In mid-June, Tarros from La Spezia and Ignazio from Genoa Messina & C. will activate the new service called respectively LEX and ELI, which will connect Italy with the Libya and Egypt. The line will be operated with two local vessels with a capacity of 1,150-1,200 TEUs, one for each company, every 12 days or so, and will connect the ports of Salerno, Genoa, La Spezia, Tripoli, Misrata, Alessandria and Benghazi. As part of the same service, carried out as part of the of a vessels sharing agreement, Tarros will scale also the ports of Malta and Augusta as "private calls". In with the opening of this infra-Mediterranean service, in the northbound relationship, Messina will begin to scale the Port of Alexandria with the ships of the Middle-East service, offering a direct stopover for traffic from the regions of India, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.