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Al port of Gioia Tauro is landed one of the portacontainer larger to the world
The "MSC London" is able to transport about 17 thousand container
January 30, 2015
This morning the MSC London, one of the portacontainer larger to the world, has reached in the port of Gioia Tauro. With a tonnage of 189 thousand tons, a length of 400 meters and a width of 54 meters, the ship is able to transport about 17 thousand container.
The Harbour Authority of the calabrian port of call has emphasized that the MSC London is the largest portacontenitori never arrived in Italy and approaches at the market national through the port of Gioia Tauro, only the hub of trashipment Italian able receiving a ship of such capacity in full load. In fact only after to have unloaded beyond 4.000 containers in the large square, the Large Hooligan Vessel Container of the fleet of Mediterranean Shipping Company will be able to head, being lightened, towards other national destinations.
The extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority, Giovanni Grimaldi, has defined the arrival in port of the Msc London "an important attestation of merit towards our port of call and an acknowledgment of our activity. To boast high qualitative levels so - it has found - means to be one of the ports more important than field to international level in a position to obtaining the confidence of world-wide the marine lines. Anyway, our port, in various occasions, has already wide demonstrated to be a match for to give positive answers to the challenges launch from the market, addressed to use mega ships always greater dimensions".
"Our port - Domenico Bagalà has confirmed, managing director of the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), the society of the group Contship Italy that manages the terminal for containers of the calabrian port - is ready to not only receive the giants of the sea from the infrastructural point of view but also from the point of view of the equipment and means of working, able to operate on ships with 23 rows of containers. The peculiarities of Gioia Tauro do not consist alone in the ready being to receive this type of portacontainer fully loaded, but also of being able to receive them in flexible way. Today we are able to work until three ships in simultaneous way that will become five as soon as the works in progress in the part north of the dock will be completed".
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This morning the MSC London, one of the portacontainer larger to the world, has reached in the port of Gioia Tauro. With a tonnage of 189 thousand tons, a length of 400 meters and a width of 54 meters, the ship is able to transport about 17 thousand container.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
