the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company inaugurates to Genoa own Towers MSC



Tonight to Genoa is inaugurated Towers MSC, two new constructions in the Saint area Benigno in which the genoese headquarters of the shipowning group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC are installed). To the ceremony they participate between the other maximum representatives of from Liguria institutions, the summits of group MSC, with to the head the president Gianluigi Aponte and the managing director Diego Aponte, and the leaders of the society of the group.

Towers MSC occupy an area of 15.000 square metres with offices dislocated on 15 plans. The buildings accommodate the Marine Agency the Ships, than work in all Italy in quality of general agent of MSC, and shortly they will receive also other present societies of the group to Genoa: MSC Cruises, MSC Italcatering and Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV). Near the Saint center Benigno they will work beyond 600 people, of which the 217 in force to the Marine Agency Ships and about as many to GNV.

"The choice of a new one headquarter - it has emphasized the managing director of the Marine Agency the Ships, Franco Zuccarino - is an important sign that we have intentional to give to the city and to all the region. The Marine Agency the Ships has been born to Genoa forty years ago and it has not never abandoned the capital of Liguria: today the single genoese center de the Ships employs very 217 dependent, that they go up to beyond 500 with employees of the branches dislocated in all Italy".

Zuccarino has quantified the economic engagement in order to ulteriorly increase the activity of the company: 51 million euros in order to allow and to support the programmed development for the future. Sul forehead of the occupation in fact is previewed an increase of 20% over five years and by the economic-operating point of view progresses still more meaningful are attended.

Last year the activity of group MSC in the single field of the container has generated in the Italian ports a traffic pairs to 1,6 million teu, volume that - it has specified Zuccarino - this year would have to increase of 100 thousand unit. Increment of which they will benefit the ports of call to which they land the portacontenitori of the group, between which the same port of Genoa. "Group MSC - Zuccarino has confirmed - believes in this city and its potentialities; here all we intend to work and to grow. Test of is the 500,000 teu and 671,000 passengers enlivened in 2014 between the port of Genoa and that of La Spezia".

Zuccarino is stopped also on alliance operating 2M that MSC is be tightened recently from, that is according to world-wide marine carrier in the field of the container with a fleet of 500 portacontenitori to which 52 will join some to others under construction, with the Danish Maersk Line, that is leader of the market. Being a cooperation based on the sharing of cargo spaces on the ships of both groups - it has specified - turned out comforting they are recorded own in the rationalization of the ability to the portacontainer to the fleets.

With respect to the cargo ability of the portacontenitori of the world-wide fleet, that by now he has reached to more recently touch the 21,000 teu in the tidy ships, the managing director of the Marine Agency Ships considers that he could himself be by now next at the best maximum of hold ability, not as well as - he has observed - for technical or operating reasons, how much for commercial reasons. Moreover - he has found Zuccarino - it is by now time for the shipowners to cross a phase of stability being conspicuous the grindstones of investments already carried out.