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Three proposals of the Confetra to the government so that the economic pandemic does not make more damages than that sanitary one
Nicolini: draft of a package of measures that needs of covers for about nine billions
March 31, 2020

The president of the General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics (Confetra), Guido Nicolini, has introduced the Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister, and to the ministra of Infrastructures and of the Transports, Paola De Micheli, a document from the title "To react quickly. The ‘post-war period’ of the Logistics risks to undermine the entire national economy", that we publish below, evidencing that the economic pandemic risks to make more damages than that sanitary one.

On a yearly basis - it has explained the organization that represent the Italian enterprises of the logistics - Centro Studi of the Confederation previews a contraction of the volumes between the 20 and 25%. If the commercial interchange of the Country with the remainder of the World will inflect of about 150 billion euros, as by projection - it has specified Confetra - in terms of goods enlivened this would be equivalent to about 90 million tons, between import and export: the equivalent of 18 billion turnover for the entire field of the logistics and the transport goods. The Confederation has emphasized that this is equivalent to a devastation for activities that, as demonstrated also in this dramatic provoked crisis diffusing itself of the contagion of Covid-19, represent the connecting woven one of the national economy, the consumption, supplyings, the exchanges, of the imports, of the exports.

"We are - president of Confetra, Guido Nicolini has remembered - the net that holds the real economy and if it had to collassare, not there is resumption that holds. From weeks we work substantially in loss: to that is unchanged fixed costs, but medium to the 25-30% of the volumes. Specifying that in this moment of emergency the field of the logistics could not "certainly remain at home", Nicolini has evidenced that but "now it serves a solid injection of liquidity through direct and attivabili instruments in a matter of days, not weeks, in order to hold the field standing".

Three, substantially, the proposals advanced from the Confederation to the government: a reduction flat of the fiscal wedge of 40% for next the 20 months, the possibility to quickly embed through CDP 50% of the invoices inevase without burdens, the constitution of a national Bottom in order to eat the enterprises that can demonstrate a gap of turnover between the period of the emergency and lockdown 2020 regarding the same period of 2019.

"Draft - it has specified Nicolini - of a "package" of measures that needs of covers for about nine billions. And we only speak about the logistic field and transport goods. It is clearly that all this has a sense if the government, as we hope, will want indeed to set up urgent politics for the resumption as that evoked in recent days from Dragons. An other provision from 25 billion euros instead, bond in order to only postpone of an ulterior month the fiscal expirations and little other, would mean in wide measure to condemn to us to close clappers in a matter of weeks".


TO REACT QUICKLY
The "post-war period" of the Logistics risks to undermine the entire national economy

30 March 2020

PREMISED

The Field of the logistics and the transport goods has been revealed, in the emergency, all its strategicità. Almost 100 thousand enterprises, 1,5 million attache's, 85 billion turnover in 2019: 9% of the GDP national.
The connecting architecture and organizational engineering of national the economic system: harbour terminalisti, to interpose, operating railway goods, logistic haulers, warehouses, postal centers of distribution, couriers, operators, shippers, doganalisti, operators to you of the aerial cargo, handlers. A longest and complex chain of enterprises and professionality, all interrelate between they, than every day it has guaranteed and it guarantees consumption, distribution, supplying, import, export. This a lot to the final, city consumers and families, as for the manufacturers of every section, from steel to agriculture.
The effects of the Covid-19 have been and are tragic. For activity as ours that are based on the OPERATING FLUIDITY and VOLUMES TO TRANSPORT, the twofold effect of the physical limitations taxes from the control measures and of the closing of the productive activities our customers, is dramatic. To obviously unchanged fixed costs for the companies (costs of labor, management of the fleets of carriers, rent and management of the warehouses, software, administrative burdens) has corresponded instead reductions of the volumes until 70%, according to the specific segments.
AND the WORSE one MUST STILL COME, at least for two orders of reasons. The first: the effects of the lockdown, before only in the commerce then also productive-manufacturer, will produce its indefensible economic effects in next the 6/8 weeks. According to our Centro Studi, an ulterior contraction between the 40 and 60% of the enlivened residual volumes will be recorded, to April and then to May, regarding freedom of expression. Obviously a lot will depend on the eventual delay of the lockdown same after on 3 April.
But, paradoxicalally, still more worrisome are the analyses of scene of medium period.
Istat and State Audit Court, in Relazioni of accompanyment to the DL Italy Cure, have spoken about "economy from post-war period".

ChinaDesk (attached 1), on the base of the projections OCSE that estimate the contraction of the World gdp of the -1,5% (crisis of 2009 carried to the contraction of the -1,4%), executes an analysis of the impacts on the commercial exchanges and the balance of the balance of payments in Italy in 2020.

It is taken to the 2009 (Great Recession and Porcine pandemic H1N1) to reference. Esteem, so, a contraction of the exchanges in 2020 between Italy and remainder of the world of 149,1 billion euros (- 18%) so shared: consumer goods (- 80,6 Mld€), industrial goodses (- 32,4 industrial Mld€) and assets consumption/(- 36.1 Mld€).

The Cerved (attached 2), working on two various scenes (concluded crisis to May or December 2020) previews, for our Field, on base anniversary, a reduction of the turnover attested in a scissor between the 18 and 30%.

With of the data of such first studies, confirmation a tendency: the crisis for our varrà Field medium at least 20% of volumes and turnovers, and consequently of job and occupation. We speak therefore about 95 million tons of goods in less, that they are worth 17 billion turnover and 320 thousand places of work.

It has done good the Government to offer to first answers to the enterprises previewing deferrals of burdens and taxes to 30 or 60 days.

Now he is indispensable to change registry.
These over exposed are numbers "from post-war period" for the Field of the logistics and the transport goods, and need participations and set in action urgent that are able to give spallata to these statistics from the immediate side of the liquidity availability.
Some of these will need of direct investments and administrative speditezza: beginning from the realization of all the relative programmed infrastructural works to the completion - in our Pese - of the nets TRY for corridors, adductions, Core nodes and comprehensive. Other measures do not need, instead, of economic coverage, be a matter themselves of innovations and normative and procedural simplifications that the logistic industry invokes from years.

These the little and clear priorities that the entire Confederal System intends, in the immediate one, to subject to the Government and the Parliament being depended on the support of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports.
This also to light of taken of contained formal action in article 61 of the DL relative the Italy Cure and to the acknowledgment of the Field transport goods and logistics (letter n article 61) as one of the productive rows more hit by the effects of the crisis.


1 - PARTICIPATIONS FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE COSTS OF LABOR

The logistics is the Field labour intensive for excellence and the costs of labor are the incomprimibile element of greater impact on the business budgets. A reduction of such cost would allow with the enterprises first of all to survive and favorably to assign at least part of such savings to the investments, in particular those in technological innovation. The Covid-19 emergency has returned not more rinviabile such measure. One wonders therefore to preview relief contributive for the enterprises that post-emergence maintain to the occupational levels precedence substantially unchanged. To pull down of 40% the costs of labor needs of estimable cover between the 6 and 7 billion euros considering an audience of beneficiaries of about 90 thousand enterprises, 900 thousand employee and a medium annual salary and wage (RAL) of 30 thousand euros.

He is moreover indispensable to preview a moratorium of the CCNL in expiration in the period of the Covid-19 emergency; this measure does not have costs for the State.



Contributive bonus for the companies of logistics, shipment, transport


Alle enterprises of the logistic Field, shipment, transport that, also hit from the emergency Coronavirus, on December 31, 2021 maintain until at least 80% of the occupational levels in force to the date of 1 February 2020, intending for such the workers not in test to time indeterminate and excluded the apprentices, is recognized for the same period as above the exoneration from the deposit of the 40 percent of the social insurance contributions for cover IVS at the expense of the same ones. The share remains firm of computes of the pension performances.


Moratorium CCNL in expiration


In consideration of the economic repercussions Coronaviruses provoked by the emergency, are postponed until on December 31, 2020 the vigenza of the national collective bargaining agreements of all the economic fields under renew to the date of effectiveness of anticipate disposition.


2 - LIQUIDITY

The Covid-19 emergency is provoking in the field a liquidity crisis financial institution of unimaginable proportions. They are estimated already today beyond 2,5 billion euros of unsolved credits for the single sections of the transport on rubber, the deliveries and shipments. If helped the great part of the companies does not risk the failure: the times of proceeds of the invoices, today, medium on the 80 days, are not more sustainable. One wonders therefore to activate an extraordinary participation of Bank of Deposits and Loans so that it, directly or through the financial institutions, advance payments the quota proceeds leave of the issued invoices. For the cover of the measure a fabisogno is estimated of 1,2 miliaridi of euro, partially intended as spin bottom, partially to cover of burdens and interests.

Moreover the creation of a Bottom to the aim is necessary to eat the Field of the logistics and the transport goods for the dimunuzione of turnover.

One moreover wonders to suppress for the 2020 increase anniversary on triennial base of the Ires share for the concessionaires. That features of airports, freeways, ports, to interpose you or railway infrastructures, the heavy financial ruin of volumes enlivened and transported for all the year in course, today return this forecast introduced with the last Law of Stability indefensible.



Advance on invoice
1. The enterprises that carry out road haulage activity third parties goods, international shipment, courier, doganalista, operating department store postal, terminalisti, can introduce to Bank of Deposits and Loans for through of the financial institutions demanded of advance on the invoices emitted in the period from 1 February 2020 on September 30, 2020 pairs to the 50 percent of the taxable income, without burdens neither interests. The advance is given back to Bank of Deposits and Loans in the term of 12 months with burdens borne by the State.
2. With I decree of the Ministry of the Economy and Finances to emanate itself within 15 days from the effectiveness of the disposition of which to codicil 1 the relative modalities of performance are established


Bottom for the logistics


Near the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports a Bottom is instituted in order to eat the transport companies shipment and logistics that in the period of the Covid-19 emergency, even though remained in activity to the aim to guarantee the transport of the goods of which to attached the 1 of DM 25.3.2020, they can demonstrate a reduction of the revenues regarding the same period of 2019.


Abolition for 2020 of the Ires increase for the concessionaires


The Ires increase in head to the public Federal property concessionaires, of which to article 1 codicil 716 of Legge 27 December 2019 n.160, it is suppressed for the annuity in course


3 - PARTICIPATIONS OF SIMPLIFICATION

Confetra has collaborated with the Cnel to a first mapping of the participations of simplification that interest the logistics. It is calculated that the weight of the bureaucracy on the Field involves an increase of annual estimable burdens in 30 billion. One wonders to take part with a first series of participations that do not involve burdens borne by the State, but contribute, in particular in the phase post-emergence to make to share the Field.

They are brought back unanimously under five proposals already approved of by the Shareholders' meeting of the Cnel, correspondents from the Presidency of the Cnel to the Chambers and already hinged and partially discussed in the competent Commission (you see attached 3). To accelerate their transformation in bureaucratic laws would overwhelm good part degi onrei that weigh on the enterprises and that over they are recalled.



Rationalization of the warnings ship that the commanders must send to the several P.A of the port


1. To article 179 of the navigation code they are assistants, in fine, the following codicils:
“The note of information of which to the first codicil, comprising data of the forms listed there, it is acquired in via data transmission from the competent marine authority, on system PMIS (Port Management Information System), and from this contextually made available, in via data transmission, to all the public administrations of which to article 1, codicil 2, of I decree legislative 30 March 2001, n. 165, that they take part in the procedures of assessment and control inherent to the operations of arrival and departure of the ships of which to anticipates article.
It is made prohibition the public administrations of which to the eighth codicil asking the commander for the ship or the marine raccomandatario or another representative for the shipowner or person authorized from the commander, the shipment of the data of which to the note of already acquired information from the competent marine authority”


Competence of Justice of the Peace in the controversies on the CdS of the road haulage enterprises


2. After codicil 2 of article 7 of I decree legislative 1 september 2011, n. 150, are inserted the following one:
“2-second. In the cases in which the violation it is contested to leading of commercial of properties or stopped vehicles in leasing from subjects enrolled in White the national one of the haulers, the opposition of which to codicil 2 it is proposed in front of Justice of the Peace of the place in which the society has registered office”.


Harmonization of the business hours of the P.A participants to the phase of clearance


To article 1 of I decree legislative 8 November 1990, n. 374, are assistant, in fine, the following codicil:
“9-second. The dispositions of codicils 1, 2, 4, 5 and 8 of anticipate article are applied also to the staff been dependent on the public administrations of which to article 1, codicil 2, of I decree legislative 30 March 2001, n. 165, that they take part in the procedures of assessment and control in the norm and law enforcement of the European Union in matter of breaking in of the goods in the territory of the European Union and of export of the goods from the territory of the European Union. To the aims of which to codicil anticipates, the implementations that codicil 2 places at the expense of the Director of the Agency of customs and the monopolies intend places at the expense of the Minister that is of the summit of the administration whose offices are involved in the aforesaid procedures”.


Delegation for I reorder of the activity of regulation in the Field you transport and logistics


1. The Government is delegated to adopt, within twelve months from the date of effectiveness of anticipates law, decrees legislative for reorders and the simplification of the afferent discipline to the system of the logistics of the goods, in the respect of the following principles and directive criteria:
a) definition of the withins of competence of the placed activities of regulation in being from the Ministry of infrastructures and the transports, from the national Agency for safety of the railroads and street and highway infrastructures, from the Manager of the railway infrastructure national railway Net Italian Spa and from the Authorities of harbour system and, with reference to the within of the services of public usefullness, from the Authority of regulation of the transports, in the matter of the logistics of the goods;
b) simplification and rationalization, also to the aim to avoid duplications of participations regolators, the concessori procedures, authorized to you and of control whose phases are remittances to the competence of distinguished public administrations contemperando the requirements of effectiveness of the safety procedures in the circulation of the goods with the efficiency and the speditezza of the procedures, the certainty of the regulation, the clarity and not duplication of the implementations.
2. I decree legislative of which to codicil 1 it is adopted on proposal of the Minister of infrastructures and the transports, advance acquisition of the opinion of the unified Conference of which to 28 article 8 of I decree legislative August 1997, n. 281, of the Council of State and the national Council of the economy and the job, that they are profitable in the term of forty-five days from the date of transmission of the outline of I decree legislative, passed which the Government can however proceed.
The outline of I decree legislative successively is transmitted to the Chambers for the expression of the opinions of the competent Parliamentary commissions for matter and the financial profiles and of the Parliamentary commission for the simplification, than they are pronounced in the term of sixty days from the date of transmission, passed which I decree legislative can be however adopted. If the term previewed for the opinion falls in the thirty days that successively precede the expiration of the term previewed from codicil 1 or, the same expiration is postponed of ninety days. The Government, in case does not intend to comply to the opinions parliamentarians, newly transmits the text to the Chambers with its observations and eventual modifications, equipped with the necessary integrating elements of information and motivation. The competent Parliamentary commissions for matter can be expressed on the observations of the Government within the term of ten days from the date of the new transmission. Passed such term, I decree legislative can however be adopted.
3. Within twelve months from the date of effectiveness of I decree legislative of which to codicil 1, the Government can adopt, in the respect of the principles and directive criteria and of the procedure of which to article anticipates, or more you decree legislative bringing integrating and corrective dispositions.


Update of the concerning dispositions of the Civil code the shipment activity goods


Al Regio I decree 16 March 1942, n.262, Book IV, Title III, Head IX, Section III are brought the following modifications.
Article 1737 so is replaced:
Art.1737 (Notion)
The shipment contract is a mandate with which the shipper assumes the obligation to conclude on behalf in proper noun and of sending or, if equipped of representation powers, in name and on behalf of sending, or more contracts than transport, with or more carriers and than to complete the accessory operations.

Article 1738 so is replaced:
Art. 1738 (Revokes)
It stops remaining the observance of the disposed one of article 1725, until the shipper has not concluded the contract of transport with the carrier, sending can revoke the shipment order object of the mandate, reimbursing the shipper of the supported expenses and corresponding a fair compensation to it for the lend activity.

Article 1739 so is replaced:
Art. 1739 (Obligation of the shipper)
In the execution of the mandate the shipper is held to observe the instructions of sending.
The shipper does not have the obligation to supply to the assurance of the things sent, except expressed demanded of sending. Article 1740 so is replaced:

Art. 1740 (Straight of the shipper)
The fee which had to the shipper is determined by the free dealing of the parts that stipulate the contract.
Sending is always responsible towards the shipper of the payment of the hire and the other expenses supported from the shipper for the execution of the mandate, also with regard to the costs deriving from the fact of parts third, independently from the existing pacts between said parts third and sending.
Being given how much arranged from article 1710, codicil 1 and 1739 codicil 1, the shipper is not responsible towards sending of the nonperformance of the carriers and of other subjects with which it has contracted or that however they take part in the execution of the transport.

Article 1741 so is replaced:
Art. 1741 (Shipper carrier: notion and responsibility)
The shipper who with means other people's own or express assumes the execution of the transport - in all or partially - is defined shipper carrier and has the obligations and the rights of the carrier.
In case the Shipper carrier is held to the compensation of the derivative damages to has right it, for loss or damage of the sent things been necessary during the phases of transport and technical lying, the due compensation could not be advanced to indicated how much from art. 1696.

Article 1696 so is replaced:
Art. 1696 (Limits to the compensation for loss or damage of the transported things)
The damage deriving from loss or damage is estimated according to the going rate of the things transported in the place and in the time of it gives back.
The compensation which had from the carrier cannot be advanced to an euro for every kilogram of gross weight of the goods lost or damaged in transport national earthlings and to the amount of which to article 23, codicil 3, of the Convention for the street transport of goods, ratified with law 6 Decembers 1960, n. 1621, and next modifications, in transport international earthlings, that is to the limits previewed from the international conventions or the applicable national laws for transport airplane, marine, fluvial and railway, there always that they rerun the previewed foundations for rising of the responsibility of the carrier.
If the transport is carried out for through more vectorial means than various nature, and it is not possible to distinguish in which phase of the transport the damage has happened, the compensation which had from the carrier could not in any case be advanced to an euro for every kilogram of in transport national gross weight of the goods lost or damaged and to three euros for every kilogram of in transport international gross weight of the goods lost or damaged.
The forecast of which to the codicils precedence he is not derogabile in favor of the carrier if not in the cases and with the modalities previewed from the special laws and the applicable international conventions.
The carrier cannot make use of the limitation of the responsibility previewed to its favor from anticipates article where is supplied the test that the loss or the damage of the goods is determined by fraud or serious guilt of the carrier or employee its and preplaces, that is of every other subject of which it has made use for the execution of the transport, when such subjects have churn in the exercise of their functions.

Article 2761 so is replaced:
Art. 2761 (Credits of the carrier, the shipper, the mandatory, the depositary and the sequestratario)
The credits employee from the contract of transport and shipment and those for expenses of tax anticipated by the carrier or the shipper have privilege on the transported things or sent until these remain near of he.
Such privilege can be practised also on assets object of a various transport or of a shipment from those for which the credit is risen provided that sayings you transport or shipments constitute execution of an only contract for periodic or ongoing performances.
The credits deriving from the execution of the mandate have privilege on the things of sending that the mandatory stops for the execution of the mandate.
The credits deriving from the warehouse or the conventional seizure in favor of the depositary and of the sequestratario have parimenti privilege on the things that these stop for effect of the warehouse or the seizure. The dispositions of the second and the third codicil of art. the 2756 are applied to these privileges.
In case the mandatory has supplied to on behalf pay the custom duties of sending, its credit has the privilege of which to art. the 2752.


4 - PARTICIPATIONS IN ORDER TO ACCELERATE THE DIGITALISATION IN THE FIELD

The Covid-19 emergency has been profitable obvious how much the digitalisation of the administrative procedures and in general terms I use it of the digital technologies are fundamental for the operativity of the system Country. The immaterial connections return the continuation of many activities also of the PA possible. In the logistics moreover still too many procedures are unfortunately employee from the paper. Profit appears to pick such opportunity, sure exceptional, in order to recover the lost time and to quickly proceed in the digitalisation of all a series of documents and processes, is in the relationships between operators and PA who between same operators. The immediate start wonders moreover for the Unico Amministratico Door (ITS) and for the Unico Doganale Door and Controls (SUDOCO) introduced with the D.Lgvo n.169/2016. Ques'tulitmoche allows the interoperability of the systems of all the PA involved in the clearance procedures, with optimization of the times and consequent reduction of the burdens at the expense of the enterprises. The DPCM for the start of the SUDOCO is ready from years, but ispiegabilmente firm in order better not specified verifications still in course. It goes immediately emanated and put in action Contextually one wonders that in order to favor the ripartenza of the economy, taken into consideration the fundamental role of the international exchanges, allows the maximum fluidity of the traffics in import-export reducing temporary the coefficients of risk of the customs system computerized that determine the outcomes of the clearance.



Digitalisation of documents and the processes that impattano on the Field of the logistics


In exception to the enforced normative dispositions or the commercial uses of square, all the destined certifications of any nature to private Public Administration or, documents of transport, the authorizations, the certificates of credit and every document necessary to assist the operations of import and export of goods, will be sent in the single digital format. Whereby the paper document was demanded originally, the document could be replaced from suitable digital forms of authentication.


Modifications analysis of customs risk


In constancy of Covid-19 emergency, made blank detailed lists investigative requirements for anti-drug, anti-terrorism, traffic of sanitary weapons and for alert, to all the goods is recognized a temporary reduction of the percentages of physical control in import and export apt to guarantee the maximum operating fluidity in the phase of clearance.
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Rixi: It is necessary to overcome a maritime ETS that risks shifting traffic and investments to non-European ports.
Luxembourg
What is needed - highlights the vice minister - are incentives and flexibility, not new constraints
Houthis threaten to resume attacks on ships transiting the Red Sea
Sana'a
A total ban on navigation has been declared for all vessels linked to Israeli interests.
Global trade in goods may start to slow down
Global trade in goods may start to slow down
Geneva
This is reported by the latest reading of the WTO Goods Trade Barometer.
The new port road connection to Sampierdarena has been activated in Genoa.
The new port road connection to Sampierdarena has been activated in Genoa.
Genoa
Paroli: the work now allows approximately 900-1,000 heavy vehicles per day to directly access the port's operational areas.
The rapporteurs of the Ports Bill defend the governance project centered on the Ports of Italy.
Rome
Ghio (PD) denounces that the governing bodies of this new company would be appointed entirely by the government. Ghirra (AVS): The objectives of national coordination could have been achieved by strengthening the National Conference of Port Authority Presidents.
US logistics companies WWEX Group and Auctane announce merger
Milan/Dallas/Austin
Artificial intelligence plays a leading role
Unexpected decline in European intermodal traffic in the first quarter of 2026
Brussels
UIRR: Infrastructure chaos caused by construction sites interrupting railway lines
Hanseatic Global Terminals acquires remaining 50% of Hanseatic Global Terminals Aracruz
Rotterdam/Aracruz
The company is building the new Brazilian container port of Imetame
Conftrasporto: The Ports Bill highlights clear operational, financial, and regulatory compliance issues.
Rome
Russo: the competences of Ports of Italy would overlap with those of the Port System Authorities, the Ministry of Transport and the Art
WoodMac believes decarbonisation rules could have a major impact on LNG-powered vessels
Edinburgh
According to the company, European regulations would put ships with DFDE engines out of the market
French MN will transport Avio's Vega C launcher between Italy and South America
Nantes
The French company will equip itself with a new vessel designed specifically for the transport of space equipment
EU methodology for calculating greenhouse gas emissions from transport services comes into force
Brussels
The system is based on the international standard EN ISO 14083:2023
The container ship MSC Sariska V was hit by two shells in the Persian Gulf on Monday.
Geneva/Rome
All crew members were unharmed.
In the first quarter, freight traffic in the port of Bremen/Bremerhaven grew by +5.8%
Bremen
Containers amounted to 1,245,515 teu (+4.4%)
MSC acquires 51% stake in Pivdennyi container terminal (Odessa)
Odessa
It has a traffic capacity of 400 thousand TEUs per year.
The IMO Convention on Liability and Compensation for Damage in Connection with the Carriage of Hazardous and Noxious Substances by Sea will enter into force on 19 November 2027.
London
Dominguez: a long-awaited achievement, which fills an important gap in the international regime
In April, ship transits through the Suez Canal increased by +13.9%
In April, ship transits through the Suez Canal increased by +13.9%
Cairo
In the first four months of 2026, an increase of +12.1% was recorded
In the first quarter, freight traffic in the port of Naples fell by -5.3%, while in Salerno it grew by +6.4%.
Naples
Container throughput in the two ports was 167,433 teu (-3.5%) and 101,509 teu (+7.8%) respectively.
Kerdjoudj (Feport): With the revision of the EU ETS, part of the proceeds should be allocated to ports.
Brussels
Call to carefully evaluate the risk of relocating transhipment traffic
With the new COSCO-PTP terminal, the port of Tarragona relaunches itself on the container market.
Tarragona
Construction work is expected to be completed in 2028 when the terminal will have a capacity of 680,000 TEUs.
In 2025, Egyptian ports set their new all-time container throughput record
Alexandria, Egypt
Strong growth in transhipment volumes, which had remained stable in 2024
The national contract for port mooring and boatmen has been renewed.
Rome
Filt-Cgil strengthens a regulatory framework essential for the sector
A study explains how to make the use of OPS facilities in European ports more attractive and effective.
Brussels
Clearer and more comparable tariffs are also needed.
Federlogistica calls for amendments to the port governance bill.
Genoa
Falteri: the new structure must guarantee the Port System Authority adequate financial resources and effective operational tools.
PSA Padova established to develop and manage the Padua intermodal terminal
Padua
The shareholders of Interporto Padova and Padova Hall have approved the merger plan
The Federagenti assembly will be held in Civitavecchia on July 3rd.
Rome
Pessina: We will not discuss regulations, community relations, or the pursuit of theories and bureaucracy, but rather the challenges of Italian port infrastructure.
Spediporto has opened its own representative office in Hong Kong
Genoa
Giachero: the opening of this desk is also an opportunity for young people
Arcese, Conti and Cosulich establish a company for the port logistics of finished vehicles
Livorno
HMM orders eight bulk carriers and two gas carriers
Seoul
Investment of approximately 1.1 billion dollars
MPC Container Ships has purchased four 7,000 TEU containerships built between 2023 and 2024.
Oslo
Investment of 340 million dollars
FedEx posts record quarterly and annual revenue
Memphis
Total revenues in fiscal year 2026 amounted to $94.7 billion (+7.7%)
Geopolitical uncertainty has become the main risk for shipping
Munich
Evergreen purchases 140,500 new containers in China
Taipei
Investments totaling $358.9 million
Memorandum of Understanding for the Launch of Drone Use in the Port of Palermo
Palermo
Submission of the request for the establishment of U-Space
Yesterday, the Strait of Hormuz was crossed by 42 commercial vessels
Paris
For the first time since the beginning of the conflict, several LNG tankers entered the Persian Gulf
Saipem wins new $1 billion offshore contract in Angola
Milan
It was awarded by Azule Energy for the Greater PAJ project
Port of Ancona: Dredging work has begun on the seabed of quay 22.
Ancona
Approximately six thousand cubic meters of sediment will be removed
Confitarma welcomes clarifications regarding ship waste collection management.
Rome
The need for uniform application of the legislation throughout the country was highlighted.
The Tuscan Cooperation Development Fund invests in Uniport Livorno.
Livorno
Operation for a total of 880 thousand euros carried out together with co-investor Coopfond
Fit-Cisl, recognizing dock work as arduous is a priority
Genoa
Pagnotta: This is not a corporate claim, but a question of social justice.
Hupac increases weekly rotations between Antwerp and Busto Arsizio via France to four.
Noise
Two additional departures of the intermodal service introduced
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Arrival ports by:
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- country
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From July, the tariff for naval transit through the Turkish Straits will increase by +14.9%.
Istanbul
It will be raised to $6.70 per net tonne
Fincantieri and Republikorp sign agreement to build multipurpose naval vessels in Indonesia.
Paris
The establishment of a joint venture is planned
Study on the divergences between the EU Ship Recycling Regulation and the Hong Kong Convention
Brussels/London
It has been published by ECSA and ICS
The 2026-2028 POT of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Sea Port Authority has been approved.
Gioia Tauro
Approval also granted to the 2026 budget forecast variation and to the update of the Port's Staffing Plan.
Autonomous Navigation: ABS, Polaris Shipping, HHI, and AVIKUS Sign Agreement
Athens
It will be tested on a VLOC under certain low-risk conditions
Tomorrow in Sant'Agnello (Naples) the inauguration event of the Italy Branch of The Nautical Institute
London
The topics of discussion will include energy transition in the maritime industry, maritime education and training.
The Municipality of Bologna is reconsidering the divestment of its stake in Interporto Bologna.
Bologna/Bentivoglio
An institutional delegation from Flanders visited the interport
Eni and Fincantieri sign agreement to develop innovative underwater monitoring technologies.
Milan/Trieste
Agreement focused on Eni's "Clean Sea" technology
In 2025, LNG consumption in Italy grew by +11% driven by industry and new uses, with the debut in the naval segment
Rome
Amadei (Federchimica LNG Group): Use ETS and FuelEU revenues to support investments and deployment of lower-carbon fuels.
RT&L partners with China's Guangzhou Salvage to strengthen its project cargo segment
Genoa
Bizzarri: the sector is characterised by wide margins for development and profitability
Last year, cargo traffic in Greek ports amounted to 140.8 million tons (-1.5%)
Piraeus
Goods volumes remained unchanged in the fourth quarter only
The International Container Study Center's board and governing body have been renewed.
Genoa
Filippo Gallo confirmed as president and Paolo Pessina as vice-president
Catani (GNV): allocate ETS proceeds to the development of synthetic fuel production chains.
Rome
Resources - he specified - also for port infrastructures and the reduction of the cost differential compared to traditional fuels
Consultation launched on plans to expand the port areas of Fos
Marseille
The goal is to involve residents and local stakeholders
Somec signs €60 million contract with Finnish shipyard
San Vendemiano
One of the most complex interventions ever entrusted to the Horizons division
Daniele Rossi, former president of the port of Ravenna, has passed away.
Rome
He led the port authority for over eight years
ONE will remove calls in Greece and Türkiye from its Adriatic Service 1 service.
Singapore
In Italy it touches the ports of Venice and Ancona
The first phase of the APM Terminals terminal in the port of Suape has been inaugurated.
Suape
It will become operational in the second half of this year
Container traffic increased in May at the ports of Singapore and Hong Kong
Singapore/Hong Kong
Singapore sets record bunkering levels for liquefied natural gas and pure B100 biodiesel
Vavassori confirmed as president of the Lombardy Association of Freight Forwarders and Haulers
Milan
Albertina Schiavoni and Mario Zini have been appointed vice-presidents
The president of Angopi receives the first professional certificate of competence as a mooring man.
Savona
The certificate must be renewed every five years.
Fincantieri has delivered the new cruise ship Mein Schiff Flow to TUI Cruises.
Hamburg/Monfalcone
With a gross tonnage of approximately 160,000 tons, it has a capacity of approximately 4,000 passengers.
In the first three months of 2026, freight traffic in the port of Palermo decreased by -6.3%
Palermo
Traffic also decreased in the ports of Termini Imerese, Trapani, and Licata. Increases occurred in Porto Empedocle and Gela.
The Antitrust Authority has not given its final approval for the acquisition of Armas' assets and activities by Baleària.
Barcelona
Set a series of conditions
Assarmatori's annual assembly will take place in Rome on Tuesday.
Rome
The event's theme is "Instructions for not navigating in the dark."
VARD to build a new generation fishing vessel
Trieste
It was ordered by the Norwegian company Rosund Drift
Royal Caribbean has taken delivery of its new Legend of the Seas cruise ship.
Miami
Built by Meyer Turku, it can accommodate 5,610 passengers
Concentration in the UK shipbuilding sector
London
Baleana buys APCL Group (A&P Tyne, Cammell Laird and A&P Falmouth and Falmouth Docks and Engineering)
Informal hearings of trade union representatives on port governance reform
Rome
At the heart of the critical issues highlighted - confirms Filt-Cgil - is the planned establishment of Porti d'Italia Spa
Venice, the DPSS confirms the need to build new offshore terminals outside the lagoon.
Venice
The Strategic System Programming Document has been approved by the AdSP Management Committee
The Spinelli Group has joined the Italian Association of Port Terminal Operators
Genoa
The company and Assiterminal expressed satisfaction with the resumption of an important association
In the first three months of 2026, freight traffic at UK ports fell by -2.6%
London
More significant decrease (-6.8%) in boarding loads
Mark Hindley is the new president of the European Motor Vehicle Logistics Association
Istanbul
Wolfgang Göbel was elected honorary president
At the Port of Genoa, a tugboat was stopped for irregularities in nitrogen oxide emissions.
Genoa
The vessel is used for the construction works of the new breakwater
In April, freight traffic in the port of Ravenna grew by +21.4%
Ravenna
An increase of +2.5% is expected in May
Sallaum Lines to launch dedicated China-Europe service in 2027
Nanjing
Two new 7,400 CEU PCTCs taken delivery
On June 12th in Naples, an initiative by Filt Cgil on governance in the port sector
Rome
Naval drone found in Romanian port of Constanta
Bucharest
The device self-destructed without causing any casualties.
HJSC receives approval in principle for the construction of a 10,000 TEU biofuel containership.
Athens
It was released from the Korean Naval Register
Global Ship Lease invests $917 million to purchase ten new container ships
Athens
They will be delivered between the fourth quarter of 2028 and the first quarter of 2030.
PORTS
Italian Ports:
Ancona Genoa Ravenna
Augusta Gioia Tauro Salerno
Bari La Spezia Savona
Brindisi Leghorn Taranto
Cagliari Naples Trapani
Carrara Palermo Trieste
Civitavecchia Piombino Venice
Italian Interports: list World Ports: map
DATABASE
ShipownersShipbuilding and Shiprepairing Yards
ForwardersShip Suppliers
Shipping AgentsTruckers
MEETINGS
The Federagenti assembly will be held in Civitavecchia on July 3rd.
Rome
Pessina: We will not discuss regulations, community relations, or the pursuit of theories and bureaucracy, but rather the challenges of Italian port infrastructure.
Tomorrow in Sant'Agnello (Naples) the inauguration event of the Italy Branch of The Nautical Institute
London
The topics of discussion will include energy transition in the maritime industry, maritime education and training.
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
World's first floating fusion reactor-powered vessel could become reality with new project
(Interesting Engineering)
Shipbuilding's Spring Illusion: Backbone Collapses
(The Chosun Daily)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
WASS (Fincantieri) and Magellan Agreement on Canada's Underwater Defense
Trieste
Industrial cooperation opportunities in the field of heavy torpedoes and countermeasures will be explored
Solutions to overcome the chronic staff shortage in the Italian maritime sector
Procida
Pagano (Maritime Labor Committee): Digitalization, simplification, and cooperation between training and businesses to overcome the crisis
Maritime training agreement signed by Gente di Mare (Cosulich) and Carnival
Genoa
Di Tizio: This collaboration allows us to bring an international project to the territory
Antipollution (V.Group) orders four eco-friendly vessels from ONEX Shipyards & Technologies
Athens
Option for four additional units
Luigi Merlo to lead MSC Cruises' Italian cruise terminal company
Geneva
Centrone (formerly Fincantieri) takes over as Director of Maritime Policies and Government Affairs for the group in Italy
Spinelli has ordered three new handling vehicles from FTMH
Genoa
A reach stacker for empty containers has already entered service in the group's Livorno depot
Greece's Skaramangas Shipyards and South Korea's HD Hyundai sign cooperation agreement
Athens
The aim is to collaborate in the construction of surface military vessels
AD Ports buys the Brazilian Corredor Logística e Infraestrutura
Sao Paulo/Abu Dhabi
The company handles the largest volume of agri-food bulk exports in the South American nation
The 2026-2028 Three-Year Operational Plan of the Northern Tyrrhenian Port Authority has been approved.
Livorno
Unanimous approval from the Management Committee
Chen Lichtenstein appointed president and CEO of ZIM
Haifa
He will replace the resigning Eli Glickman.
Gianluca Croce has been confirmed as president of Assagenti Genova.
Genoa
The members of the association's board for the two-year period 2026-2028
The Mega Serena ferry has joined the Corsica Sardinia Ferries fleet.
Vado Ligure
It has a capacity of up to 2,000 passengers and over 600 vehicles.
The first steel cutting of the Crystal Grace cruise ship took place in Marghera.
Miami
Fincantieri will deliver the vessel in spring 2028
Palumbo Superyacht awarded 13,048 square meters of mooring space to the Port of Ortona.
Ancona
Central Adriatic Port Authority, guidelines for issuing the single ZES authorization
Port of Livorno: Two new FHP MarterNeri warehouses inaugurated
Livorno
Investment exceeding 23 million euros
The Committee of the Central Northern Tyrrhenian Sea Port Authority has decided to close the institution's state of crisis.
Civitavecchia
New solution for exceptional transport on intermodal trains from FS Logistix and Van der Vlist
Verona
Two aerial platforms transported from Verona to Rostock
Port of Naples: Fire aboard GNV's Phoenix ferry
Naples
Flames broke out in the internal areas of deck 6 of the ship
Latrofa has chosen a trusted individual to lead an in-house company within the Lazio Port Authority.
Civitavecchia
The new sole director - he underlined - has been provided with particularly stringent management guidelines
In the first three months of 2026, MPC Container Ships' revenues decreased by -6.4%.
Oslo
Quarterly net income of $40.8 million (-31.8%)
The 2026-2028 Three-Year Operational Plan of the Sardinian Port Authority has been approved.
Olbia
Green light from the Management Committee
The environmental assessment process for the San Antonio Outer Harbor project has been completed.
Saint Anthony
The Viking Mira cruise ship was delivered at the Fincantieri shipyard in Ancona
Ancona/Los Angeles
It has a gross tonnage of 54,300 tons and a capacity of 998 passengers.
In 2025, RINA recorded revenues of over one billion euros (+11%)
Genoa
Net profit up 30%
The new railway bridge has been installed at the Port of Marina di Carrara.
Marina di Carrara
Pisano: A turning point in the port's logistics organization.
Ports, freight terminals, and corridors. Venice and the Upper Adriatic as a gateway to the East.
Venice
This is the theme of the event that will be held on Thursday in Venice
Estonian State Fleet orders electric-powered ferry from Polish shipyard Crist
Tallinn
Contract worth 49.93 million euros
In April, Spanish ports handled 1.7 million containers (+1.7%)
Madrid
Cruise passengers down by -18.4%
Container traffic in the port of Valencia decreased by 2.5% in April
Valencia
In the first four months of 2026, almost 1.8 million TEUs were handled (+0.2%)
Global Ship Lease posts record quarterly revenues again
Athens
Net profit down 24.0%
International cooperation between the Sardinian Port Authority and the Port of Tangier Ville for luxury yachting
Cagliari
Promotion of an integrated nautical circuit between Sardinia and Morocco
The new first aid medical center has been inaugurated in the port of Gioia Tauro
Gioia Tauro
Among the facilities, a first aid clinic and a CMR ambulance
BPER provides financing to Grimaldi Euromed for fleet modernization.
Milan/Naples
Resources used to partially cover the purchase of the ship "Grande Manila"
ASRY and Priya Blue establish ship recycling yard in Bahrain
Al Muharraq/Alang
First ship destined for dismantling has arrived in the Middle Eastern nation
SAAM Towage orders five new tugboats from Turkish shipyard Sanmar Shipyard
Santiago
They will have a pulling capacity of between 70 and 80 tons
Container traffic at the Port of Long Beach dropped 5.7% last month.
Long Beach/Singapore/Hong Kong
In Singapore, growth of +3.6% was recorded, while in Hong Kong containers decreased by -6.3%.
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