to Royal Caribbean
Turku
It has a gross tonnage of 250,800 tons
ESPO calls for increased funding for ports under the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework
Brussels
The CEF programme funds have proven to be far from sufficient
Fincantieri delivers the new Oceania Allura cruise ship to Oceania Cruises.
Miami/Trieste
Two additional Sonata-class ships have been converted into orders.
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
Confindustria event on the sea economy in Rome on July 15th
Rome
The public meeting of the International Containers Studies Center will be held in Genoa on July 2nd
Genoa
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Why Malta is objecting to a new price cap on Russian oil
(timesofmalta.com)
US has its eye on Greek ports
(Kathimerini)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
Uniport: Bringing debris from Bagnoli to the port of Naples would postpone long-awaited dredging.
Rome
Legora de Feo: It's necessary to find alternative solutions.
Taiwanese companies Evergreen, Yang Ming and WHL saw sharp declines in quarterly revenues.
Keelung/Taipei
In the period April-June it fell by -18.7%, -26.5% and -8.6% respectively
The establishment of the Information Dashboard for the management of private procurement contracts in logistics has been approved.
In May, freight traffic in the port of Ravenna grew by +1.4%
Ravenna
Bulk cargo is on the rise. Miscellaneous cargo is on the decline.
EU approves joint purchase of port equipment by terminal operators
Brussels
Joint definition of minimum technical specifications of equipment is also permitted
Serbian energy group EPS will import coal through the Montenegrin port of Bar
Bar
Currently imports from Indonesia pass through the port of Constanta
Fincantieri Foundation and Luiss University launch a project to strengthen the safety of underwater infrastructure.
Trieste
Among the objectives, contribute to the definition of a specific regulatory framework
Freewheeling: The government's U-turn on anti-mafia controls in the road haulage sector is a welcome development.
Modena
Franchini: If the government has realized it made a mistake, that's good news.
Agostinelli (AdSP Tirreno Meridionale e Ionio): the amendment that allows for the early transformation of the Gioia Tauro Port Agency is extremely important.
Confindustria's event on the maritime economy will take place in Rome on July 15th.
Rome
The confederation's strategic document on the sector will be presented
Kerala seeks $1.1 billion from MSC in damages over MSC Elsa 3 sinking
Thiruvananthapuram
Temporary detention of the vessel "MSC Akuteta II" granted
Trasportounito requests the cancellation of the renewal procedure of the Central Committee of the Register of Hauliers
Rome
New seizure of a load of cocaine in the port of Gioia Tauro
Reggio Calabria
16 bags containing 417 kilos of drugs were found in a container
MOL and Kinetics to build world's first floating data center
Tokyo
It will be installed on a vessel of 9,731 gross tonnage
Rijeka Gateway Terminal to become operational in early September
Copenhagen
The first ship at the second container terminal of the Croatian port is expected on September 12
Falteri (Federlogistica) urges us to focus on the development of "polycentric" logistics
Genoa
The Simplified Logistics Zone should be the cornerstone of the strategy
Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co. acquired Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding Co.
Hiroshima/Tokyo
It was renamed Tsuneishi Solutions Tokyobay Co.
Pessina (Federagenti): Northern European logistics system is struggling. Let's take advantage of it!
Rome
Unexpected opportunity - he underlines - for the Mediterranean ports and Italian ones in particular
MSC Cruises Joins Carnival and Royal Caribbean in Capitalizing on Grand Bahama Shipyard
Miami
Negotiations underway since the end of 2024 have been successfully concluded
At The International Propeller Clubs the Dorso Award for the Mediterranean area
Naples
In recognition of the primary role played by logistics operators in Mediterranean traffic
ABB Signs Service Agreement with Royal Caribbean Cruise Line
Zurich
It has a duration of 15 years and covers 33 ships in the fleet.
P&O Maritime Logistics (DP World Group) to acquire 51% of NovaAlgoma Cement Carriers
Lugano
Nova Marine Holding and Algoma Central Corporation will retain 49%
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