On Saturday, with the docking of the container ship Michigan, it was Inauguration of the operational start-up of the Augsburg container terminal managed by the European Terminal Services (EST) to which it is Moved the business to the container segment previously held in the port of Catania ( of 15 February 2024). The new container terminal in Augsburg is located covers an area of about 86,000 square meters, is equipped with a quay of about 260 linear meters and a draught of -14.5 meters that in some places rises to -16.5. Currently, the terminal is equipped with a 150-tonne Konecranes MHC mobile crane and within at the end of 2024, two more MHCs of the same will be added lifting capacity. The terminal is equipped with An area for reefer containers where there are already 170 plugs that will become 550 by March 15, 2025. The forecourt, In addition, it is equipped with six state-of-the-art stackers and in the Over the next few years, EST plans to invest further in Totally green infrastructures and equipment.

'With a view to a systemic and rationalisation of the ports belonging to the Pozzallo) - recalled Antonio Pandolfo, president and sales & marketing director of EST, on the occasion of the inauguration - the Port System Authority of Eastern Sicily has decided to move container traffic from the port of Catania to the port of Augusta, specializing Catania for cruise traffic, Ro-Ro, Pax and Ro-Ro. In Augsburg we have ample space available, in an advantageous position in the Mediterranean and in connection with the with the motorway system that allows us not to interfering with city traffic. We plan to open new services and to intercept connections that currently they serve the ports of the Adriatic. We are very proud to The inauguration of the new terminal opens a new season for EST and its development activities'.