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the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT has rejected the new resource of Tuscany di Navigazione against the award of Toremar to Moby
Confirmed legitimacy of the award of the contest procedure
November 2, 2015

Last week the Regional administrative court for the Tuscany has rejected the new resource introduced from Tuscany di Navigazione against Tuscany Region and Moby for the two cancellation you decree regional relative to the bestowal of the property of the society of navigation Toremar (Tuscan Regional Shipping Company).

With first I decree on September 29, 2011 is decided definitively to adjudicate the contest announced publicly for the privatization of the Toremar to the shipowning company Moby, than on January 2, 2012 the contract of passage of hand of the shareholding and the contract of service for the exercise of the marine services has undersigned with the Region.

In the 2012 Tuscany di Navigazione, society that is controlled by the company marine Delcomar and participated from Alilauro and BN of Navigation (Navy blue) and that it is excluded by the procedure of contest for the privatization of Toremar as the introduced economic offer turned out different from the technical offer and the prescription of the administration, has proposed resorted against the definitive award of the company to Moby, resource that same the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT for the Tuscany has rejected.

Successively Tuscany di Navigazione has proposed appeal and the Council of State, with deposited sentence on January 16, 2015, has received the impugnativa and cancelled the provision of exclusion of the Tuscany di Navigazione condemning the regional administration to arrange the award of the procedure of contest in favour of advance Tuscany di Navigazione the control of subjective requirement.

The Tuscany Region - as it remembers the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT for the Tuscany in the last sentence - therefore has started "the procedure for the verification of the declarations and the autocertificazioni introduced in contest from Tuscany di Navigazione, contextually asking the interested one to update to the inherent declarations the possession of requirement of blanket order and to prove own ability technical-professional economic-financial institution and. To the outcome of the verification, with I decree managing on March 30, 2015 (according to I decree of which Tuscany di Navigazione it has asked the cancellation, ndr), the Region has had not to be able itself to proceed to the award being considered indimostrato the possession of requirement demanded from the contest law".

With the last deposited sentence 26th October, that we publish below, the REGIONAL ADMINISTRATIVE COURT of the Tuscany has rejected to the new resource of Tuscany di Navigazione confirming so legitimacy of the disposed award in favor of Moby.






N. 01446/2015 REG.PROV.COLL.
N. 00778/2015 REG.RIC.

ITALIAN REPUBLIC
IN THE NAME OF ITALIAN PEOPLE
The Regional administrative court for the Tuscany
(Section Before)

it has pronounced anticipates

SENTENCE

on the resource number of general registry 778 of 2015, proposed they give:
Tuscany di Navigazione S.r.l., in person of the legal representative pro tempore, represented and defended from avv.ti Enea Baronti, Marcello Vignolo and Massimo Massa, with address which elected near the study of first in Florence, Via Maggio 30;

against

Tuscany region, in person of the President pro tempore, represented and defended from avv.ti Lucia Bora and Luciana Caso, and electively domiciled near the center of the regional Legal profession in Florence, square of Italian Unit 1;

regarding

Moby S.p.a., in person of the legal representative pro tempore, represented and defended from avv.ti Beniamino Caravita Di Toritto, Beniamino Carnevale, Saverio Sticchi Damiani and Natale Giallongo, with address which elected near the study of this last one in Florence, Via Vittorio Alfieri 19;

for the cancellation

of Decreto n. 1312 on March 30, 2015, with which the Leader of the Politiche Head office Mobility, Infrastructures and Local Public transport - Area of Coordination Local Public transport - has established not to inside proceed to the award of the contest announced publicly from the Tuscany Region for the Privatization of the society Toremar S.p.A. (Tuscan Regional Shipping Company) and the confidence of the services marine publics of cabotage armies of the Tuscany Region, for lack of requirement of technical-professional ability and economic-financial institution, demanded for the participation to the same one;
let alone, in via subordinate and conditioned, for the cancellation of Decreto n. 4098 of the 29.9.2011, with which the delegated leader, in charge of the field "Strategies and programming of local public transport of regional competence and relative performance" of the Tuscany Region, has approved of all the minutes of the giudicatrice commission and has adjudicated definitively the contest to the Moby society spa, with center in Milan and, however, of all the actions by virtue of which the contest is adjudicated the Moby spa, that is, still, in the parts in which they have not excluded the Moby spa from the same contest; and for the compensation of all the damage deriving from the execution of the illegitimate actions, in specific form or, in alternative, for equivalent, in the measure of the useful lacked one.

Seen the resource and relative the attached ones;
Seen the certificates of incorporation in judgment of the Tuscany Region and the controinteressata Moby S.p.a.;
Seen the defensive memories;
Visas all the actions of the cause;
Reporter in the public audience of day 23 september 2015 Dr. Pierpaolo Grauso and hearings for the parts the defenders as specified in the minutes;
Considered and considered in fact and right how much follows.

FACT and RIGHT

1. With sentence n. 83/2015 the Council of State, reforming the decision in first cures of this T.A.R., has condemned the Tuscany Region to adjudicate in favour of the Tuscany di Navigazione S.r.l., against the necessary control of subjective requirement, the procedure indetta with letter of invitation on January 17, 2011 for the privatization of the Toremar S.p.a and for the confidence of the services publics of regional marine cabotage. From the procedure today's the recurrent excluded era, with provisions then cancelled from the appeal judge, for allegated difference of the economic offer from the technical offer and the prescription of the administration, and the contest was adjudicated the Moby S.p.a.
Running of the sentence, in January 2015 the Tuscany Region has started the procedure for the verification of the declarations and the autocertificazioni introduced in contest from Tuscany di Navigazione, contextually asking the interested one to update to the inherent declarations the possession of requirement of blanket order and to prove own ability technical-professional economic-financial institution and.
To the outcome of the verification, with I decree on March 30, 2015 managing, the Region has had not to be able itself to proceed to the award being considered indimostrato the possession of requirement demanded from the contest law. To warning of the proceeding administration, the award would be precluded by the absence of test in order to the volume of fleeting services of marine transport executed in the period 30 November 2006 - 30 November 2009, integrating requirement of technical and professional suitability; let alone from the circumstance that Tuscany di Navigazione would inammissibilmente have declared to make use of some enterprises never previously mentioned in the actions of participation to the contest to the aims of the demonstration of the ability economic-financial institution, requirement that would not be reached with the competition of the sun enterprises art. the 49 auxiliaries opportunely indicated according to D.Lgs n. 163/2006.
1.1. Controversy anticipates is proposed by Tuscany di Navigazione S.r.l., with notified resource on 30 April and deposited on May 13, 2015, for the cancellation of the cited one I decree on March 30, 2015 regional and, subordinately, of I decree n. 4098 on September 29, 2011 of approval of all the minutes of the commission of contest and the disposed award in favour of the Moby S.p.a.
Be formed in judgment the Tuscany Region and the controinteressata society, the cause is discussed and withheld for the decision in the public audience on September 23, 2015, preceded from the warehouse of documents, defensive memories and retorts.
2. The recurrent society, initially excluded by the contest indetta from the Tuscany Region for the confidence of the services cabotage publics, you is readmitted in force of the sentence n. 83/2015 of the Council of State, which has contextually cancelled the disposed award in favour of the Moby S.p.a and condemned the Region to adjudicate the contest to Tuscany di Navigazione.
With the provision appealled here, the Region however has denied to be able itself to proceed to the award arranged from the judge, being the lack in head to Tuscany di Navigazione of necessary requirement minimums of technical capability and economic-financial institution.
2.1. With first, articulated reason of encumbrance, sub a) the recurrent one deduces to have timely transmitted to the Region - to the aims of the verification of requirement under way as a result of the decision of the Council of State - the note on January 27, 2015, with which own Alilauro auxiliary had asked the Harbour office for Naples the relative certification to the nautical miles covered for the transport fleeting in the period indicated from the lex specialis. Such documentation, correspondent within the fixed term in case of necessity assigned from the Region, would have to be deemed sufficient to according to satisfy art. the 48 the burdens burdening of Co. 2 D.Lgs n. 163/2006 on the competitor, from which the production of documents or attestations not falling back in its availability could not be demanded because, as in the species, object of release by Public Administration. It would be poured, in short, in the hypothesis of objective impediment to the production of demanded documents, such to justify the removal of the enterprise interested to the negative consequences of the useless one passed of former term art. 48 Co. 2 cit.
Under a various profile, the recurrent Tuscany di Navigazione also supports that, in compliance with art. the 43 of the D.P.R n. 445/2000, the possession of requirement would have been burden of the Region to strive directly in order to acquire from other administration the attesting certificate, this that would confirm the absence in head to the competitor of ulterior burdens regarding that to make demanded of the same certificate the competent Harbour office. On the other hand, the affirmation would be be a matter second of a certification demanded from the letter of invitation to the procedure, not turning out therefore groundless - contained in the appealled provision - which the recurrent one would have had to have of until from the moment of the presentation of the offer.
2.1.1. The doglianza is groundless.
2.1.2. The term of ten days from the demand for the contracting out station, assigned to the competitors first and second classified for it second proves of ability requirement technical-organizational economic-financial institution and from art. the 48 codicil of the D.lgs n. 163/2006, have fixed nature, as clarified from the Plenary session of the Council of State with sentence 25 February 2014, n. 10, to resolution of the interpretative contrast which the norm had given rise in law. The reasons of the decision, to which the college intends to comply, rest on the requirements of timeliness and certainty of the procedures for the confidence of contracts publics, which various would risk to remain suspended to indeterminate time against inertia of the enterprises and second before graded: inadmissible conclusion, taken into consideration the fact, for how much it finds here, that the documents to confirmation of requirement must be found already in the possession of the interested ones, potentially held to their exhibition until from the phase of the verification to champion in the starting phase of the contest, according to the first codicil of same art. the 48 cit.
In the species, the recurrent society has given keeps on the demand for the Tuscany Region on January 21, 2015 limiting itself to on January 27, 2015 transmit the request advanced from own auxiliary Alilauro S.p.a to the Harbour office of Naples and directed to the release of appropriate attesting declaration the nautical miles covered in the fleeting service of transport in the period considered from the contest law. It dictates production cannot however be deemed suitable to satisfy the burdens demonstratives weighing on Tuscany di Navigazione, neither to legitimize the exception to the established fixed term from the law for proves it of requirement, had in the first instance care is to the tempistica of the request, addressed to the Harbour office when the fixed term passing from the demand for the Region already was consumed for beyond the half, is to the content of the same request, which it does not bring some signalling about its specific purpose.
The rigor with which it must be estimated the breach of the fixed term of which to art. the 48 Co. 2 of the D.Lgs n. 163/2006 can be mitigated, in fact, only in case of objective impossibility for the enterprise to produce to the documentation not re-entering in its availability (constant jurisprudence: for all, cfr. A.P n. 10/2014, cit.), situation that the interested enterprise does not rerun whereby not it has made all how much in its power in order to procure the documentation demanded from the contracting out station, or other equipollente documentation. And it is of all evidence that, being the meager term on hand, in order to go free from guilt Tuscany di Navigazione and the auxiliary Alilauro S.p.a would have had at least to activate itself immediately and, in the same way, to put the Harbour office in a position to appreciating the urgency of the implementation.
Anyway, as punctually found from the resistant defenses, already with the publication of the sentence of the Council of State in date 11 January 2015 the recurrent one would have had to mature - second a criterion of ordinary entrepreneurial stagecoach - the knowledge of the necessity to fortify itself of the documentation to confirmation of the possession of requirement for the award of the service; to this having itself to add that to the outage of an any reply of those requirement integral in its turn a negligent behavior that very can be made to go back to the starting phases of the contest procedure, attended that the enterprises must be ready to demonstrate own economic and technical ability until from the moment of the control to champion, and that, upstream, does not seem likely that the competitors can introduce reliable substitutive declarations if not on the base of a pre-emptive verification of the documentary data of which they have. And if also Tuscany di Navigazione complains that the specific demand for an attestation which released from the competent marine authorities, absent in the contest law, it would be formulated by the single Region with the note on January 20, 2015, remains the fact that - beyond how much already observed in order to the intempestività and inadequacy of the request addressed to the Neapolitan Harbour office - the recurrent one has not offered to the Region not even a test principle about the possession of requirement.
In support of the impugnation is not then worth invoking art. the 43 of the D.P.R n. 445/2000, than, obligating the public administrations to acquire the information compulsory object of the substitutive declarations of which to the next articles. 46 and 47, that is to accept the substitutive declarations yields from the interested one, establish an alternative stranger to the fattispecie which ordered from art. the 48 D.Lgs n. 163/2006. This last norm presupposes in fact as already happened - united to the question of participation to the contest - the presentation of the substitutive declarations to work of the competitors and their acceptance by the station contracting out, and said a discipline of the controls (not as well as and not only on the declarations, how much) on the possession of requirement that, setting itself in relationship of specialty regarding that of the control on the declarations contained in the cited D.P.R n. 445/2000, onera of the relative demonstration the enterprises participants to the contests.
The certification demanded from Alilauro to the Harbour office of Naples does not re-enter, moreover, in the directory of the certifications that can form object of substitutive declaration and that, as such, is subordinates to control and acquisition compulsory in compliance with the joint provision of the articles. 46 and 71 of the D.P.R n. 445/2000 (and in this reside the difference between the case dealt and that deciding from the Council of State here, sez. V, with sentence 11 june 2013, n. 3231, recalled from recurrent and the relative one to a hypothesis of exclusion for lacked presentation the D.U.R.C., certifyd which express the letter p) of art. the 46 refers).
2.2. With the rubricate censorships sub b), recurrent - premised that the letter of invitation to the contest demanded that the participants had achieved in the 2006s - a 2008 volume of transactions for services of not inferior marine transport to 75 million euros and a not inferior total turnover to 150 million euros - exposes to have declared, relatively to the considered years, a turnover for services of marine transport of beyond 148 million euros and a total turnover of beyond 231 million euros, amounts which one reaches thanks to the volume of transactions of the auxiliary Alilauro S.p.a and of all the enterprises from it controlled and participated majority, making part of an only entrepreneurial group.
In the contract of avvalimento produced in contest, Alilauro anyway would have been engaged to supply to Tuscany di Navigazione all the resources, nobody excluded, in order to allow the execution of the service, comprised the riferibili resources to the enterprises pertaining to the group from controlled it there. Therefore the proceeding administration in considering would have roved insignificant the relative data to the turnover of the societies controlled from Alilauro, because not indicated at the moment of the presentation of the offer: infuence dominant exercised on group would justify in fact riconducibilità of turnovers of all controlled to that of group leader, as it would be confirmed by the fact that in the budget of this last one would be brought back, exactly, also the data which deduced from the budgets of the controlled ones.
The peculiar condition of an enterprise pertaining to a determined group would find confirmation, to warning of the recurrent one, in art. the 49 of the D.Lgs n. 163/2006, in force of which, to the aims of the avvalimento between enterprises of the group, an unilateral declaration is sufficient attesting the legal and economic tie between the enterprises helped and auxiliary, and not the contract ordinarily demanded for the avvalimento hypotheses extragroup.
2.2.1. Not even such censorship does not hit the mark.
2.2.2. The recurrent Tuscany di Navigazione has declared to make use, to integration of requirement of ability financial institution given from the total volume of transactions and the volume of transactions for fleeting services of marine transport in three years 2006 - 2008, of the Cyan Trading Services C.T. & S. S.r.l and of the Alilauro S.p.a. During former control art. 48 Co. 2 D.Lgs n. 163/2006, it has produced to relative documentation not only to the two enterprises auxiliaries, but also to others three enterprises - Alilauro Gru.So.n. S.p.a., Alicost S.p.a and Vola Viamare S.c to r.l. - asseritamente pertaining to a same entrepreneurial group it are under responsibility to Alilauro S.p.a., which, supports Tuscany di Navigazione, very it could put on of third party requirement of ability economic-financial institution own and controlled own.
In contrary sense, it is observed that the institute of the avvalimento, also answering to the requirement to widen the participation to the contests also to the competitors who are lacking in requirement demanded from the ban, does not allow to extend to possible infinity the chain of sub-auxiliary (the avvalimento c.d. “to cascade”), and that it goes therefore excluded from the contest who makes use of enterprise auxiliary in its turn it deprives of the requirement demanded from the ban in the sufficient measure to integrate own requirement of lacking qualification. The national jurisprudence, on the wake of that European, has also clearly specified that the existence of a relationship of social participation, that is the belongings to a same group of enterprises, does not afford to presume that one of the enterprises in relationship of participation or belongings to the group can for that solo have, to the aims of the participation to a procedure of contract confidence publics, of means of the participated enterprise or the other enterprises of the group; turning out therefore completely legitimate demand, by law and of station contracting out, of determined modality of proves of availability of requirement object of avvalimento with reference specific contract and valid for all duration of performance deducted in contest, while the mere allegation of the social ties that fascinate two enterprises, that for the contractual autonomy cannot be considered sufficient it weren't for of which they continue to enjoy the single societies the group (Cons. It are, sez. IV, 24 May 2013, n. 2832; id., sez. V, 20 june 2011, n. 3670; id., sez. IV, 20 November 2008 n. 5742; Law court EU, 2 Decembers 1999, in C-176/98 cause).
For such reasons, it must be excluded in root that the contract of avvalimento stipulated with Alilauro S.p.a allows with today's the recurrent one to make use also of requirement of the other enterprises pertaining to the same group of the helped enterprise, attended that such common belongings in itself do not involve, by those enterprises, the assumption of some obligation or engagement in favour of Tuscany di Navigazione. Indirect confirmation is drawn some from art. the 49 Co. 2 lett. g) of the D.Lgs n. 163/2006, also invoked from Tuscany di Navigazione, than for the avvalimento case infragroup the legal and economic tie in the group demands the presentation in attesting contest at least of a substitutive declaration existing: if the single fact to belong to a same group enough in order not to legitimize the avvalimento in the relationship directed between concurrent enterprise and enterprise auxiliary, tantomeno can be enough if the competitor intends to make use (also) of requirement of enterprises third, connected not to himself, but to own auxiliary (this in addition, evidently, to already found ontological inammissibilità of the avvalimento “to cascade”).
2.3. Sub c), in via subordinate clause, is denounced the bastardy of the warning of contest and the letter of invitation in the part in which they prescribe, for the participation to the procedure, requirement of specific and total turnover that the recurrent one assumes disproportionate regarding the value of the service object of the confidence.
2.3.1. The censorship, in its generic formulation, is groundless.
2.3.2. Against a total value of the confidence estimated to the B.1 point) of the letter of invitation in beyond 174 million euros for twelve years (which the amount of the temporary bail corresponds, fixed in euro 3.492.096, 20), the demand for not inferior a total triennial turnover 150 million euros and of a triennial volume of transactions in the not inferior transport fleeting to 75 million euros some profile of manifest disproportion does not anticipate or discriminatorietà and, in continuity with constant jurisprudence and the precedence of the Section, must therefore be deemed yields of a choice removed to the jurisdictional union (cfr. T.A.R. Tuscany, sez. I, 27 May 2013, n. 844).
3. With according to reason, the Tuscany di Navigazione - with reference to the opportunely conclusesi operations of contest with the award in favour of Moby S.p.a. - the lacked exclusion complains the controinteressata one, that illegittimamente it would be admitted to the procedure also having introduced the aliquot engagement of two fideiussori to constitute the definitive bail, rather than to supply a unitary guarantee as demand from the law of contest and art. the 75 D.Lgs n. 163/2006.
3.1.1. The reason is inadmissible and however irricevibile.
3.1.2. The lacked exclusion the controinteressata Moby from the contest opportunely is appealled by today's the recurrent one within resource R.G n. 1184/2011 defined from the T.A.R with the sentence n. 412/2012, then reformed in appeal. In that judgment Tuscany di Navigazione it among other things has in fact also deducted the bastardy of the disposed award in favour of Moby, asserting, with the fourth reason of which to the introductory resource and with the fourth added reason, defects of the guarantee lend from the highest bidder in the same terms that come today pedissequamente reproposed and on which the T.A.R is pronounced, this that gives rise today to inadmissible second one in idem.
Oltretutto, with the impugnation of the sentence n. 412/2012 Tuscany di Navigazione has express declared to renounce to censorships in question (v. p. 26 of the resource in appeal), of which the today's reproposition becomes to greater inadmissible reason, and this to shut up of the backwardness of the deduction in this center of defects that invest the original award of the contest.
4. With the deposited defensive memory on September 7, 2015, the recurrent formula request preliminary investigation turns to on April 3, 2015 obtain the access to documents demanded to the Tuscany Region with note, remained inevasa.
4.1. The request is inadmissible, not being proposed in the term of thirty days from the pronounced turndown from the Region with note on May 4, 2015 and the respect of the modalities previewed from art. the 116 c.p.a second codicil. Neither it considers the college of having to set in action own powers officiosi instructors, be a matter itself of insignificant documentation to the aims of deciding.
5. In force of all the considerations that precede, the resource cannot find acceptation.
5.1. The argument expenses follow the soccombenza and are liquidated as in device.

P.Q.M.

The Regional administrative court for the Tuscany (Section Before), definitively pronouncing, rejects to the resource and sentence the Tuscany di Navigazione S.r.l to the remelting of the trial-like expenses, than liquid in total euros 4,000, 00, besides the accessories of law, in favour of each of the resistant counterparts.
It orders that sentence anticipates is executed by the administrative authority.
So decided in Florence in the Council Chamber of day 23 september 2015 with the participation of the magistrates:
Armando Pozzi, President
Alessandro Cacciari, Councilman
Pierpaolo Grauso, Councilman, Drafter



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THE PRESIDENT

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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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