Saturday will officially be inaugurated in Italy new East-West Network of the Maersk Line



With the departure of next saturday of portacontainer the Zambia from the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) of the port of Gioia Tauro on service TA6 between Italy (Gioia Tauro, Naples and La Spezia) and the Gulf of Mexico, will officially be inaugurated in Italy East-West Network of the Danish company Maersk Line realized in the within of the agreed agreement of vessel sharing 2M with the Helvetian Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) ( on 10 July 2014).

Maersk has announced that to the departure of the Zambia it will follow, always by Gioia Tauro, the phase in of the ship Sealand Illinois on the service TA5 that will connect five Italian ports (Gioia Tauro, Naples, Livorno and La Spezia) to the east coast of the United States. At the same time, in the course of this and of the next weeks, the ships are entering in spin in Far East that will operate on three services AE11, AE20 and AE12 between Asia and Italy.

The Danish shipowning company has remembered that East-West Network will be operated with medium larger ships regarding the past, affording to the entire logistic chain to make use of a carbon footprint decidedly better thanks to considerably inferior emissions than co2 for unit of goods transported.

The managing director of Maersk Italy it has evidenced that the new Network represents an sensitive improvement of the offer of Maersk Line for the Italian customers: "the eight spins weeklies magazine (four in the precedence structure), that they compose the offer of Maersk Line in our Country - has explained Orazio Stella - confirm our engagement on Italy, context in which during the last few years we are returned to grow more quickly regarding the market in its complex".

The new East West Network of Maersk Line will carry out 14 touched weeklies magazine in the Italian ports, of which two to Genoa, four to, one to Livorno, two to Naples, four to Gioia Tauro and one to Trieste ( on 4 December 2014). Maersk has specified that they will be the two services directed from Italy for the United States, with coverage unknown (five ports in Italy - Gioia Tauro, Naples, Livorno, La Spezia and Genoa, 10 ports in the United States and two in Mexico, for total of 48 corridors weeklies magazine in both the directions). They are in program also three touched weeklies magazine in from Liguria ports (two to and one to Genoa) on two services da/per the Far East with 43 corridors weeklies magazine to which a wider railway Network for the main areas of the North Italy (Lombardy will be connected; Emilia Romagna, Triveneto). Moreover direct corridors will be realized da/per Italy from all the main ports in Far East (China, South Korea, East South Asia) and are in program four touched weeklies magazine to Gioia Tauro on services AE20 (import from Asia) and AE11 (export for Asia), TA5 and TA6 da/per the United States with two new railway connections da/per Nola and Bari, to reinforce the position of Maersk Line in South Italy.