In the quarter July-september the harbour terminals of Eurokai have enlivened 3,7 million container (- 4.7%)



In the third trimester of the 2015 harbour terminal that is under responsibility of the German group Eurokai they have enlivened a traffic of the container pairs to 3,7 million teu, with a bending of the -4,7% on the same period last year that it is determined mainly by the reduction of the volumes enlivened from the Italian terminal of Gioia Tauro, the terminals managed in the two main German ports of Bremerhaven and Amburgo and from the terminal managed in the Moroccan port of Tanger Med.

The single German terminals of the group, that they are operated by Eurokai work through joint venture joint Eurogate with compatriot BLG, have enlivened 2,2 million teu (+0.1%), of which almost 1,5 million teu enlivened in the port of Bremerhaven (- 4.1%), 600 thousand teu in that of Amburgo (- 7.5%) and 129 thousand teu in the port of Wilhelmshaven (+811.3%).

In Italy, where the German group work through the Contship Italy, joint venture between Eurokai (66.6%) and Eurogate (33.4%), the traffic has been pairs to beyond 1,1 million teu, with a decrease of the -8,5% on the period July-september of 2014. In the main Italian terminal of the group, that it is that managed from the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) in the port of Gioia Tauro, are enlivened 580 thousand teu (- 19.6%). In light decrease it has turned out also the traffic in the port of Salerno operated from Salerno Container Terminal (SCT), than it has been attested to 52 thousand teu (- 3.5%). In decided increase, instead, the volumes of traffic enlivened to La Spezia from La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) with 293 thousand teu (+5.0%), to Ravenna from the Terminal Container Ravenna (TCR) with 56 thousand teu (+7.6%) and to Cagliari from the Cagliari International Container Terminal (CICT) with 172 thousand teu (+12.3%).

With respect to the consisting contraction of the enlivened containerized trade from the MCT in the port calabro of Gioia Tauro, remembering that last August the CSM Italy-Gate, joint venture 50:50 between Contship Italy and Gitaurco (group Mediterranean Shipping Company), has acquired remaining 33.3% of the actions of Medcenter Container Terminal becoming only owner of the society ( on 10 August 2015), and specifying that this transaction has been an important member of the process of restructure of Medcenter Container Terminal, the Eurokai group has announced that the negotiations with the main customers of the MCT have been time capacities to term with success who have allowed an increase of the rates, even if - it has confirmed the German group - the traffic volumes are diminished in meaningful way. This situation - it has specified Eurokai - has determined in the first nine months of a 2015 decrease of the operating result of the group Contship Italy regarding the same period last year.

In the other terminals of the group, in the third trimester of this year to Tanger Med, Moroccan port in which Eurokai work through the Eurogate Tanger, 13.8% are enlivened 272 thousand teu (- 22.5%), in the portuguese port of Lisbon the LISCONT Operadores de Contentores have enlivened 59 thousand teu (+3.8%) and in the Russian port of Ust-Luga the OJSC Ust-Luga Container Terminal has enlivened 24 thousand teu (-).

In the first nine months of the 2015 harbour terminal of the Eurokai group they have enlivened a total of 11,1 million teu, with a bending of the -1,2% on the period January-september last year. The German terminals have enlivened 6,2 million teu (+1.7%), of which 4,2 million teu to Bremerhaven (- 3.7%), 1,7 million teu to Amburgo (- 0.2%) and 326 thousand teu to Wilhelmshaven (+510.2%). In Italy 15.7% are enlivened 3,6 million teu (- 5.4%), of which 1,9 million teu to Gioia Tauro (-), 892 thousand teu to La Spezia (+11.8%), 493 thousand teu to Cagliari (+4.7%), 181 thousand teu to Salerno (+12.2%) and 156 thousand teu to Ravenna (+7.8%). To Tanger Med the traffic has been pairs to 981 thousand teu (- 3.7%), to Lisbon to 165 thousand teu (+18.1%) and Ust-Luga to 63 thousand teu (- 20.6%).