APM Terminals signs an agreement with ZPMC Italy for maintenance of the cranes of the new container terminal of Goes



Today APM Terminals, the society of shipowning group Danish A.P. Møller-Mærsk, has signed with ZPMC Italy, branch Italian of the Chinese producer of crane ZPMC, an agreement in order to assign to this last totality of the activities of maintenance of means of handling, between crane of dock, crane of large square and crane to knight, than APM Terminals it will use in the new container terminal of the port of Vado Ligure, whose construction today has arrived to 85% and that 12 will enter in service next December.

Today also a document of integration of the agreements is signed picture on the occupation signed with the unions to December 2018, with the income of ZPMC Italy in the understandings with the labor organizations. In occasion of the subscription of the document it is made : currently APM Terminals Vado Ligure Spa employs directly 77 people (234 if the 157 workers of the controlled Reefer include themselves Spa Terminal) and on platform ZPMC Italy of it he employs others 18; with the start of the activity of the terminal of the next December, when only a part of the dock and the large squares of the new terminal are available, the workers of APM Terminals and ZPMC Italy will go up to 267, number - he has emphasized the terminalista society - that goes beyond the 237 that was previewed by the agreement picture on which signed occupation in December 2018. From the 2020, when the completion of the work on the dock returns the terminal totally operating, also occupation he will go growing, going up to 277 units in the first half of the year and to 309 in the second one. They will be at last the 401 workers employed to I go from APM Terminals and ZPMC Italy when the terminal works to full regime.

In occasion of the today's agreement it is evidenced that ZPMC Italy will be the first between the 36 branches of the Chinese group to propose itself in dresses of ongoing partner of the terminalisti through a local structure, organized thought and for the distribution of the technical servicings to high added value. The managing director of ZPMC Italy, Elio Crovetto, it has specified moreover that the objectives of market of the society are not limited to the national territory but, in perspective, increased to the Mediterranean basin.