The Swiss shipping and logistics group Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) presented together with the Livorno Brothers Neri e Lorenzini & C. an expression of interest in the Darsena Europa, the new port platform designed in the port Livorno to initially handle container traffic and in a second phase also ro-pax traffic. The interest shown by the Geneva group and the two historic Livorno companies was welcomed with satisfaction by the Chairman of the Authority of Port System of the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Luciano Guerrieri, an interest - he underlined - that "confirms the growing appeal of the port of Livorno and, in particular, of the Darsena Europa project, capable of attracting a new and qualified consent".

"We are pleased - added Guerrieri - of the interest that such qualified subjects have shown that they have for a long time a project that, we are sure, will open up new perspectives of development not only for the port but for the whole territory. The letter also confirms the goodness of the work of the Port Authority and of the entire commissioner structure, whose work has been carried out to date It was commendable. In the coming days - announced the President of the Port Authority - We will meet the group for talk in detail about the project, but it goes without saying that the letter received spurs us to accelerate even more on the implementation of public works". In this regard, Guerrieri announced that "in the coming days we will approve the executive project delivered to us at the end of the year by the entrusted RTI: The goal is to start public works by first quarter of 2025".

With the expression of interest, the MSC group, leader global container shipping segment for fleet capacity, confirms the intention to manage further terminal activities in the port of Livorno, where is already present through container control terminal of Lorenzini & C., the intention that the group had already highlighted with the purpose, placed under the lens of of the Italian Competition Authority and then abandoned to manage the Darsena Toscana Terminal, a terminal that is He then became part of the shipping group's network Neapolitan Grimaldi ( of 1 August 2023 and 31 January 2024).