Part from Genoa the strategy of ulterior increase of Hapag-Lloyd in the South Europe



In last the 4-5 years the attention towards the port of Genoa and that of Savona-Go by the great companies of navigation is increased. It has emphasized tonight the president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Ligurian Sea Western, Paolo Emilio Signorini, in occasion of the official presentation of the new regional division for the South Europe of the German company Hapag-Lloyd that has center in the capital of Liguria. A consolidation of the marine carrier to Genoa that therefore, in so far as, has not been a surprise, has said Gentlemen manifesting satisfaction for the takeover and thanking Hapag-Lloyd in order to have intensified own engagement regarding the city, in which the marine society it is present with own offices from 1997, and of the region.

A decision, that to create headquarters for the South Europe that places side by side those for the Europe North with center to Amburgo, for the Middle East with center to Dubay, for Asia with center to Singapore, for the America North with center to Piscataway (New Jersey) and for the Latin America with center to Valparaiso, that it is I yield of a strategy of centralization of the attention on the customer. If during the last few years the field of the shipping containerized is characterized by a series of concentrations, phase to which Hapag-Lloyd it has actively participated with the more recent fusions with the CSAV and the UASC(on April 17, 2014 and 24 May 2017), now - Rolf Habben Jansen has explained the managing director of the German company - it is time to concentrate itself on the requirements of the customers and the markets.

Markets - it has specified Juan Pablo Richards, managing director of Hapag-Lloyd for the South Europe - than in the immense region formed from the nations that appears on the basins of the Mediterranean and the diversified Black Sea are a lot. A region, that sudeuropea - it has added Richards - in which Hapag-Lloyd it has recorded recently a fast increase, graces also to the acquisitions, with enlivened volumes of traffic that in the 2018 they have marked increments of +53% in import and +33% in export and with intra-regional traffics that in the first nine months of this year have shown an increase of +5%. Positive trend that the company previews will continue.

Richards has evidenced that currently in this region, that she comprises the Italian area, that of the Iberian peninsula (Spain and Portugal), the areas of Turkey and of Egypt and the Med Agents Area that covers 19 Countries of the region in which Hapag-Lloyd it is represented by 15 agencies of third parts, the German company offers to 28 marine services of line for connections with all the world graces to an ability to the 83 ships employed in the area that are of 546.800 teu, pairs to beyond 30% of that total one of the fleet of Hapag-Lloyd, portacontainer that in the immense region of the South Europe they carry out ports of call in 133 ports.