The two harbour terminalisti spezzini La Spezia Container Terminal and Speter have announced a fusion project



The two harbour terminalisti spezzini La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) of the group Contship Italy and Speter have announced a fusion project that is approved of thursday slid from the boards of directors of the two companies and that it will be put into effect through the fusion for incorporation of Speter, of which from the 2010 Contship group stops 45% of the capital, in the future Spezia Container Terminal.

LSCT is the main terminalista in the segment of the container in the port of where work to the Angelo Ravano Terminal and on the Fornelli Pier. Speter is the main multipurpose terminal present in from Liguria port with operating areas on the Garibaldi pier, Paita Descent, Malaspina and Artom and from 1968 is specialized in operations of forest, mineral cargo and a drainage of producing, zirconium, iron silicon, clay, concrete, steel and producing in iron, coils, lead, copper, sheets of zinc. Speter, that it has 150 dependent, is concessionary of about 1,4 kilometers of docks and 120,000 square metres of large squares in the enclosed port of La Spezia covered warehouses for 15,000 square metres. In the 2013 Speter it has recorded a turnover of 19,6 million euros and has enlivened a traffic pairs 630,000 tons and 127,000 container teu. La Spezia Container Terminal, that it has 475 dependent, has closed 2013 with a turnover of 106 million euros and traffic of the container pairs to beyond a million teu.

Commenting the project of Cecilia Eckelmann Battistello fusion, president of the group Contship Italy, has explained that "there are important synergies that they could be realized in order to reinforce the competitiveness of the port of La Spezia in a moment in which the question for handling services he stretches to always concentrate more in the hands than little shipowning large groups and alliances that act on a global scale. The harbour offer - it has found - must be organized always more in order to offer solutions from the dimensions adapted in a position to competing on an international scale and generating the returns of the waited for investments. We want to thank - it has concluded Battistello - the customers of Speter who give years confirm their aware confidence and support to the company that will be able to always count also on the expertise and the solidity financial institution of the Contship group".