the uncertain future of the multinationals of the shipping to Genoa



According to she, who will be the next one? Maersk, I have answered without hesitation. Exactly, it has been the laconic ascertainment from the other part of the cornet of that usually well she is informed on the events of the genoese portualità (to tell the truth is not always, and the personage does not take offense any in question). The telephone conversation concerned on the transfer announced in these days of a piece of Costa Crociere from the center of Genoa to that of Amburgo and had assumed the confidential tones of who it knows that the chat will remain private.

My interlocutor referred to that which, according to him, it will be the next company of the shipping to transfer activity from the capital of Liguria to other centers. It is not a clairvoyant. I least of all. But to both quickly the Danish shipowning society has come to the mind.

The relationship between the group Maersk and Genoa is for a long time altalenante, with some high and many low. Indeed the better definition of the relation is conflict. They are by now passed years from when the Danish group it has lost the fought battle in order to obtain dedicated terminalistici spaces on the docks of the genoese port and has had to choose close port of call of Savona I go, where but still is forced to face the unknown quantities of the construction of new a great harbour terminal, project type that in Italy must climb over thousand obstacles. Many already are exceeded, since the new platform of Vado Ligure would have to become operating between single two years, in 2017. But other crashs are then succeduti: from it confronts with the institutions and the unions for the threatened ones and partially put into effect happened reductions of the staff after the inauguration of the new center of Maersk Italy to Genoa in 2006 until the centralized judicial fight on the costs of the services that are supported and lost against the shipping agents and the shippers of Genoa that were inculpated by the Authority Antitrust, on information supplied from Maersk Italy, to have agreed restrictive understandings of the competition and that last year definitively they are released by the such accusation from the Council of State.

Savona. And doesn't this suggest nothing to them? , it has chased my interlocutor reading evidently in my thoughts. Already, because the port of Savona, as well as from Danish group A.P. Møller-Mærsk, had been chosen still before from the same Costa Crociere, now of property of the American group Carnival, when the crocieristica company, rejected also it from Genoa, had had to decide where to install an own terminal dedicated to the landing place of the ships of its fleet. From the 2003 almost totality of the ships of Coast that journey in Alto Tirreno they call the Palacrociere of Savona where the company in recent days is authorized to remain at least until 2044, date in which will expire the new thirty-year concession. Genoa, rightly or wrongly, then did not want that Costa Crociere had docks of its port. Drawing of the conclusions, the company movements second own operating and business necessities, opting for the Savona neighbor.

For this and many other obvious reasons a little make to smile the declarations of some representatives of the institutions of Genoa when they support that Costa Crociere nutre little affection for the capital of Liguria. They are passed years from when the genoese property it has yielded the crocieristica company to the group American Carnival Corporation. The supernational large groups, as that American, operate with logical different and often completely averse from the feeling of the affection.

It does not say nothing to them that Carnival has decided to put to the guide of Coast a German manager, has not even not continued imperturbable my interlocutor anticipating what I would have intentional to point out to it reminding to it that in 2012 Michael Thamm is succeeded to Pier Luigi Foschi in the charge of managing director of the company. As if not - I have replied - so it has happened for Vincenzo Onorato, I have timidly limited myself to suggest remembering to it that in the 2013 Italian manager it has left the assignment of general manager of Costa Crociere in order to assume that of managing director of competitor MSC Cruises.

The talk at a distance is continued on the measures that Genoa would have to put into effect in order not to lose marine other asset.

But where want to go do these? On this I have had to agree with mine informed interlocutor, than one has wondered that sense can have that the summits of the genoese and from Liguria institutions go overseas in order to try to make to change a decision by now assumed for a long time.

The signs were already all, have continued the voice to the cornet. It is not intentional, or it has been pretended not to intend them. The signs, for Maersk - it has guaranteed - are the same ones.

I do not have the same certainty on the signs of my interlocutor. But on one thing it seems me has sacrosanct reason: Genoa must wonder because it is progressively losing the marine reputation of capital.

I have abstained from remembering that, as the well informed personage it knows very well, to Genoa is who does not have intentional and she does not want to grant other spaces to the Maersk group, but has also desire that of it does not have to Savona. Given the already funeral tenor of the conversation, I did not have some intention to match he De profundis of the genoese economy.

Bruno Bellio