The GEDI publishing group has made official the outcome of the negotiations with the Mediterranean Shipping Company announcing that a preliminary agreement has been reached for the sale of the Genoese newspaper "Il Secolo XIX" to a a wholly-owned subsidiary of the MSC Group. GEDI has specified that the parties will now enter into exclusive negotiations to enable due diligence to be carried out and, in parallel, will proceed with the preparation and discussion of the documents that will govern the transaction. In addition, the group Editorial specified that the transaction also includes the activities of digital and advertising revenues relating to the "Secolo XIX", as well as four related newspapers such as "The MediTelegraph", "The Maritime Warning", "The Giornale del Ponente Ligure" and "TTM - Technologies Sea Transport".

The initiative of the MSC group, which has one of its own nerve centres, where in 2015 he inaugurated the "MSC Towers" ( of 16 April 2015), is similar to the one conducted recently in the motherland by the CMA CGM shipping group of Marseille which recently acquired the French newspapers "La Provence", "Corse Matin" and "La Tribune" and the group publishing and telecommunications company Altice France ( of 26 May 2023 and 18 March 2024).