Today, the Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, Osama Rabie, met via videoconference with the top management of the Genoese shipping company Ignazio Messina & C. appreciating the growing number of vessels of the Italian carrier crossing the Suez Canal, despite the ongoing challenges in the Red Sea region, to the Administrator delegate Ignazio Messina, Vice-President Stefano Messina and CEO Ibrahim Taha and Mohamed Koptan, Chairman and CEO of the Ocean Express Shipping Co., the shipping agency representing the Messina group in Egypt.

Ignazio Messina expressed the company's will to expand cooperation and coordination with Suez Canal Authority in the field of logistics services by strengthening the location of the Suez Canal and supporting its transformation into a Regional Centre for the Provision of Maritime and Logistics Services in the Middle East and Africa. Messina confirmed that the company intends to increase its traffic through the Suez Canal as part of the group's policy to expand its operations and bring in container ships on routes to the Middle East and Africa.