The group Joints and iCON Infrastructure acquires 30% of Salerno Container Terminal



The genoese group Joints, than work mainly in the segments of the road haulage, the portualità and the logistics and that it is participated by trust iCON III of iCON Infrastructure, has acquired a participation in Salerno Container Terminal (SCT), society that manages the container terminal to the Pier Trapeze of the port of Salerno. The share capital of SCT Spa turns out subdivided now between the Gallozzi group, shareholder of majority with 55% of the capital, Srl-iCon Joints with 30% and Contship-Eurogate (through "La Spezia Container Terminal"), since anticipates in the share compages 1991, that it maintains own participation of 15%.

President of Salerno Container Terminal, Agostino Gallozzi, has express great satisfaction for the understanding reached with the family Joints, "to which - he has explained - we are legacies from feelings of friendship and esteem of long period, as well as joined from similar and complementary entrepreneurial experiences in the extraordinary world of the shipping and the portualità. Equal satisfaction - it has added Gallozzi - I wish to manifest for the income, through Joints, in the share capital of SCT Spa of the bottom "iCON Infrastructure", of which I have appreciated the great professionality and competence. We are many contents that a active trust of such international importance has considered convenient to invest in SCT Spa, characterizing in our profit and company great growth potential".

With the new composition of the share compages, Agostino Gallozzi will cover, in continuity, the charge of president and managing director of Salerno Container Spa Terminal. The Gallozzi group will have four representatives in the group, board of directors Joints, iCON a Infrastructure and a Contship-Eurogate (LSCT).

In occasion of the presentation of the new associates of SCT the president of the terminalista company has preannounced the performance of an articulated investment program that in the next few years previews the mass in work inside of the port of Salerno of five crane for the operating management of ships full hand-container of last generation, the potenziamento of the park of mechanical means for a greater and more efficient ability than handling and storage in the large squares, the acquisition of ulterior back-harbour areas.

"The objective of Salerno Container Terminal, one of the twenty societies of our group - it has emphasized Agostino Gallozzi - is to grow, to invest and to grow in a more and more oriented dimension to the markets of the shipping total, putting in field a system of strategic industrial alliances and having important new resources financial institutions, because it is clear: in a more and more animated more and more competitive world and from great alliances, of planetary capacity, without aggregations, by themselves it is not gone from no part. The port of Salerno offers so a first concrete and effective demonstration of attractive ability to new flows of investment also on the depositor of the opportunities offered from Special the Economic Zone about to institution".