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The Antitrust exhorts see again the norms on the harbour concessions and to remove the restrictions to the self-handler
Sent a signalling to the government
March 23, 2021

The Guarantor Authority of the Competition and the Market, in a today's signalling to the government, has formulated various proposals of competitive reform, between which some for the harbour field. In particular, the Antitrust, evidencing the uncertainty regime that characterizes the modalities of confidence of the harbour concessions, has emphasized the necessity of "an participation in via norm to the aim reaching a modality of allocation of the harbour concessions that you limit the current excessive discrezionalità of the competent authorities with respect to the release modalities/I renew of the concessions and that it guarantees the participants on the respect of the communitarian principles of transparency, publicity and not discrimination".

Moreover the AGCM has found the necessity to strengthen "the instrument of the revocation of the concessions where the affidatari does not respect the conditions defined in the confidence contract, to the aim to stimulate the efficiency of the concessionaires and to increase the contendibilità of the assets". The Authority therefore has wished "a reformulation of art. the 18 of the law 28 January 1994, n. 84, in the sense to characterize sure, clear, transparent and not discriminatory criteria for the release of the harbour state property concessions, let alone for the definition of their duration and the modalities of revocation".

Moreover the AGCM has proposed, "in an optical of development and increase of the harbour field, than codicil 7 of art. the 18, of the 28 law January 1994, n. 84 are reformulated, previewing an application of the cumulus prohibition of concessions for the same activity only for the ports of reduced dimensions, to whose inside is easier that situations of being able of market are created, and/or for those types of activities that preview limited competitive dynamics to the single port".

The Antitrust is taken part also with respect to the limitations to the activity of self-handler in the harbour operations, remembering to have "recently had a chance for represent that the introduction of cited codicil 4 second - in so far as previews that the activity of self-handler of the operations and of the harbour services it can be carried out single in case in which not is the necessary equipments or work force in the berthing port - the possibility for the marine carriers reduces drastically to resort to the self-handler of the harbour operations (that it becomes merely residuale hypothesis)". Specifying that the exhortation has the aim to value the exercisable competitive tie from the self-handler, the AGCM therefore has proposed "the abrogation of the norm of which to codicil 4 second of art. the 16 of the law 28 January 1994, n. 84, waves to strengthen competitive dynamics and of market in the exercise of the harbour activities, to the aim to increase the attrattività, also international, of the harbour section in Italy".

Within some considerations turned last November to the members of the parliament and the government in merit to some competitive criticalities deriving from the modifications brought to article 16 of law 84/94, the AGCM had found moreover that "the disposition of which to the codicil 4-second of article 16 of the cited law n. 84/1994, for a back, alter the competition between Italian ports and ports of other Member States, discriminating first where it is not more possible to carry out in self-handler the harbour activities and, for other back, it is set in opened contrast with the purpose of the norm of I throw again of the harbour field. There the Italian ports, in fact, could be penalized from the choice of the marine carriers not to call you, not being able to carry out the harbour operations in self-handler, with consequent reduction to cascade also of the induced returns of the relative ones".


Guarantor authority of the Competition and the Market

SIGNALLING
according to the articles. 21 and 22 of 10 the law October 1990, n. 287

with respect to:

Proposals of competitive reform,
to the aims of the Law Anniversary for the Market and the Competition
year 2021

correspondent to
Prime Minister of the Ministers


Participations proposed in matter of:

B. Infrastructures and harbour activity
The increment of the competitiveness of national the harbour system is a strategic factor for the increase of the Country. The intercontinental commerce by sea has seen during the last few years, the development of a number limited of great shipowning enterprises and the phenomenon of the so-called naval gigantism, that is the tendency of the naval companies much to equip of fleets composed of ships door-container with particularly elevated abilities and dimensions. This has demanded (and still demands) the adaptation of infrastructures of our ports and the necessity that some of they assume the harbour connotation of hub for the development of the activity of transhipment. Moreover, the specialization of the marine commerce on container vessels of great dimensions, involving a discouragement of the navigation costs, stretches to from one another aggravate the competition between ports situated also to hundred of kilometers, rewarding that best equipped and with inferior harbour costs34. The tendency assumes relief also, on a global scale, to a progressive vertical integration of the great enterprises of navigation in harbour infrastructures, as testified, on a national level, also from some recent operations notified to Authority35.
In such perspective, a greater competitiveness of the ports of the Country regarding those of the bordering Countries will be able to allow to intercept always greater quotas traffic - it is of type hinterland is of type transhipment. Moreover, the increase of the main national ports of call will also allow to value at best the important infrastructural investments faces to supply adequate logistic support to the retroportuali activities (railway connections, highway centers of logistic exchange, connections, etc). In the delineated context, the realization of investments you turn to increase the competitiveness of the national ports of call, above all in terms of attainment of adapted levels of efficiency of infrastructures, and the processes of dynamic competition can turn out limited from some enforced norms and/or regulations partially. Therefore, the Authority considers an participation of the legislators necessary on the normative aspects in the continuation described.

General participations in matter of harbour concessions
The current procedure for the allocation of the marine state property concessions in harbour within is that previewed from art. the 37 of the Navigation code and from art. the 18 of its regulations of performance (d.P.R n. 328/1952). Art. the 37 of the Navigation code establish that, in the hypothesis in which more questions reach the Authority premail (the Authorities of Harbour System) than concession in relation to a same good of the marine Federal property, the petitioner must be favorite whom "she offers put up guarantees of profitable use of the concession and she is proposed to make use of this for a use that, to judgment of the administration, answers to a more important public interest". In this normative context a lot going back, in 1994, has joined art. the 18 of the law 28 January 1994 n. 8436, bringing "I reorder of the legislation in harbour matter", than to codicil 1 it previews that the Authority premail entrusts in concession the state property areas and the docks comprised in the harbour within to the enterprises that are authorized to the accomplishment of the harbour operations, sending back, to a next one decree ministerial the definition of adapted criteria in order to establish the forms of publicity for the procedures of confidence of the concessions, the choice of the concessionaire, the duration of the concessions, the powers of vigilance and control of the conceding authorities, the modalities of renew of the concession that is cession of the systems to new concessionaire, i limits minimums of the canons to pour and the criteria for the release of the concessions.
The competent Ministry, in three distinguished occasions has managed a rough draft of Decrees implementing of art. the 18, codicil 1, of the law n. 84/1994; in all and the three cases the Council of State has returned an own opinion on the outline of provision37; however, as also evidenced from the Authority in the 201838, this I decree never is not approved of and this has caused in the years a regime of uncertainty with reference to the modalities of confidence of concessions39.
In the last occasion in which it has had to express itself on a rough draft of I decree implementing, the Council of State, not sharing the solutions proposed in the provision outline (that they were still rigidly aligned to former procedures art. 37 of the implementing regulations and Navigation code its), has declared that “cannot be accepted that all the procedure continuous to take the movements from the request of the same interested subject to the release of the state property concession (or to I renew of the same one, as is the typical case), granting to the other subjects only the possibility, in a term that can to go from thirty to ninety days, to introduce observations or eventual concurrent questions […] He does not turn out, that is, acceptable that, instead favouring the new national strategic lines of planning and programming of the role of the single ports, more not considered entity to himself, the procedure of allocation of the concession of the area or the single dock moves exclusively from the request of the interested one, without a programming action that it leads then in a ban and one, even though upstream peculiar, procedure of contest to public evidence for the concession of the good, where the strategic appraisal is not moved at the next moment of the verification of coherence of the request introduced for the concessions longer duration, and of the eventual concurrent requests, with the action of national planning.40. To this position of the Council of State in advisory center then ART) 42 have joined to the participations of the Ministry of Infrastructures andthe Transports41 and the Authority of Regulation of the Transports (, that they go in the direction to increase the efficiency, the transparency and not the discriminatorietà of the procedures.
All this considered, 1 ' Authority considers an participation in via norm to the aim reaching a modality of allocation of the harbour concessions necessary that you limit the current excessive discrezionalità of the competent authorities with respect to the release modalities/I renew of the concessions and that it guarantees the participants on the respect of the communitarian principles of transparency, publicity and not discrimination43.
Also in the knowledge of the specificities that characterize the harbour field - than they do not allow an easy and immediate transposition of the procedures of selection previewed from the Code of contracts publics for the confidence of the harbour concessions - is considered in any case necessary to preview forms of confidence that they allow, in the respect of the field best practice, to the Authorities of Harbour System, in quality of appointed subjects to characterize the requirements of development of the harbour areas, to put in competition between they concurrent questions to the development of determined state property areas and assets and to estimate them on the base of parameters technical, economic and financial objective and conoscibili former before. At the same time, one considers that it would go strengthened the instrument of the revocation of the concessions where the affidatari do not respect the conditions defined in the confidence contract, to the aim to stimulate the efficiency of the concessionaires and to increase the contendibilità of the assets.



The Authority wishes a reformulation of art. the 18 of the law 28 January 1994, n. 84, in the sense to characterize sure, clear, transparent and not discriminatory criteria for the release of the harbour state property concessions, let alone for the definition of their duration and the modalities of revocation.

In coherence with the demand to preview more competitive criteria for the process of confidence of the harbour concessions in state property within, an participation is considered opportune on art. the 18, codicil 7, of the law n. 84/1994. The norm - that it inside establishes that a same subject cannot be to title of two or more state property concessions concerning the same type of economic activity of same port44 - was born with antitrust purposes in a market context (than today it appears exceeded in various cases) in which every port it represented a distinguished important market. In such context, it was considered necessary to prohibit the cumulus more concessions in head to the same subject to the aim to contrast situations of being able of excessive market that could turn out harmful for the harbour user.
The continuous evolution of the harbour field has changed - in particular for some activities that are carried out in the ports of call of greater dimension, as for example the terminal services container45 - the competitive perimeter in which the harbour operators are confronted, that they must be more and more efficient and adequate to the characteristics of the represented question, side sea, from the total shipowning large groups and, side earth, from the shippers, the marine agencies and the operators of logistics on earth. In the activity consisting in intercepting the great flows of the total commerce, can be between they sostituibili situated ports also to remarkable, advanced distances to the 200-300 km46.
In this context, at least for the national ports of greater dimension47, the current normative prohibition of which to art. the 18, codicil 7 of law 84/1994 can represent an obstacle to the development and to the competition with the ports of other bordering countries that they appear on the Mediterranean, as well as to limit the possibility to realize projects of increase of the operators, faces to the attainment of economies of scale, propedeutica to I confront with more and more large and globalizzati operators of the transport.
At the same time, the grandmother of which to art. the 18 codicil 7 could more conserve own antitrust function in ports reduced dimensions and with reference to activities carried out on state property assets in concession that still conserve a limited competitive dimension to the single port (thinks to the fuel distribution for the yachting or, in some contexts many little ones, to the bunker for the ships).



The Authority proposes, in an optical of development and increase of the harbour field, than codicil 7 of art. the 18, of the 28 law January 1994, n. 84 are reformulated, previewing an application of the cumulus prohibition of concessions for the same activity only for the ports of reduced dimensions, to whose inside is easier that situations of being able of market are created, and/or for those types of activities that preview limited competitive dynamics to the single port.


Limitations to the activity of self-handler in the harbour operations
An other issue of relief in the harbour, susceptible field of impattare on the competitiveness of the same one, is relative to the recent limitations to the activity of self-handler deriving from the adoption of codicil 4 second to art. the 16 of the law 28 January 1994, n. 84, introduced from art. the 199 second of the d.l. 19 May 2020, n. 34, as converted with law 17 July 2020, n. 77, bringing: “Urgent measures in matter of health, support to the job and the economy, let alone of connected social policies to the epidemiologica emergency from COVID-19”. With regard to the Authority it has recently had a chance for represent that the introduction of cited codicil 4 second - in so far as previews that the activity of self-handler of the operations and of the harbour services it can be carried out single in case in which not is the necessary equipments or work force in the berthing port - the possibility for the marine carriers reduces drastically to resort to the self-handler of the harbour operations (that it becomes merely residuale hypothesis) 48. Moreover, the resource to the self-handler is subordinated to the possession of which requisitioned launches, between which the availability of suitable staff of the marine, additional carrier regarding the organic one of the table of safety and exercise of the ship, let alone dedicated exclusively to the development of such operations. To warning of the Authority, the resource to the car-production can be an element important in order to contain the eventual one to be able of market of the harbour companies and to stimulate the efficiency in the supply of the harbour services. There moreover, the norm in question appears susceptible to reduce the competitiveness of the Italian ports regarding the bordering ports of other Member States, being able to penalize the harbour field whereby affects the choice of the marine carriers not to berth in the Italian ports, not being able to carry out in self-handler the harbour operations.



The Authority, to the aim to value the exercisable competitive tie from the self-handler, proposes the abrogation of the norm of which to codicil 4 second of art. the 16 of the law 28 January 1994, n. 84, waves to strengthen competitive dynamics and of market in the exercise of the harbour activities, to the aim to increase the attrattività, also international, of the harbour section in Italy.


34 “Until a recent past, the choice of the port by the user (shipping, operating harbour and shippers) depended in prevalence from the geographic factor. The general improvement of retroportuali infrastructures [...] has progressively reduced the importance of the localizzativo factor respect to other characteristics [...]. The current competition sees identified ports for basin of infuence [N.d.r catchment area], less and less determined from the vicinity or geographic proximity, while I assume greater importance other making factors head to the inspired economic paradigm to the concept of chain of the value”. It is seen, Authority of Regulation of the Transports - AIR Relation, attached to the deliberation n. 40/2017.

35 Cfr. provv. C12225- Terminal Investment Ltd/CSG Italy-Gate on July 17, 2019, in Boll. 31/2019 and provv. C12255 - Marinvest-Group Messina Ignazio Messina & C. - Ro-Ro Italy on September 25, 2019, in Boll. 42/2019

36 The law n. 84/1994 recently are interested by a deep review, arranged to the necessity to verify some interpretative parameters to important valley actions and sentences of matrix EU. In particular, the law 28 January 1994, n. 84, have been object of reform to means of the d.lgs. 4 August 2016, n. 169, and, last, of the d.lgs. 13 Decembers 2017, n. 232. Main objective of the been necessary normative participations during the last few years has been the overcoming of the operating fragmentation of national the harbour system: this to the aim to increase to the efficiency and competitiveness of c.d the national system-sea in order to adapt to international the dynamic new of the commerce and marine circuits, developing is the activities inside of the state property areas that those afferent ones to the ports, in particular the logistic row. In the specific one, the operating reorganization has previewed the passage from 24 competent Harbour Authorities on 43 ports to 15 Authorities of Harbour System (ASP). In this perspective, new ASP represent strategic Decision-Making Centers, in a position to operating on a national basis in an integrated system and, for how much more it interests here, they turn out to be the directly competent agencies to the consent of concessions in harbour within.

37 Cfr. the Opinions n. 95/1998 n. 20/2001 and, last, n. 1505/2016.

38 Cfr. Signalling AS1550- Competitive concessions and criticalities on December 12, 2018, in Boll. 48/2018.

39 Cfr. Signalling AS1457 - Release marine state property concession in the port of Livorno for Multipurpose Terminal, 8 November 2017, in Boll. 49/2017 in which one asserted that “[...] in all the cases of competition of questions of marine concession state property, [...] the Authority premails would have - before to start the comparazione procedure - to establish and to be profitable you notice the technical and economic criteria (with indication of the relative score) of award on whose base to proceed according to the appraisal of art. the 37 of the Navigation code, assigning to the parts a consistent term for the warehouse of all the documentation according to the art.18 of the law n. 84/94”; Signalling is also seen AS1235 - Harbour authority of Genoa. Procedure of allocation 28, dry docks October 2015, in Boll. 45/2015.

40 Cfr. Advisory Section, Council of State for the normative actions, to seem n. 1505/2016.

41 MIT, harbour Concessions of marine state property areas and docks in the ports center of Authority of harbour system, DGVPTM/DIV.2/PS, 5 February 2018. In the Ministry Circular it is made specifically anticipates that the appraisal of the best one offered in case than concurrent requests goes carried out by the competent authority on the base of some predetermined parameters of appraisal, faces in the first instance to stimulate a efficient organicity of the development of portualità and logistics.

42 Cfr. Deliberation n. 57/2018 on May 30, 2018, “Approval of methodologies and criteria in order to guarantee the fair and not discriminatory access to harbour infrastructures. First measures of regulation”. Such deliberation, than is shown in coherent continuity with the recommendations expressed from the Council of State about the necessity to recognize an active role to all the subjects eventually interested from the concession procedure, has supplied to define the modalities of allocation of the concessions in the better way answering to criteria than efficiency, transparency and not discrimination of the procedures.

43 With regard to the cited one to seem of the Council of State n. 1505/2016 are clear in asserting that also in the cases of concession of state property assets (or however in the cases explicitly excluded by the within of the Code of Contracts Publics) “, cannot, parimenti, than to already recall the principles in more occasions expressed from the jurisprudence of this second, Council of State which the principles of communitarian derivation to protection of the competition (impartiality, transparency, parity of treatment, discrimination) are not applicable also to the concessions of assets publics, acting as parameter of interpretation and limitation of the insistence right. Communitarian indifference to the nomen of the fattispecie, and therefore to its internal requalification in pubblicistici or privatistici terms, does so as that the sottoposizione to the evidence principles finds its sufficient foundation in the circumstance that with the concession of marine state property area is supplied an occasion of gain to operating subjects on the market, such to last impose a competitive procedure inspired to the remembered principles of transparency and not discrimination (, Cons. Is been, YOU, 7 March 2016, n. 889)”.

44 Cfr. art. 18, codicil 7, law n. 84/1994

45 The terminal services container are distributed by the c.d terminalisti, enterprises that have in concession harbour areas or docks in order to carry out the operations of cargo, drainage, transfer, warehouse and cargo handling object of the transport on ship. It is seen, Authority of Regulation of the Transports - Analysis of Impact of the Regulation, attached to the deliberation n. 40/2017, having to object “Methodologies and criteria in order to guarantee the fair and not discriminatory access to harbour infrastructures”.

46 Cfr. C12225Terminal Investment Ltd/CSM Italy-Gate, in Boll. 31/2019, where the consolidated praxis of the EU commission and the Authority becomes clear that “Under the geographic, second profile, the geographic important market of the handling services goods through container is determined based on the so-called ‘areas of attrattività '' or catchment area’, each of which it represents the within that the terminal container generally servants”.

47 There are several modalities in order to distinguish the ports on the base of their dimension. On the data base Assoporti it is possible for example to characterize the 15 national ports that in the 2018 have enlivened about i175% of the total of the goods (liquid bulk, solid bulk, container, Ro/Ro, other goods). Draft of the ports of Trieste, Genoa, Livorno, Cagliari Sarroch, Gioia Tauro, Ravenna, Venice, Messina-Milazzo, Augusta, Naples, Taranto, La Spezia, Savona-Go, Salerno, Ancona-Falconara.

48 Signalling AS1708- I decree I throw again - art. the 16 modifications to codicil 4-second of law 84/1994 in harbour matter, on October 27, 2020, in Boll. 45/2020.
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Global Maritime Forum report on optimising ship calls to reduce emissions
Copenhagen
Virtual arrival and just-in-time arrival approaches proposed
In the first quarter of this year, container traffic in the port of Gioia Tauro grew by +15.5%
Joy Taurus
Construction of the "Dockworker’s House" has begun
GNV has taken delivery of the second of four new ro-pax vessels in China
Genoa
"GNV Orion" will be able to accommodate 1,700 passengers and transport up to 3,080 linear metres of cargo
After ten quarters of decline, container traffic in the port of Hong Kong returns to growth
Hong Kong
In the first three months of this year 3.39 million TEUs were handled (+2.1%)
Fincantieri acquires stake in WSense
Rome
The ninth FREMM unit "Spartaco Schergat" delivered to the Italian Navy
The new edition of the Practical Manual of Maritime Traffic has been presented
Genoa
Written by Assagenti, it turns fifty
Container traffic at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles increased by 26.6% and 5.2% in the first quarter
Long Beach/Los Angeles
Trump's tariffs impact imminent
In the first three months of 2025, the port of Singapore handled 10.5 million containers (+5.8%)
Singapore
In weight, containerized traffic recorded a decrease of -1.4%
Regulations signed for LNG bunkering at Fincantieri shipyard in Genoa
Genoa
Define the methods of transferring fuel from ship to ship
Historic shipbuilding brands Uljanik and 3.Maj on the verge of extinction
Zagreb
The State confirms its intention to sell the shipbuilding activities at the two sites of Pula and Rijeka
Cambiaso Risso has completed the acquisition of the French Somecassur
Genoa
The transalpine company specializes in the insurance of super and mega yachts
New weekly train service between the port of Gioia Tauro and Verona
Joy Taurus/Verona
Operated by Medlog for the transport of refrigerated goods
EBRD looking for strategic partner for development of Moldovan river port of Giurgiulesti
London
International competition launched
SAILING LIST
Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
Turkish ports set new first-quarter cargo traffic record
Ankara
Historic peak of cargo imported from abroad
In the first quarter of 2025, freight traffic in the port of Taranto grew by +37.6%
Taranto
Increase of 854 thousand tons of solid bulk and 265 thousand tons of conventional goods
DEME buys Havfram, a company that installs offshore wind farms
Second Right/Washington
Transaction worth approximately 900 million euros
Rail transport of convoys for Rome Metro started from Reggio Calabria
Rome
Contract awarded by Hitachi Rail to Mercitalia Rail
In 2024, the volumes handled by Magli Intermodal Service decreased by -2%
Rezzato
Turnover stable
Yang Ming records first decline in turnover in March after 14 months of growth
Keelung/Taipei
Evergreen and WHL revenue growth continues
The European Commission has approved the acquisition of Germany's Schenker by Denmark's DSV
Brussels
The impact on competition in the markets in which the two companies operate is considered limited
Fincantieri - Kayo Agreement to Promote the Development of the Shipbuilding and Naval Industry in Albania
Trieste
Possible creation of a hub for shipbuilding and refitting in the region
Recent slight reduction in logistics costs for new factory vehicles
Brussels
Montaresi (AdSP Liguria Orientale) awarded with the "Port Oscar"
Miami
The event has reached its eighteenth edition
In the first three months of 2025, containers carried by OOCL vessels increased by +9.3%
Hong Kong
Revenues up +16.8%
The AdSP of the Southern Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas wins in appeal against Zen Yacht
Joy Taurus
Company ordered to pay back rent
A large shipment of cocaine was seized in the port of Livorno
Leghorn
Two tons of drugs identified by Customs and Financial Police personnel
Navantia renews agreement with American cruise group Royal Caribbean
Miami
To date, the Cadiz shipyard has carried out maintenance, repair and refurbishment work on 45 of the group's ships.
Record cruise traffic expected in Italian ports this year
Miami
Cemar believes that growth will not stop even in 2026
HII-HHI Agreement to Accelerate US and South Korean Naval Production
National Harbor
The aim is to strengthen the naval industrial base of the two nations.
Panama Ports Company Accused of Violating Terms of Concession Agreement
Panama
Panama's Auditor General announced the filing of criminal charges
Colombo West International Terminal has become operational
Ahmedabad
It has a traffic capacity of 3.2 million TEUs
The conference "New sustainable marine fuels - Decarbonize Shipping" will be held in Genoa on Monday
Genoa
The new multifunctional border control structure PCF - PED/PDI Point completed in the port of Gioia Tauro
Joy Taurus
"Artificial Intelligence Comes to Port" Conference in Rome on Friday
Rome
It is promoted by the National Union of Port Enterprises
MSC Group's new cruise terminal inaugurated in Miami
Miami
It can accommodate three large ships at the same time
In February, traffic in the port of Ravenna increased by +2.1%
Ravenna
Bulk cargo increases, miscellaneous cargo declines
In 2024, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane recorded a net loss of -208 million euros
Rome
Revenues up by +11.7%. The group's freight transported increased thanks to the acquisition of Exploris
Port of Genoa, Ente Bacini requests new spaces and renewal of the concession
Genoa
Conference to celebrate the centenary of the company
The public meeting of the Italian Port Terminal Operators Association will be held in Rome on June 19th
Genoa
VARD to build offshore dive vessel for Dong Fang Offshore
Alesund/Trieste
The contract is worth 113.5 million euros
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 conference "New sustainable marine fuels - Decarbonize Shipping" will be held in Genoa on Monday
Genoa
It will take place at the headquarters of the Port Authority of Genoa
"Artificial Intelligence Comes to Port" Conference in Rome on Friday
Rome
It is promoted by the National Union of Port Enterprises
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Proposed 30% increase for port tariffs to be in phases, says Loke
(Free Malaysia Today)
Damen Mangalia Unionists Protest Friday Against Possible Closure
(The Romania Journal)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Relazione del presidente Nicola Zaccheo
Roma, 18 settembre 2024
››› File
Next week Italian ports will participate in Seatrade Cruise Global
Rome
Initiative brand: "CruiseItaly - One Country, Many Destinations"
MSC Group Cruise Terminal Officially Inaugurated in the Port of Barcelona
Barcelona
In 2027 it will be equipped with a cold ironing plant
Marcegaglia and Nova Marine Carriers form NovaMar Logistic joint venture
Lugano/Gazoldo of the Ippoliti
A general cargo ship will transport raw materials to the steel group's plants
Liebherr achieves record annual sales in the maritime and port crane segment
Bulls
Strong demand for offshore and container handling equipment
The annual conference "Programming, Operation and Management of Transport Networks" in Genoa
Genoa
It is dedicated to the transport and mobility sector
Last year, 656 ships underwent repair work in Greece
Piraeus
Increase of five units compared to 2023
Port of La Spezia, cruise ship docking simulations completed at Garibaldi West pier
The Spice
Assagenti conference on the future of the profession of maritime agent and broker
Genoa
It will be held tomorrow in Genoa
Stena Line presents a project for a ro-ro vessel capable of reducing energy consumption by at least 20%
Gothenburg
Introduced most of the innovative technologies currently available
Francesco Beltrano is the new general secretary of Uniport
Rome
He takes over from Paolo Ferrandino, who will continue to collaborate as a consultant
Saipem awarded new contracts in Middle East and Guyana
Milan
The total value of the orders is approximately 720 million dollars.
Conference in Genoa for the centenary of Ente Bacini
Genoa
The company was established on 19 February 1925
Interporto Bologna Board of Directors Renewed
Bentivoglio
Stefano Caliandro Appointed President. Loss of 1.7 million euros in 2024
NYK invests 76 billion yen in NYK Energy Ocean Corporation
Tokyo
The newco has taken over the activities of ENEOS Ocean
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