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May 12, 2011
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- Maritime stations closed in 2010 with a record traffic of 3.6 million passengers
- At the end of the month the tender for the sale of its share of the Port Authority. The region of Sardinia, with Saremar, calls can reach the port of Genoa
 In 2010 the Maritime Station Spa, the company that manages the terminal for passengers and cruise at the port of Genoa, Group profit before tax of € 3.89 million on revenues of € 26.96 million compared to net income before taxes of of € 3.27 million on revenues of € 25.98 million the previous year. The year 2010 was closed with a net profit of EUR 2.2 million and the cash flow has exceeded EUR 6.5 million and investments amounted to EUR 3.7 million.
- This morning was held in the shareholders' meeting of the Maritime Station, which approved the 2010 budget, and was appointed the new board of directors of the company consists of Ferdinando Lolli, Edward Monzani, Lorenzo Cuocolo, Renato Midori, Eugenio Kielland, Mauro Rovida, Fabio Capocaccia, Franco and Massimo Mura Hum.Admiral Ferdinando Lolli, who for several years he was commander of the Port of Genoa and the Ligurian Sea director, was named president and successor to Philip nell'incarico Schiaffino, while the office of Edward Monzani, formerly general manager of society has been transformed into that of managing director.
- At the conclusion of Schiaffino and Monzani presented the results of the company together with the Chairman of the Port Authority of Genoa, Luigi Merlo, and the CEO of Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV), Roberto Martinoli.
- Merlo reiterated the decision of the Port Authority to sell its stake in the Maritime Station at the end of this month or early June - he explained - Finporto, the financial activity of the port company, will release the tender for the sale of the stake which is equal to 34.07% stake (10.22% and 23.85% through the Port Authority Finporto). For its part, has confirmed that Martinoli GNV, which owns 32.01% of the Maritime Station, will exercise its right of first refusal on the sale of stake in the entity port.
- During the meeting have been widely publicized, including traffic data recorded last year. In 2010 the Maritime Station has handled a total of 2,721,574 passenger ferry (-2.8% on 2009) and a record number of 860,290 cruise passengers (+28.1%).The total for 2010 is 3,581,864 representing a new record passenger traffic compared to the previous record set in 2009 with 3,471,724 passengers.
- On the front of the cruise only, last year's landing of the ships of MSC Cruises generated 77% of the traffic handled over 661,000 passengers Maritime stations (+27.7%), followed by Louis Cruise Line with 123,500 passengers (+87.1 %) and Royal Caribbean with approximately 44,000 passengers.
- In the field of car ferries were handled 975,698 (+2.2%), motorcycles, 49,167 (-19.9%) and 1,979,100 meters of rolling stock (-9.6%).
- For 2011 Stations Maritime expects to record a substantial stability of the ferry traffic, with a resumption of commercial traffic (meters), the positive trend - said the company - has already been registered in the first four months of the year. For the cruise traffic is expected to substantial stability of passengers handled compared to 2010: in fact, faced with the anticipation of a further increase in the volume of MSC Crociere - said the company - is projected to decline in volumes due to the positioning Louis Cruise Line of a smaller ship at Genoa compared to 2010.Maritime stations also stressed the importance of the seven airports that will be used this year in Genoa by ship Mariner Of The Seas of Royal Caribbean International, which will bring approximately 32,000 passengers, during which for the first time the U.S. company will carry out operations beginning and end of the cruise, then using Genoa as a port for cruises in the Mediterranean base.
- Monzani pointed out how the cruise industry is showing a positive trend and comforting: the market - noted - is emerging and there were no falls after the explosive growth in recent years. In the area of the ferries, though - Monzani said - a revolution is underway, which includes among other things, the privatization of Tirrenia, the cessation of operations of T-navigation links and intent of the Sardinia Region to enable other lines to the mainland.
- Referring to the latter initiative announced by the Sardinian regional inflation rates as a countermeasure to the ferry, the chairman of the Port Authority Merlo expressed concern "for public intervention in the owner field."For its part, Philip Schiaffino stressed the bankruptcy outcome of the commitment of public authorities in this field, as was the case - said - with T-Link (the company which - remember - is owned by the Sicilian Region through the private equity fund Cape Sicily Region). Martinoli also noted that there is "sudden" shipowners, as demonstrated by recent events emerged in a period that is fraught with difficulties for companies in the industry.
- Monzani confirmed that it had been in contact with we (Sardegna Regionale Marittima), a former subsidiary of Tirrenia passed to Sardinia, possible landing places for ships of the company in the Sardinian port of Genoa. In recent days the President of Sardinia Region, Ugo Cappellacci, announced that it has successfully completed the first stage of the procedure for hiring a ship for connections with the mainland of Sardinia, for which there have been four expressions of interest from primary brokerage firm. "The Saremar - said Cappellacci - is acting within the guidelines set out by the junta. We carry out this initiative with the utmost determination to protect freedom of movement and freedom of enterprise of the Sardinians."It's an experiment - said the president of the regional - which represents an important test for an island that does not want to be seized."
- Edward Monzani explained that he spoke by phone representatives Saremar twenty days ago, then - he said - there were no more contacts. However, the Sardinian regional government seems willing to continue in its decision to activate through Saremar some new marine services to the mainland and then to Genoa, "the procedures for retrieval of vessels, allowing the transport to and from the island - confirmed Regional Councillor for Transport, Christian Solis - is proceeding on schedule and without a hitch, confirming the value of the proposed shared by President Cappellacci and the regional council. "
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