the port of Livorno celebrates the next arrival of the service Medgulf di CMA CGM



Today in the port of Livorno the first landing place of the new Medgulf service of the French company CMA CGM is celebrated next that will connect the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Mexico ( on 7 April 2015) and that will reach for the first time in 28 the Leighorn port next April with the arrival the Terminal Dock Tuscany (TDT) of portacontainer the As Pegasus.

The ceremony of inauguration of the service has held this morning in the Ferretti room of the Old Fortress and the president of the Harbour Authority of Livorno, Giuliano Gallanti, has delivered the crest of the agency to Nicole Chamard, senior manager of the lines ocean-going liners of CMA CGM. "The great companies of navigation interested to the routes between the Mediterranean and America Center-North - it has emphasized Gallanti - strongly believe in the port of Livorno and consider that the port of call can guarantee, also in the near future, efficient and more and more competitive services. The Portuale Town development plan, the project of railway terminalizzazione of the Tuscany Dock and the Europe Platform are the papers that we will play ourselves in order to acquire a more and more strategic role in the Mediterranean".

"The Mediterranean - the general manager of CMA CGM Italy has remembered, Paolo Lo Bianco - is the historical crib of our group. In the 2014 we have totaled 1,900 ports of call in Italy, of which 266 to Livorno, 14% of the total, to demonstration of the strong interest that we nourish for your port. The addition of the Medgulf service is a reaffirmation of our engagement regarding the Leighorn port of call".

As well as by the new Medgulf, the port of Livorno is scaled already by very four regular services of line with the America of the French company: the Mediterranean Caribbean, the Sirius, Amerigo Express and Florida Shuttle.

"The confidence that an important shipowner as CMA CGM lays by in our terminal - has commented the managing director of TDT, Luca Becce - us he is profitable proud, but, above all, entrusts to make to us better. Our objective is to recover the containerized traffics with Far East. The fleets that trade with the Far East, in fact, have dimensions such from not being able to enter in our port. For this reason we must make in a hurry, to make team all for traguardare new results together. TDT will not make to lack own contribution".