Maersk announces the first two services of line that will scale the new container terminal of Vado Ligure



Obviously to Genoa and Savona it is the much high wait to know as the Danish company Maersk Line, world leader of the containerized marine transport, will distribute to own services between the ports of the northern Mediterranean successively to the previewed inauguration next 12 December of I go Gateway, the container terminal of the port of Savona - Vado Ligure that will be managed APM Terminals, the branch terminalista of the Maersk group that possesses 50.1% of the capital of Goes Gateway, society participated to 40% from the COSCO Shipping Ports of shipowning group Chinese COSCO Shipping and to 9.9% from the harbour society Chinese Qingdao Port International Development Co.

A wait that is common also to other Italian ports and foreign countries, for the repercussions that the opening of the new harbour terminal will be able to have on the configuration of the net of services of line in the Mediterranean.

A first indication on the intentions of Maersk has reached today with the communication that beginning from the next February the navigation company will divert on the new vadese terminal two services. Not draft of primary services operated from the ships of the Danish group on the routes East-West, but this naturally does not mean that the company does not lay by excessive confidence on the possibilities of Goes main Gateway to become one of the hub of the Mediterranean market, how much probably that Maersk does not want to load of excessive activity the new terminal during its phase of running.

From February they will begin to land to the terminal of I go the portacontainer of the service Europe - Middle East (ME2), that it connects the Mediterranean with the Middle East and India, and of the Med service - Montreal Express (MMX), that it connects the Mediterranean with the America North.

Currently the spin of service ME2, in which seven ships from 7-8mila are employed teu, scale the ports of Dammam, Al Jubayl, Abu Dhabi, Jebel Ali, Salalah, Jeddah, Port Saïd, Marsaxlokk, Tanger Med, Algeciras, Valencia, Fos and Genoa. I go Gateway has announced that from the next February, after the port of call to the French port of Fos, the service will touch the new container weekly terminal of Goes in order then to continue towards the port of call Egyptian of Port Saïd. To lose the touched one it will be therefore the port of Genoa.

The current spin of service MMX, that it engages five portacontainer from 2.500 teu, carries out ports of call to La Spezia, Fos, Algeciras, Tanger Med, Montreal, Tanger Med. I go Gateway has specified that from February line MMX, that will always leave from Tangeri, will make then broken towards the port of Salerno, recently cancelled from the spin of the service, before to touch the terminal of Vado Ligure in order to continue therefore for Fos-sur-Mer. To make of the expenses it will be therefore the port of La Spezia, while Salerno will be re-inserted in the spin.