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Gianluigi Aponte leaves the rudder of shipowning group MSC the Diego son
the founder of Mediterranean Shipping Company will assume the new role of chairman
October 2, 2014
Gianluigi Aponte, founder of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), has left the rudder of the Helvetic shipowning group the Diego son who is named president and managing director. Diego Aponte has entered in MSC in 1997 and has covered various managerial assignments in the group between which that of vice president of the branch terminalista Terminal Investment Limited (TIL). As a result of the new Gianluigi Aponte nomination, previously MSC president, will assume the new role of chairman and will continue to superview all the activities of the group supporting the son in the planning of the future of MSC.
"It is important - Gianluigi Aponte has declared - that we continue to look ahead and that we prepare the company for the future. The council and I absolutely am convinced that Diego, which supported from its senior management, will achieve new successes for MSC and its customers. We have already a series of projects in course that will contribute to improve our total service offered to the customers, improving our efficiency. This - it has concluded - is a moment moving for MSC".
"MSC - it has emphasized Diego Aponte - has a splendid heritage. In the course of last the 40 years my father has founded and guided MSC that he has begun operating a single ship until to become second the greater marine company in the field of the container of the world. He has created prestigious a total brand. To all MSC passion inspires, dedication and entrepreneurial spirit. The directive team, with the family, will continue to work hard in order to maintain MSC today so extraordinary as it was in 1970".
From the first ship used in 1970, today MSC has reached to operate 500 ships, of which about 200 of property, for a total ability to containerized transport pairs to 2,5 million teu. Moreover the group has in course orders for the construction of others 50 portacontainer for an ulterior ability to 600 thousand teu that it will allow with MSC to reach Danish group A.P. Møller-Mærsk, currently leader of the field of the line transport.
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Gianluigi Aponte, founder of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), has left the rudder of the Helvetic shipowning group the Diego son who is named president and managing director. Diego Aponte has entered in MSC in 1997 and has covered various managerial assignments in the group between which that of vice president of the branch terminalista Terminal Investment Limited (TIL). As a result of the new Gianluigi Aponte nomination, previously MSC president, will assume the new role of chairman and will continue to superview all the activities of the group supporting the son in the planning of the future of MSC.
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