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the Council of State establishes that Large the Navi Veloci, Moby, Marinvest and SNAV have not agreed some understanding on the prices
Confirmed the decision of the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT of Lazio
September 7, 2015

The Council of State, with deposited sentence friday that we publish below, has confirmed the decision of the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT of the Latium that in May 2014 had received the resources introduced from the Great companies of navigation Navi Veloci (GNV), Moby, Marinvest and SNAV against the decision with which the Guarantor Authority for competition and Market (AGCM) it had endorsed for a presumed understanding on the prices of practiced tickets the customers ( on June 14, 2013 and 8 May 2014).

The president and managing director of GNV, Roberto Martinoli, have emphasized that such result is "extremely satisfactory" - "the sentence of the Council of State - has observed - definitively closes an event that has seen us unjustly accused to have adopted illicit behaviors; our company - it has emphasized Martinoli - has always churns and continues to act according to criteria of absolute transparency and with maximum independence in the determination of own business policy and tariff". GNV has restated to have "always defined its business strategies in absolute autonomy" and of being "been able to renew themselves and to strengthen own activity in spite of negative the economic conjuncture, consolidating of the national lines and increasing own presence on the international markets".





N. 04123/2015REG.PROV.COLL.
N. 07946/2014 REG.RIC.
N. 07948/2014 REG.RIC.


ITALIAN REPUBLIC
IN THE NAME OF ITALIAN PEOPLE
The Council of State
in jurisdictional center (Section Sixth)

it has pronounced anticipates

SENTENCE

on the resource number of general registry 7946 of 2014, proposed they give:
Guarantor authority of the Competition and Market - AGCM, in person of the President in charge, represented and defended from the general Legal profession of the State, domiciliataria for law, in Rome, via of the Portugueses, 12;

against

Large the Navi Veloci s.p.a., in person of the legal representative pro tempore, represented and defended from lawyers Stefano Grassani and Fabio Cintioli, with address which elected near the study of this last one, in Rome, via Vittoria Colonna 32;
Marinvest s.r.l and SNAV s.p.a., in person of the respective lawyers representatives pro tempore, represented and defenses from lawyers Fabio Cintioli, Donato Bruno and Salvatore Ravenna, with address which elected near the study of first, in Rome, via Vittoria Colonna 32;

regarding

Altroconsumo - independent Association of consumers, in person of the legal representative pro tempore, represented and defended from lawyers Paolo Martinello, Giorgio Afferni, Andrea Mozzati and Francesco Paoletti, with address which elected near the study of this last one, in Rome, tree-lined avenue Marshal Pilsudski, 118;
Forship s.p.a., constituted in judgment in does not anticipate degree;

on the resource number of general registry 7948 of 2014, proposed they give:
Guarantor authority of the Competition and Market - AGCM, in person of the President in charge, represented and defended from the general Legal profession of the State, domiciliataria for law, in Rome, via of the Portugueses, 12;

against

Moby s.p.a., in person of the legal representative pro tempore, represented and defended from lawyers Beniamino Caravita Di Toritto, Beniamino Carnevale and Claudio Tesauro, with address which elected near the study of first, in Rome, via of Pinciana Door, 6;

regarding

Altroconsumo - independent Association of consumers, in person of the legal representative pro tempore, represented and defended from lawyers Francesco Paoletti, Paolo Martinello, Giorgio Afferni and Andrea Mozzati, with address which elected near the study of first, in Rome, tree-lined avenue Marshal Pilsudski, 118;
Forship s.p.a., independent Region of the Sardinia, Codacons - Coordination of the associations for the defense of the atmosphere and the users and the consumers, constituted in judgment in does not anticipate degree;

for the reform

as for the resource n. 7946 of 2014:
of the sentence of the T.a.r. Latium - Rome, Section I, n. 04730/2014, been profitable between the parts and concerning: irrogazione agreed practical pecuniary endorsement for anti-competitive;
as for the resource n. 7948 of 2014:
of the sentence of the T.a.r. Latium - Rome, Section I, n. 04731/2014, been profitable between the parts and concerning: irrogazione agreed practical pecuniary endorsement for anti-competitive;

Seen the resources in appeal and relative the attached ones;
Seen the certificates of incorporation in judgment of the respective named parts;
Seen the defensive memories;
Visas all the actions of the cause;
Reporter, in the public audience of the day 14 April 2015, the Cons. Bernhard Lageder and hearings, for the parts, the Kind lawyer of the State and lawyers Grassani, Cintioli, Paoletti and Afferni;
Considered and considered in fact and right how much follows.

FACT and RIGHT

1. With the two sentences in epigraph, the T.a.r for the Latium received the resources n. 6319 of 2013, n. 7943 of 2013, n. 9209 of 2013 and n. 9210 of 2013, proposed respective by Moby s.p.a., the Large ones the Navi Veloci s.p.a. (GNV), adverse Marinvest s.p.a and SNAV s.p.a the provision n. 24405 of the 11 june 2013, with which the guarantor Authority of the competition and the market - AGCM had inflicted to the recurrent pecuniary endorsements of euro 5.462.310, 00 (Moby), of euro 2.370.795, 00 (GNV), of euro 231,765, 00 (SNAV) and of euro 42,575, 00 (Marinvest), former articles. 15 and 31 l. 10 October 1990, n. 287.

The AGCM, to the outcome of the procedimentale preliminary investigation, had considered assessed that the recurrent enterprises, in the period september 2010 - september the 2011 (SNAV, until May 2011, when the same one had stopped to operate on the Civitavecchia-Olbia route), had placed in being an understanding in the agreed form of a practical one, consisting in the parallel generalized and meaningful increase of the prices of the services of transposed marine passengers, with or without vehicles rubberized to the continuation, on a series of routes from and for the Sardinia (mainly, on the routes Civitavecchia-Olbia, Genoa-Olbia and Torres Genoa-Port), with reference to the summery season 2011, characterized as illicit anti-competitive, as not justifiable one with economic explanations alternatives if with the concertazione between the recurrent enterprises, let alone lesiva of art. the 101 TFUE, since suitable not to shrink the commerce between the Member States, constituting the marine connections for the Sardinia an important part of the marine transport in Italy.

Adìto the T.a.r has founded the pronunce of acceptation on the following motivazionali reliefs (identical in the two sentences):

- it found that, which only incontestable data, could be assumed that in the 2011 rates of the ferries for the Sardinia they had grown in much sensitive measure, for the maximum part of the operators: in the sense that the user, let alone the contiguous subjects to it, as the associations of consumers and the Sardinia Region, had generally perceived the exceeding increase as the increment anniversary reasonably attended in that time for similar performances;

- however, to light of the adopted methodological criterion from the AGCM, it would be impossible to know in detail the exact entity of such increases - for companies, drafts, periods of the year and types of travel -, being the AGCM rerun to the parameter of the unitary medium revenue for passenger (dividend the totality of the revenues for the number of the passengers), constituted a mere statistical indicator of the real prices applied in relation to the variegated type of the offered services (single ticket, ticket family, solo fleeting transport, fleeting transport + automobile, solo passage without cabin, passage with cabin, etc), strongly diversified within a same company;

- to the aim to assess the existence of a pre-emptive coordination between the economic operators, that they supplied the transport services in question, it was necessary, in fact, to ascertain and to know the real tariff increases, with the correspondences, also temporal, that is the divergences, to the aim to confirm or less the deduction concertazione, while the Authority, in the appealled provision, had not succeeded to fix concrete dynamics of the increase of the single prices, for which reassuring elements lacked “in order to assert that all the operators have increased the rates homogeneously, with uniform addresses and synchronisms you suspect” (v. so, exactly, the appealled sentences);

- it had, moreover, to be considered well-known that the computerized management of the reservations allowed at the beginning not to crystallize the rates of the year in lists of which predetermined duration, limiting itself to define large sections of prices (to whose inside the amounts then oscillated cospicuamente), and to adapt itself flexible to the characteristics of the market in general terms, as well as to the question for determining covered and single travel;

- on the other hand, the prices were () pacifically conoscibili from all and it could reasonably be presumed that every company monitored those of the others constantly, that, in itself, it did not introduce illiceità profiles;

- he was, then, reasonable to consider that one of the societies of navigation interested (all in loss in the interest period) had decided, in full autonomy and, therefore, without advance concertazione, to start a first series of increases, and to these they were followed, in pairs autonomy, those of the other companies that had learned of first and, to this point, had considered more convenient not to continue to practice not gainful prices of the costs of the service;

- therefore, contrarily to the task of the Authority, the simple increase of the prices was not suitable to demonstrate, in itself, the existence of a pre-emptive understanding, in the sense that “this is not that is the only possible unknown antecedent of the famous fact, constituted by the tariff increment, which therefore enough not to demonstrate the concertazione, that it would have therefore to be characterized here through specific indications, serious, you specify and concordant, which demonstrate that those given to behavior parallel on the market cannot explain” (v otherwise. so, exactly, the appealled sentences);

- in fact, the recurrent enterprises - aloof profiles relative specific absolvers to the single positions (which, as for the position of Marinvest, the absence of any operating activity, in quality of holding of the group, and, as for the position of SNAV, the escape, at the beginning of 2011, from the routes from and for the Sardinia) -, in order to justify the increment of the prices, had indicated, in particular, the losses of management (in the 2010 GNV quickly had losses for 37,9 million euros) and the sensitive increase of the cost for the fuel, against a decrease of the question of marine transport towards Sardinia;

- the indicated exculpatory elements from the recurrent ones (which, moreover, it did not weigh on the relative burden of allegation and test) had to be considered consisting, so to be profitable likely, according to reasonableness, the individual decision to increase the rates, also without pre-emptive agreements, whose existence was not proven, difettando, in particular, the test that the increases were disproportionate to the measure of the losses, while the affirmation of the Authority, second which the increase of the prices, if not agreed before, never would have been would be decided by the single operator, as could only have determined ulterior losses, constituted an arguable argument decidedly;

- mainly, such argument did not consider, first of all, than every concurrent aware era of the analogous difficulties of the other companies and could reasonably count that it would be followed, that it has remained confirmed, second recognized how much from the same Authority, for Forship, which is not endorsed also having increased the prices, as the same one it would have carried out a role of follower of the policies of price of the competitors, neither the recalled argument of the Authority considered that all the navigation societies put into effect a constant monitoring of the prices of the other companies, so that nothing would have prevented to reconsider the arranged increases, if the competitors had not adopted the same politics;

- to this the circumstance joined that, own in the course of 2011, would have had to be definitively privatized the Tirrenia society, which for very many years had exercised the marine transport, also with the Sardinia, to contained prices, not by now reasonably more practicable, sicché a fundamental factor of calmieramento of the prices had failed, with the consequence that, for a back, as asserted from the Region Sardinia, “the collusivo risk, species with regards to the price fixing is increased in exponential way”, but for other back and under other visual angle, the virtual one disappeared of a competitor, that it had until then tax a calmieramento of the field, reaching then, in short, to the failure, could have induced each of the interested companies to increase the rates independently;

- neither the Authority had succeeded to try exogenous elements of agreements elapsed between the parts with regard to relative the tariff increase to the summery season of 2011, lacking any correlative direct reply or presumptive it is with regard to the content of the relations elapsed between the recurrent ones and the other societies, that they would have constituted the common enterprise Italian Company of Navigation (C.I.N.) for the acquisition of Tirrenia, is with regard to the content of the agreements of elapsed tails sharing, in the spring of 2011, between Moby and GNV, than they did not have intrinsically illicit valence, constituting instead a precise burden of the Authority to verify case by chance, if such legal outlines could, or less, to assume collusiva valence;

- AGCM not had acquitted to relative burden probative, not being be offered elements, which confirmed existence of practical agreed, as the mentioned agreements, to in itself lawful specific content, did not presuppose practical a tariff one shared between the societies that had concluded them, to prescind from the relief that the same ones regarded alone two of the subjects then endorsed.

The T.a.r received, conclusive, the resource for deficiency of test of the anti-competitive agreed practical allegated one, cancelling the appealled sanzionatorio provision and declaring absorbed the remaining reasons.

2. Adverse both the sentences interposed appeal the Authority, deducing the following reasons (from each other identical in the two actions of impugnation):

a) an erroneous exclusion of the attainment of the test in order to the existence of a parallelism of the tariff policies adopted between the parts of the understanding for the routes Civitavecchia-Olbia/Golfo Aranci, Genoa-Olbia and Torres Genoa-Port, let alone the circolarità of the reasoning of the sentence, having the T.a.r considered erroneously that it was impossible to determine the entity of the increases, while, in the species, the increases were tried punctually, neither to the aims of integration of illicit the competitive necessary era the identity of the increments of price between all the operators: in fact, for a back, e-mails and reports found again it is near Moby is near GNV/SNAV would prove that the competitive enterprises had practiced political of price until summery season 2011, and that from that moment their strategies only had quickly an abrupt rise in controtendenza regarding the year precedence (of beyond 70% on the Civitavecchia-Olbia routes and Torres Genoa-Port, and of beyond 40% on the Genoa-Olbia route), to the point of fearing a reduction of the number of the passengers (Moby) or to suggest the nascondimento of the relative data to increase (GNV/SNAV) (doc. 18 and 29), and, for other back, the Authority had applied to a indicator (unitary medium revenue) suitable to verify the medium course of the offers and therefore the tariff strategies in practice practiced by the operators (in the species, connoted from a homogenous increase on the specified routes over), also in the presence of a market characterized from a marked differentiation of the prices daily practiced, being own the waited for revenue the variable one on which the competition strategies were played;

b) the erroneous application of the criteria that preside to the probative and consequent regime the erroneous exclusion of the test of the concertazione, deducing, with regard to, the following profiles of errores in iudicando:
- “lacked understanding by the Regional Administrative Court the iter logical-probative”, having the appellant Authority, in the appealled provision, acquitted independently and scrupulously to the burden to demonstrate that the found ones lead parallels were not riconducibili to explanations able alternatives to characterize the same conducts as rational and independent entrepreneurial choices, and having the same one, in particular, demonstrated that the lead mentioned ones could not be justified neither from the insufficient elasticity of the question, neither from the transparency of the market, neither from the increment of the cost of the fuel, neither, at last, from the losses endured from the operators, so supplying the logical-economic test of the illicit one, in adhesion to the criteria elaborated from consolidated jurisprudential, national and communitarian guideline, and at all placing the onus of proof of the endogenous indicators of the practical one agreed at the expense of the enterprises;
- the intrinsic contraddittorietà of the motivations of the named sentences, whereby, for a back, asserted that the separated possibility of the riconduzione of the increases of agreed price to a practical one could not be considered sufficient, under the probative profile, to confirm the accusatory hypothesis, and, for other back, they assumed that separated plausibility of the explanations supplied from the enterprises would have been sufficient to assert of the liceità;
- the perplexity of the affirmation, contained in the appealled sentences, second which the “College does not want so to assert that sure for the rates not a practical one was agreed (…) but only that the appealled provision and the actions instructors of it does not attest the existence”, indicative of the analysis absence and istruttorio deepening and consequent uncertainty of the conclusions of the T.a.r.;
- the omitted one adapted to valorization of the data acquired instructors from the Authority - suitable to demonstrate to the absence of explanations alternatives of the conducts parallels, not otherwise explicable that with the advance concertazione between the concurrent enterprises - through the deepened analysis of the endogenous elements of the elasticity of the question, the transparency of the market, the increase of the fuel cost and the connoting losses of exercise the situation economic-financial institution of the recurrent original enterprises;
- the omitted one adapted to valorization of the data acquired instructors from the Authority with regard to the subsistence of contacts characterized between the enterprises, being able itself some inferring that these last ones had connected own tariff policies (in particular valuing documents 18, 24, 30, 21, 31 and 39), to ulterior exogenous indiziaria confirmation of the reconstruction of the anti-competitive fattispecie, already in itself demonstrated from the enunciated endogenous elements proving the necessary riconducibilità of the conducts parallels to a concertazione between the parts.
The appellant Administration asked therefore, in reform of the named sentences, the reiezione of the rerun adversaries first degree.

3. In both judgments of appeal the recurrent original respective societies were formed in judgment, contesting the fondatezza of the appeals and asking of the reiezione, let alone reproposing the absorbed reasons express first degree.
One was formed, also, in judgment, the association of the Altroconsumo consumers, joining to the appeals proposed from the Authority and asking of the acceptation.

4. To the public audience on April 14, 2015 the cause is withheld in decision.

5. Although the two resources in appeal are proposed adverse two distinguished sentences, ravvisa opportune to get ready of the reunion according to a discourse and combined decision, for reasons of objective and partially subjective connection.
In the merit, the appeal reasons, from each other connected and to examine jointly, are groundless.

5.1. Original recurrent and the today's ones named (Moby, GNV, SNAV and Marinvest), in the appealled inhibiting and sanzionatorio provision, are considered guilty of the violation of art. the 101 TFUE in order to have place in being a suitable understanding to alter competitive dynamics in the market of the services of transposed marine passengers, with or without vehicles rubberized to the continuation, on the routes Civitavecchia-Olbia, Genoa-Olbia and Torres Genoa-Port, consisting in the practical one agreed of the parallel generalized increase and meaningful of the prices for summery season 2011, than, second the task of the Authority, would not find justifications alternatives to that of the concertazione.

5.2. Observe yourself, online by right, than, for how much it interests here, art. the 101 TFUE, prohibits “(…) all the agreements between enterprises, all the decisions of associations of enterprises and all the practical ones agreed that they can prejudice the commerce between Member States and that they have for object or effect to inside prevent, to shrink or to forge the game of the competition of the home market and in particular those consisting in:
a) to indirectly fix directly or the sale or purchase prices that is other conditions of transaction; (…)”.
While the fattispecie of the agreement resorts, in case the enterprises have expressed the their common will to behave on the market in a determined way, the practical one agreed corresponds to a form of coordination between enterprises that, without being pushed until the performance of a real agreement, replaces, in aware way, an expressed collaboration between was about to them to stave off to the risks of the competition.
The criteria of the coordination and the collaboration, that they allow to define such notion, go to light intended of the principles in competition matter, second which every economic operator must independently determine the conduct that he intends to follow on the market. Also not excluding the aforesaid requirement of autonomy the right of the economic operators to react cleverly to the famous or presumed behavior of the competitors, it prohibits rigorously but that between the operators direct or indirect contacts take place having for object or effect to create competition conditions not correspondents to the normal conditions of the market.
The restrictive understanding of the agreed competition by means of practical demands behaviors more enterprises, uniforms and parallels, that they constitute I yield of concertazione and not of unilateral initiatives, sicché in the practical one agreed lack, or however he is not traceable by the investigator, an expressed agreement, that he is easily comprehensible, where considers that the operators of the market, where they intend to place in being an anti-competitive practice, and being aware of its illiceità, will try with every means to hide it, avoiding written agreements or comes to an agreement oral expressed and resorting, instead, to mutual signs you turn to reach to a concertazione to all purposes and effects.
The jurisprudence, aware of the rarity of the acquisition of a full test, considers that the agreed practical test of, as well as the documentary one, can also be indiziaria, provided that the indications are serious, specify and concordant.
In the practical one agreed the existence of the subjective element of the concertazione it must therefore be deduced in indiziaria way from objective elements, which:
- the duration, the uniformity and parallelism of the behaviors;
- the existence of encounters between the enterprises;
- the engagements, generic and though apparently not univocal, of common strategies and policies;
- the informative signs and the mutual ones;
- the practical success of the behaviors, than could not derive from initiatives unilateral, but from conducts only concerted.
The communitarian and national jurisprudence distinguishes between natural parallelism and parallelism skillfully induced from anti-competitive understandings, of which the first fattispecie to demonstrate on the base of endogenous evidences, that is connected to the intrinsic strangeness of the conducts assessed and to the lack of explanations alternatives, in the sense that, a logic of I confront competitive, the behavior of the enterprises would have been sure or at least reasonably various from that found, and the second one on the base of exogenous evidences, that is of external replies about the participation of an illicit understanding to beyond the physiological strangeness of the conduct as such.
The difference between the two fattispecie and correlative types of probative elements - endogenous and, respective exogenous - is reflected on the subject, on which it falls back the onus of proof: in the first case, the test of the irrationality of the conducts weighs on the Authority, while, in according to case, the contrary probative burden is moved in head to the enterprise.
In particular, in case, against the simple ascertainment of a parallelism of behaviors on the market, the reasoning of the Authority is founded on the supposition that the conducts placed made up of the accusatory hypothesis dispute object cannot be explained otherwise if not with a concertazione between the enterprises, to these last ones enough to demonstrate reasonable circumstances that they place under a various light the facts assessed from the Authority and that they allow, so, of giving a various explanation of the facts regarding that received in the appealled provision.
In case, instead, the test of the concertazione it is not based on the simple ascertainment of a parallelism of behaviors, but from the preliminary investigation it emerges that the practical ones can be are yield of a concertazione and of an exchange of information in practice between the enterprises, in relation to which there are reasonable indications of practical agreed an anti-competitive one, it weighs on the enterprises the burden to supply a various lawful explanation of their conducts and their contacts (on the reconstruction of the agreed practical fattispecie of the anti-competitive ones, under the substantial and probative profile, v., for all, Cons. St., Sez. YOU, 13 May 2011, n. 2925, with wide jurisprudential callbacks, communitarian and national).

5.3. If of species, the appealled provision - moreover, informed to a methodological approach that appears from beginning to end vitiated from the adoption, as parameter of appraisal of the conducts of tariff increment, of the unitary medium revenue, obtained, dividend the revenues totals for the number of the transported passengers (that is, of a mere statistical data proceeds ex post from the launches real prices applied from a same company), rather than of the corrected criterion, supporter with the debited anti-competitive fattispecie to the today's ones named, of a concrete and punctual analysis of the real prices applied from the single companies to compare, for drafts, single moments of the season and types of travel and offered services - I found on the reply of allegated a meaningful parallel increase of the prices (according to the mentioned parameter of the unitary medium revenue), in the measures of beyond 65%, by the detentrici enterprises of navigation of important market shares, operating on the routes Civitavecchia-Olbia, Genoa-Olbia and Torres Genoa-Port, for the summery season 2011 (june - september 2011); parallel rise of prices that, second the prospettazione of the Authority, “turns out to be I yield of an understanding, in the agreed form of a practical one, than it does not find justifications alternatives if not concertazione” (v. so, exactly point 159 of the appealled provision) and is time to alter competitive dynamics in the markets of the fleeting services of transport on the routes in question and, in particular, to increase the relative prices in the mentioned summery season in prejudice of the consumers.

5.4. For how much it concerns the qualified contacts elapsed between the Moby enterprises, GNV and SNAV in the within of the procedure of privatization of Tirrenia (with under way contest in September 2010), to which the mentioned enterprises they had participated (of which last the two through the controlling Marinvest) through the constitution of common society CIN, let alone those elapsed between enterprises Moby and GNV, between which an agreement of tails sharing on the Civitavecchia-Olbia route and a commercial agreement on the route is taken part Torres Genoa-Port, is observed that, for a back, contained draft of relationships and agreements to and specific and delimited objects, of for lawful himself, while, for other back, indiziari elements are not emerged precise, serious and concordant around the eventual one concertazione of the relative tariff business strategy to summery season 2011 or eventual a correlative sensitive exchange of information realizes, being the which invoked documents in case of necessity from the completely equivocal Authority and compatible with the specific object of the lawful contacts elapsed between the enterprises, to prescind of the relief that the test lacks the chronological coincidence with the phase of fixation of the prices for summery season 2011 (so, eg., the commercial agreements between Moby and GNV are taken part in a moment in which the relative rates to the 2011 already were defined by the single companies).
Moreover, it is the same Authority to specify, in the appealled provision, than “Not draft of having encounters in itself restrictive valence, but of suitable occasions of contact to constitute ulterior elements to agreed support of the practical one”, than “the single contacts they only represent only an indication of the fact that, in the within of common enterprise CIN, Moby and GNV/SNAV has discussed about tariff policies for the next seasons, comprised that there 2011”, and that “such agreements are not estimated as restrictive of the competition in itself in the within of anticipate procedure, but as occasion of contact between Parts” (v. points 155, 156 and 158 of the provision), without, however, being able to supply univocal indiziari elements about the finalizzazione of the contacts in question to the sensitive exchange of information or the concertazione of the prices for summery season 2011, that is to purpose strangers to the procedure of privatization of Tirrenia or, respective to the mentioned commercial agreements.

5.5. Place therefore that the sanzionatorio provision is based, in the final analysis on the simple ascertainment of a parallelism of behaviors - moreover, connoted from a not homogenous increase of the prices by the several enterprises -, considers the College that, in this case, the explanation of parallelism of behaviors based on the concertazione is not only the reasonable one, and that the Authority has not been able to exceed the explanations advanced alternatives with regard to from the recurrent original enterprises - whose effects are, moreover, to estimate not in atomistico way, but in unitary and contextual way -, rested on an economic analysis that carries to the conclusion that i found tariff increases they are riconducibili to independent and independent choices of the operating enterprises of navigation on the routes in question.

5.5.1. In the first instance, the ouster of the Forship from the number of the endorsed operators is index of the intrinsic contraddittorietà of the appealled sanzionatorio provision, be a matter itself of active enterprise on the Livorno-Olbia route with a market share around 50%, on one of the more important markets and gainful between that object of assessment, which had practiced tariff politics to the rise in all assimilable to the put tariff decisions in existence from the operators endorsed, in even greater measure, moreover announcing in order before the increase of the prices on own website (in 11 date October 2010, keeps on little days of distance by Moby).
The Authority has not been able to demonstrate in convincing way the exclusion of the company in question from the perimeter of the endorsed operators, characterizing it, in apodittica way, as follower (id est, enterprise substantially weak person in the competences of innovation and produced planning of or the offered, tending service, in order to tackle to such weakness, to adapt and to imitate produced or the services offered from the smaller enterprises leader), or as operator on the routes in question; circumstances, that they turn out instead refutation from the tempistiche of the rises operated and from the important market shares stopped from the Forship on all the routes involved in the procedimentale preliminary investigation, while insignificant, and however not sufficiently tried is the circumstance that would be be a matter of company with “typically international” customers.
Therefore, as correctly considered from the T.a.r., the acquittal of the Forship constitutes, in itself, the test of the existence of explanations alternatives to the concertazione, demonstrating that the contested increases of the prices, lungi from being able to be led back to the only possible explanation of a collusivo parallelism, are reasonably riconducibili to independent and rational independent and unilateral choices of the several operators.
Substantially analogous considerations prevail with regard to the lacked inclusion Tirrenia between the subject addressees of the sanzionatorio procedure, although also such operator, although the subsidies publics of which it enjoyed, have considered necessary to increase the rates in summery season 2011 (even if in inferior measure to that of the today's ones named; v. the signallings having to object the tariff increases of Tirrenia, turning out from the procedimentale istruttorio issue).

5.5.2. In the second place, it can be considered that the increase of the prices operated from the several companies on the routes in question constituted a rational answer to the sensitive increases of the fuel in period 2009-2011. In fact, in the mentioned period, the values of reference of the main used types of fuel in the marine transport (called bunker) quickly have an increase of the 26-29% from 2009 to 2010 and of the 38-39% from 2010 to 2011 (v. table 22 to p. 28 of the appealled provision).
Although the fuel in general terms constitutes only one of the cost factors of the navigation enterprises, affecting less of 50% (mainly, in the measure of the 40-45%) on the total of the costs, and also involving, therefore, also an eventual entire translation the prices an increment tendentially inferior percentage to the increase of the cost of such productive factor, in period 2009-2011 is, however, assisted to an increase of about 70% of the cost of the bunker, than, already in itself, it would have justified a consisting increase of the final price.
If the increases of other voices of cost join (which, eg., for GNV: the voice budgetary ‘enjoyment of assets of third party’, increased from euro 20 million to euro 38 million; the relative voice to the costs of the services, increased from euro 106 million to euro 141 million; or the applied harbour burdens from the Sardinia Region, more than doubled), or the combination with other circumstances of sign negative (which, eg., for Moby, the reduction of the revenues for 16,5 million in period 2007-2010; or, well-known the serious general economic crisis), the percentage of increase of the rates applied in summery season 2011 finds its independent, reasonable explanation in with of a series of economic factors negatives incidents on the operating enterprises in the field of marine navigation.

5.5.3. In third place, the substantial chronological coincidence of the increase of the prices operated from the companies in question for summery season 2011 can be considered a direct consequence of the great transparency of the market of the field under investigation - connoted from the circumstance, immanent to the nature of the offered services, that the prices applied from the several operators are, pacifically, conoscibili from anyone in real times, allowing of a constant monitoring -, and it cannot therefore be considered artificial. In fact, every producer is at liberty to modify as it wants own prices and it can hold account, to such fine, of the behavior of its competitors, provided with high degree of prevedibilità in a market connoted from an elevated degree of transparency.
It is necessary, on the point, to add that parallelism of the prices and their course find, if of species, a satisfactory explanation also in the oligopolistiche tendencies of the market, emerged in way precipuo as a result of the privatization of Tirrenia, strongly subsidized from the public sector, than before acted as factor of calmieramento of the prices.
In truth, in a market oligopolistico and, at the same time, transparent, which that under investigation, no enterprise will proceed to competition actions without to have preventively studied the probable reactions of its competitors, and in a such structure of market, when an operator carries out a general increase of the prices, the other operators stretch naturaliter to put into effect analogous tariff policies in rise, species in a situation connoted from a generalized lievitazione of the several factors of cost and from a decrease of profit.
It considers, with regard to, the College that the creation of a founded situation of oligopolistico balance on progressive adjustments of the behaviors of the operators of the market, in concomitanza with a series of factors that return the decisions unilateral of each riconducibili enterprise to economic imperatives of objective character, is not, in itself, qualificabile sub species of practice agreed prohibited according to art. the 101 TFUE, to pain to ex post resolve the sanzionatoria fattispecie in a noticeable situation through the assessment of the objective effects produced from the lawful independent conducts of the operators of the market, which cleared from any element of guilt, only determining the presence also of this last member the full illiceità of an anti-competitive conduct according to the communitarian and national discipline, that it can give rise to the application of pecuniary endorsements.

5.5.4. To light of the above-referenced results of the economic analysis, it must be stated that, in this case, the explanation of parallelism of behaviors based on the concertazione is not only the reasonable one, with the consequent inconfigurabilità of the contested anti-competitive fattispecie to the today's ones named with the appealled provision, not even under the profile of a reconstructive approach of endogenous type.

5.6. For the exposed reasons, the appeals are from rejecting, with consequent confirmation of the appealled sentences and absorption of every other issue, by now insignificant to the decisive aims.

6. Taken into consideration every connoting circumstance controversy, ravvisano anticipates the law foundations in order to declare the expenses of anticipates judgment degree entirely compensated between all the parts.

P.Q.M.

The Council of State in jurisdictional center (Section Sixth), definitively pronouncing on the appeals, as in epigraph proposed and from each other reunited (resorted n. 7946 of 2014 and n. 7948 of 2014), reject them and, for the effect, named confirmation the sentence; it declares the expenses of anticipates judgment degree entirely compensated between all the parts.
It orders that sentence anticipates is executed by the administrative authority.
So decided in Rome, the Council Chamber of the day 14 April 2015, with the participation of the magistrates:
Stefano Baccarini, President
Sergio De Felice, Councilman
Giulio Castriota Scanderbeg, Councilman
Roberta Vigotti, Councilman
Bernhard Lageder, Councilman, Drafter



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THE PRESIDENT
DEPOSITED IN SECRETARIAT
The 04/09/2015
THE SECRETARY
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FROM THE HOME PAGE
Royal Caribbean closes second quarter with record net profit
Miami
The April-June period was very positive
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern announced a merger agreement today.
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern announced a merger agreement today.
Omaha/Atlanta
First coast-to-coast cargo rail network
Gurrieri resigns as Special Commissioner of the Eastern Adriatic Sea Port Authority
Trieste
The atypical reverse charge for the logistics sector will become applicable tomorrow
Milan
Ruggerone (Assologistica): one of the most strategic reforms we helped build is being implemented
Policy brief on cyber threats that pose risks to port infrastructure
Tallinn
It was developed by the NATO Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence
Interferry urges the EU Commission to harmonize its shipping decarbonization regulations with those of the IMO
Victoria
Failure to align - the association warned - will force shipping companies to pay twice for emissions.
In the second quarter of 2025, Chinese seaports handled 79.1 million containers (+6.1%)
Beijing
Total freight traffic was three billion tons (+3.3%), of which 1.3 billion tons were with foreign countries (+1.9%).
CK Hutchison announces plans to include a Chinese investor in the consortium to sell Hutchison Ports
Hong Kong
Without the participation of the COSCO shipping group, China would not authorize the sale
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has awarded compensation of $1 billion over the X-Press Pearl accident.
Sri Lanka's Supreme Court has awarded compensation of $1 billion over the X-Press Pearl accident.
Columbus
The container ship caught fire and sank near the port of Colombo
The Greek government sends a tugboat to the Red Sea to assist ships that may be attacked by the Houthis.
The Greek government sends a tugboat to the Red Sea to assist ships that may be attacked by the Houthis.
Piraeus
The AHTS "Giant" is leaving
Saipem and Subsea7 have signed a binding merger agreement.
Saipem and Subsea7 have signed a binding merger agreement.
Milan/Luxembourg
The transaction is expected to close in the second half of 2026.
In the second quarter, the port of Valencia handled over 1.5 million containers (+4.0%)
In the first half of 2025, the amount of new orders to Chinese shipyards fell by -18.2%
Beijing
A decrease of -3.5% in new construction completed in the period was recorded
In the second quarter of 2025, freight traffic in the port of Trieste grew by +3.7%
Trieste
Bulk cargo increased. Miscellaneous cargo fell by 13.2%.
CMA CGM and TotalEnergies form joint venture for LNG bunkering in the Port of Rotterdam.
Marseille
Agreement to supply 360,000 tons of liquefied natural gas per year to the French group's ships
In the second quarter of 2025, freight traffic in Spanish ports decreased by -4.7%
Madrid
All the main product categories are decreasing except for conventional goods
Brookfield Asset Management to sell 49% of British port group PD Ports to Spain's Pontegadea
Middlesbrough
The English company has over 1,400 employees
In the quarter April-June, freight traffic in the port of Rotterdam decreased by -2.3%
In the quarter April-June, freight traffic in the port of Rotterdam decreased by -2.3%
Rotterdam
The port authority is alarmed by the state of crisis in the national industry.
The electrification of the docks in the ports of Livorno, Piombino and Portoferraio is proceeding according to plan.
Third dock for cruise traffic in the port of Catania
Catania
Pier 25's restyling completed
Another quarter of decline in freight traffic at the port of Algeciras
Algeciras
In the period April-June, containers amounted to 1.24 million TEUs (+1.0%)
A new tax applied to cruise passengers disembarking in national ports came into force today in Greece.
Athens
Belgian rail freight company Lineas receives €61 million government loan
Brussels
The measure was approved last night by the restricted council of ministers
ERTMS installation completed on 1,400 kilometers of Italian railway network
Rome
The project is financed with 2.5 billion euros from PNRR funds.
Wärtsilä's quarterly financial and commercial results are positive.
Helsinki
The Marine Electrical Systems division will be sold to the Italian company VINCI Energies.
In the port of Barcelona the number of cruise terminals will be reduced from seven to five
In the port of Barcelona the number of cruise terminals will be reduced from seven to five
Barcelona
The mayor: For the first time in history, a limit is placed on the growth of cruises in the city.
MSC and Moby have presented their commitments to meet the AGCM's requirements.
Rome
Shipping Agencies Services will sell its 49% stake in Moby, waiving the consideration in favor of the majority shareholder. Moby commits to completely repaying its debt to SAS.
Fincantieri confirms its interest in the development of American shipbuilding
Fincantieri confirms its interest in the development of American shipbuilding
Washington
Folgiero: Commitment to deliver next-generation capabilities in full alignment with U.S. strategic priorities
The Chamber of Deputies has approved the appointment of four presidents of Italian Port System Authorities.
Rome
The names proposed for the Port System Authorities of the Southern Adriatic, Central-Northern Tyrrhenian, Western Liguria, and Eastern Liguria have been approved. Voting on the Northern Tyrrhenian Authority has been postponed.
Information exchange between state administrations for the digitalization of the maritime sector begins
Rome
The first operational meeting at the Coast Guard General Command in Rome
The Clean Maritime Fuels Platform suggests measures to support the production and distribution of clean marine fuels
COSCO Shipping Ports sets new monthly and quarterly container traffic records
Hong Kong
In the period April-June, 29.4 million TEUs were handled (+4.5%)
Sharp increase in cases of seafarers abandoning their ships
London
2,286 crew members from 222 ships involved as of early 2025
Global freight traffic saw strong growth in the first quarter of this year in anticipation of new tariffs
Global freight traffic saw strong growth in the first quarter of this year in anticipation of new tariffs
Geneva
North America saw the strongest quarterly growth in imports
In the port of Antwerp-Bruges containers and rolling stock are increasing and other types of goods are decreasing
Antwerp
Traffic congestion continues at the airport, with the situation on the landside becoming critical
A study denounces the delay of European ports in equipping themselves with cold ironing facilities.
Brussels/Pozzallo
The tender to electrify the docks of the port of Pozzallo has begun.
T&E proposes to include more non-EU transhipment ports to avoid carbon leakage
Brussels
The association calls on the EU Commission to reduce the current threshold of 65% of transhipment traffic
Federlogistica urges the immediate establishment of a control room on tariffs
Genoa
The aim is also to eliminate extra costs caused by bureaucracy.
Containerized cargo handled through the port of Singapore fell by 2.9% in the second quarter.
Singapore
Last May, ship transits through the Suez Canal decreased by -6.8%
Last May, ship transits through the Suez Canal decreased by -6.8%
Cairo
The negative trend continued in June and early July
Terminal operators are not at all satisfied with a policy that seems to have no interest in ports
Rome
Cognolato: It is essential to close the ongoing trials on several fronts.
The largest ship ever to dock at Cagliari's Porto Canale at the MITO terminal.
Milan
The container ship "MSC Venice" with a capacity of 16,652 TEU arrived yesterday
On 5 and 6 November in Lisbon a summit called by the ILA against automation in the maritime and port sector
On 5 and 6 November in Lisbon a summit called by the ILA against automation in the maritime and port sector
North Bergen/Metzingen
South Korean HD Hyundai, together with German NEURA Robotics, will develop and test welding robots in shipyards
The toll of the horrific attack on the bulk carrier Eternity C in the Red Sea is still uncertain.
Mandaluyong/London/Brussels
Joint statement by ICS, BIMCO, European Shipowners, Intercargo and Intertanko
In the first half of 2025, bulk cargo increased and general cargo decreased in the port of Marseille-Fos
Marseille
Cruise passengers increase by +5%
The Senate has approved the framework law on interports
Rome
UIR, gives the Italian interport system a modern, orderly and coherent regulatory framework
Carlo De Ruvo was elected president of Confetra
Rome
Among the challenges, the uncontrolled expansion of large logistics groups and their concentration
Number of pirate attacks on ships still high in the second quarter of 2025
Number of pirate attacks on ships still high in the second quarter of 2025
Kuala Lumpur
The number of acts of violence against crews is decreasing
Telemar and TNL Group merger agreement
Telemar and TNL Group merger agreement
Oslo/Athens/Paris
One of the top three operators in the OT/IoT services market for the maritime and superyacht sectors will be created
Attacks on ships in the Red Sea still cause deaths among seafarers
Portsmouth
Liberian-flagged bulk carrier " Eternity C" targeted
Canadian shipbuilding company Davie acquires second shipyard in Finland
Helsinki/Pori
It will buy the Enersense Offshore shipyard
Amendment on Port Labor Supply Agencies Approved
Rome
Immediate transformation into Agencies authorised to provide temporary port work
Salvini appoints a manager of a private shipping company from Campania as president of the regional AdSP
Rome
This is Eliseo Cuccaro, CEO of Alilauro
Extend the application of the 0.1% sulphur limit in marine fuels globally
Extend the application of the 0.1% sulphur limit in marine fuels globally
Berlin
This is proposed by an analysis by the International Council on Clean Transportation
IMO and EU condemn renewed attacks on ships in the Red Sea
London/Brussels
Dominguez: New violation of international law and freedom of navigation
In the first half of 2025, container traffic in the port of Gioia Tauro grew by +10.5%
Joy Taurus
2,186,211 TEUs were handled
A bulk carrier was attacked in the Red Sea
Portsmouth
The crew abandoned the ship which began to take on water
German government allocates 400 million euros to support energy transition in maritime-port sector
Over 78 million euros to the ports of Augusta and Taranto for offshore wind
Rome
Funds distributed over three years starting from 2025
The PNRR tender for interports has been reopened.
Rome
Resources available amounting to 2.2 million euros
Port of Livorno: Workers are the priority in the LTM crisis
Livorno
UPS's quarterly earnings performance declines
Atlanta
Net income in the April-June quarter was $1.28 billion (-8.9%)
Approval for the 2025 budget variation of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Sea Port Authority.
Gioia Tauro
500 thousand euros for the 49% share held by the Port Agency company
FHP Group acquires the remaining 10% stake in Lotras
Milan/Foggia
The integration between Lotras and CFI Intermodal will begin to create FHP Intermodal.
OITAF scientific document on good practices in the logistics and transport of fresh fruit and vegetables
Milan
The Northern Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority has joined the PLIKA
Livorno
Platform dedicated to training, innovation and knowledge sharing in the logistics and port sectors
Matteo Paroli's nomination as president of the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority has been signed.
Rome
He has a degree in law and a specialization in administrative law.
Container throughput increases in Haropa Port, while bulk cargo decreases.
Le Havre
In the first half of this year, containers were 1.51 million TEUs (+4%)
Bureau Veritas reports a 9.8% quarterly increase in revenues in the Marine & Offshore segment
Courbevoie
Kalmar and Konecranes increase new orders in the April-June quarter
Helsinki
The turnover of the two Finnish companies is slightly increasing
Container traffic in the port of Barcelona fell by 12.2% in the second quarter.
Barcelona
Assiterminal threatens a new wave of appeals against regulations it believes are damaging to port operations
Genoa
2M Logistics signs an agreement with Salerno-based Gallozzi
Barendrecht
The Dutch company will represent GF Logistics, a subsidiary of the Italian group, in the Benelux region.
Swiss company Kuehne+Nagel's quarterly profits fell
Schindellegi
In the period April-June of this year, net turnover grew by +1.7%
Yang Ming orders three 8,000 TEU container ships from Nihon Shipyard and Imabari Shipbuilding
Keelung/Imabari
Contract valued at $351.3-394.5 million
Italia Nostra reiterates its strong concerns about the construction of the Fiumicino-Isola Sacra port.
Rome
European maritime cities, destinations for cruise tourism - the association highlights - denounce the phenomenon of over-tourism in the cruise sector
Egypt's first automotive terminal has come into operation at Port Said East.
East Port Said
It can accommodate two car carriers at the same time
SAILING LIST
Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
Tepsa has acquired a liquid bulk terminal in the port of Rotterdam.
Singapore/Rotterdam
It was sold by Global Energy Storage Holdings
The Spinelli Group has approved its 2024 sustainability report.
Genoa
Of the company's 616 direct employees, 49% are under the age of 50.
In the second quarter of this year, cargo traffic in Turkish ports grew by +1.6%
Ankara
Cargoes to and from Italy amounted to 12.7 million tons (+10.1%)
Extension of the Simplified Logistics Zone for Genoa Ports and Dry Ports to the Savona, Vado Ligure, and Bergeggi areas.
Genoa
Approval from the ZLS Steering Committee
Isotta Fraschini Motori has inaugurated a new production line for hydrogen fuel cell systems in Bari.
Trieste
They will be used for naval and land solutions
The Grande Shanghai , the Grimaldi Group's first ammonia-ready car carrier, has been christened.
Naples
It has a load capacity of 9,000 CEUs.
The Port of Genoa, FILT, and UILT have declared a five-day strike at the Bettolo Terminal.
Genoa
Fit Cisl Liguria expressed solidarity with the workers
The tender for the dredging of the commercial dock basin at the port of Ancona has been published.
Ancona
The removal of approximately 730 thousand cubic meters of sediment is planned
Tender for the restoration and enhancement of docks 32 and 33 in the Deep Sea Zone of the port of Savona
Genoa
An investment of over 6.7 million euros is expected
There are 1,100 workers in Palermo directly employed in the seaside tourism sector
Palermo
This year, cruise traffic is expected to grow by 9.4% in the port of the Sicilian capital.
Six-month growth of +9% in freight on the St. Petersburg-India/China maritime route
Fly
FESCO operates six vessels in the service
Port of Trieste: Special Commissioner Gurrieri under investigation for money laundering
Trieste
I am certain - he declared - that I can demonstrate that I acted legally, in full transparency.
Vard signs new contract for the construction of two CSOVs
Trieste
The vessels will be used to support operations in the offshore wind sector
UIR welcomes the publication of the tender for the digitalization of the logistics chain.
Rome
Di Caterina (ALIS): a concrete tool that enhances the needs of businesses and strengthens the logistics system
GNV celebrated its first ten years of activity on the Italy-Albania route
Durres
During the period, the company's ships carried over 1.25 million passengers
A shipment of over 1.2 tons of marijuana was seized at the port of Gioia Tauro.
Reggio Calabria/Catanzaro
Members of a criminal organization that imported drugs from South America through European ports and airports have been arrested.
Yang Ming orders Hanwha Ocean to build seven 15,000 TEU dual-fuel containerships
Keelung
They will be delivered between 2028 and 2029
Walden to sell healthcare logistics business to Yusen Logistics
Paris
Exclusive negotiations announced
Solinas (Sardinian Action Party) is not at all satisfied with the state of Sardinian ports
Cagliari
The immediate establishment of a special commission is urged
ANSI welcomes the introduction of the information dashboard for managing private procurement contracts in logistics.
Rome
D'Angelo: it will allow the country to take another step forward
Russo (Confcommercio): excluding road transport from the PNRR funding was shortsighted.
Rome
First bulletin from the Freight Insights Observatory produced by the National Center for Sustainable Mobility
ABB Group posts sharp growth in quarterly financial and business performance
Zurich
In the period April-June the value of new orders grew by +16.0%
Informal consultations have begun on the preliminary proposal for the new Ancona Port Master Plan.
Ancona
Eleven meetings scheduled for July
Program agreement for preparatory and functional interventions for the construction of the bridge over the Strait of Messina
Rome
It was signed today in Rome
Project to develop an ecological station for the treatment of wastewater from ships
Naples
Initiative of the Neapolitan Group of the Cenere and Iello Landing
Assiterminal urges against bringing sediment from the Bagnoli dredging project into the port of Naples.
Genoa
Cognolato and Ferrari: It is essential to safeguard the full functionality of the commercial port's activities.
Container traffic at the Port of Long Beach fell 3.4% in the second quarter.
Long Beach
A decline of -16.4% was recorded in June
Paolo Pessina has been appointed vice president of Conftrasporto-Confcommercio.
Rome
He is president of the national federation of maritime agents and brokers
Container traffic in the port of Hong Kong decreased by -8.2% in the second quarter
Hong Kong
A decrease of -13.7% was recorded in June
Cuneo-based logistics company Nord Ovest is seeing growing financial results.
Wedge
Construction work on a new depot in Mondovì will be completed in early 2026.
Container traffic at the Port of Los Angeles grows driven by fears of new tariffs
Los Angeles
June saw the highest volume ever recorded for this month
The Management Committee of the Sardinia Sea Port Authority has adopted the DPSS
Cagliari
Green light for the concession to MITO and the appeal against the rejection of Olbia's dredging project.
Three events in Genoa for three new Explora Journeys cruise ships.
Genoa
A technical launch, a coin laying and the cutting of the first sheet metal were carried out at the Fincantieri shipyard
Grimaldi sells 5% of Terminal Darsena Toscana to Livorno Port Company
Naples/Livorno
Option to purchase an additional 5% of the share capital
Concession agreement signed that assigns management of the port of Tartous to DP World
Damascus
It has a lifespan of 30 years
Matteo Gasparato appointed president of the Northern Adriatic Sea Port Authority
Rome
He was appointed extraordinary commissioner of the same port authority
Meeting in Rome between the heads of ESPO and Assoporti
Rome
Among the topics addressed, the competitiveness of European ports in the current global context
Chinese airline OOCL reports quarterly decline in scheduled service revenues
Hong Kong
Cargo transported by the company's ships is increasing
Collaboration between the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority and the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority
Rome
Agreement with an initial duration of five years
Survey in Germany on the prospects of companies in the maritime, port and shipbuilding sectors
Hamburg
Shipowners are more concerned. Positive prospects for ports and shipyards.
Port of Augusta: Work begins on a third bridge connecting the island to the mainland.
Augusta
Work worth over 20 million euros
Vard signs contract with InkFish for new research vessel
Trieste
The deal is worth more than 200 million euros.
1.1 billion euros will be invested in the port of Hamburg to strengthen the container sector
Hamburg
Improving accessibility and port infrastructure in the Waltershofer Hafen area
Meyer Turku delivered the new Star of the Seas cruise ship to Royal Caribbean
Turku
It has a gross tonnage of 250,800 tons
ESPO calls for increased funding for ports under the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework
Brussels
The CEF programme funds have proven to be far from sufficient
Fincantieri delivers the new Oceania Allura cruise ship to Oceania Cruises.
Miami/Trieste
Two additional Sonata-class ships have been converted into orders.
PORTS
Italian Ports:
Ancona Genoa Ravenna
Augusta Gioia Tauro Salerno
Bari La Spezia Savona
Brindisi Leghorn Taranto
Cagliari Naples Trapani
Carrara Palermo Trieste
Civitavecchia Piombino Venice
Italian Interports: list World Ports: map
DATABASE
ShipownersShipbuilding and Shiprepairing Yards
ForwardersShip Suppliers
Shipping AgentsTruckers
MEETINGS
Confindustria event on the sea economy in Rome on July 15th
Rome
The public meeting of the International Containers Studies Center will be held in Genoa on July 2nd
Genoa
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Why Malta is objecting to a new price cap on Russian oil
(timesofmalta.com)
US has its eye on Greek ports
(Kathimerini)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
Uniport: Bringing debris from Bagnoli to the port of Naples would postpone long-awaited dredging.
Rome
Legora de Feo: It's necessary to find alternative solutions.
Taiwanese companies Evergreen, Yang Ming and WHL saw sharp declines in quarterly revenues.
Keelung/Taipei
In the period April-June it fell by -18.7%, -26.5% and -8.6% respectively
The establishment of the Information Dashboard for the management of private procurement contracts in logistics has been approved.
In May, freight traffic in the port of Ravenna grew by +1.4%
Ravenna
Bulk cargo is on the rise. Miscellaneous cargo is on the decline.
EU approves joint purchase of port equipment by terminal operators
Brussels
Joint definition of minimum technical specifications of equipment is also permitted
Serbian energy group EPS will import coal through the Montenegrin port of Bar
Bar
Currently imports from Indonesia pass through the port of Constanta
Fincantieri Foundation and Luiss University launch a project to strengthen the safety of underwater infrastructure.
Trieste
Among the objectives, contribute to the definition of a specific regulatory framework
Freewheeling: The government's U-turn on anti-mafia controls in the road haulage sector is a welcome development.
Modena
Franchini: If the government has realized it made a mistake, that's good news.
Agostinelli (AdSP Tirreno Meridionale e Ionio): the amendment that allows for the early transformation of the Gioia Tauro Port Agency is extremely important.
Confindustria's event on the maritime economy will take place in Rome on July 15th.
Rome
The confederation's strategic document on the sector will be presented
Kerala seeks $1.1 billion from MSC in damages over MSC Elsa 3 sinking
Thiruvananthapuram
Temporary detention of the vessel "MSC Akuteta II" granted
Trasportounito requests the cancellation of the renewal procedure of the Central Committee of the Register of Hauliers
Rome
New seizure of a load of cocaine in the port of Gioia Tauro
Reggio Calabria
16 bags containing 417 kilos of drugs were found in a container
MOL and Kinetics to build world's first floating data center
Tokyo
It will be installed on a vessel of 9,731 gross tonnage
Rijeka Gateway Terminal to become operational in early September
Copenhagen
The first ship at the second container terminal of the Croatian port is expected on September 12
Falteri (Federlogistica) urges us to focus on the development of "polycentric" logistics
Genoa
The Simplified Logistics Zone should be the cornerstone of the strategy
Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Co. acquired Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding Co.
Hiroshima/Tokyo
It was renamed Tsuneishi Solutions Tokyobay Co.
Pessina (Federagenti): Northern European logistics system is struggling. Let's take advantage of it!
Rome
Unexpected opportunity - he underlines - for the Mediterranean ports and Italian ones in particular
MSC Cruises Joins Carnival and Royal Caribbean in Capitalizing on Grand Bahama Shipyard
Miami
Negotiations underway since the end of 2024 have been successfully concluded
At The International Propeller Clubs the Dorso Award for the Mediterranean area
Naples
In recognition of the primary role played by logistics operators in Mediterranean traffic
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