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The Terminal Operations Conference & Exhibition
TOC 99

Genova
1-3 June 1999

TRANSHIPMENT
VS
DIRECT PORTS

NICOLAS SARTINI
Vice President
East West Trades
CMA / CGM



TRANSHIPMENT VERSUS DIRECT PORTS

To illustrate this topic, I will focus on the Asia / Med trade.

It is the major trade where the Med is concerned and it is also one where CMA is deeply involved.

Although speakers are strictly forbidden to advertize too openly about their own companies, I cannot resist mentionning that CMA is the leading carrier from Asia into the Med and that CMA is also the carrier offering the most comprehensive coverage with its own operated vessels in the Med. Not less than 36 ports are served directly including some fascinating places like Misurata in Lybia or Poti in Georgia.

The Med is a very interesting battlefield to study as the options available for liner operators to serve this market are numerous.

This is linked to geography, Med is a transit area between Asia and North Europe, this route being one of the dominant worldwide trades.
Many large vessels are exiting Suez Canal are proceeding to either North Europe or US East Coast via the Med. Coasts are close and it is tempting to make a stop-over at luring ports.

Looking at the patterns of services, it appears that Med from Asia can be served in 5 different ways:

  • classical end-to-end service calling directly at West Med ports
  • integration in a pendulum service linking Asia and US East Coast with direct calls
  • wayport en route to North Europe with direct calls in West Med
  • wayport via Hub port en route to US East Coast
  • wayport via Hub port en route to North Europe

All configurations exist and some operators are even making complex combinations between the various options in order to offer the best possible service package.

What is extremely interesting in particular is that the two major liner operators in this World are radically adopting opposed strategies.

I am refering to Maersk on the one hand and to Evergreen on the other hand.

Maersk strategy has been to develop the utilization of mega hub ports namely Algeciras and Gioia Tauro in which it has demonstrated its long term commitments by making investments.

These Terminals are then served by their mammoth vessels of 6000 teus operating on trunk lines, sometimes called conveyors.

West Med ports are snubbed by these vessels and get served by either feeder vessels or liner vessels of more modest dimensions.

On the contrary, Evergreen is faithful to the traditional approach of serving at the Med service in an end to end service. All major ports are called at directly including Trieste although it requires a major deviation.

If two shrewd operators are able to adopt an antagonistic approach and still be successful, surely that options have their own merits which bring specific tailor-made answers to their advocates.

Let us try to analyse those merits.

1) The traditional approach

In the so-called traditional approach the questions to be answered are simple:

  • what port deserve to be served directly?
  • in what order?

In the West Med, it appears that the remaining contenders or direct calls are few:

  • Barcelona or Valencia in Spain
  • Fos
  • Genova or La Spezia in Northern Italy

Naples or Livorno appear to be out of this race.

How to select between these ports?

Technical constraints are obviously met. These ports offer the necessary infrastructure (quay length, draft, sufficient cranes...) to accomodate the vessels presently serving the Med (3000/3500 teu vessels).

The decisive factors will be local cargo volumes and volumes which can irrigate the hinterland. This process of selection when it comes to the Spanish and Italian duets often lead to epical fight within consortium.

Volumes will be put in relation to deviation costs and port expenses. As the table will show West Med ports are not cheap.

Between terminals, berth window guarantees and operational productivity will be often outweighed by cost factors.

No need to elaborate on the benefits of calling directly at West Med ports: as long as one line, or an alliance of lines, has sufficient cargo volumes to pay for the port expenses and the deviation, then nothing can be superior than the direct product that will be offered.

2) The hub approach

Maersk pattern is the opposite to Evergreen's.

Three services originating in Asia are used, calling at two different hub ports namely Algeciras and Gioia Tauro.

Deviation from the main route for the ocean vessels is limited to a few hours.

From the two hub ports, the cargo is distributed by feeders and liner vessels to the final destinations.

Fro West Med ports, Maersk is combining with its West African and American services. No additional vessels are used but existing space available on existing tonnage is optimized.

By doing so, no feeder cost is incurred. Transhipment cost can be put against the saving in slot cost which is derived from the utilization of mammoth vessels on the trunk lines.

An additional benefit is offered by the possibility of making a double-dip utilization on the main line vessel. A slot used from Hong Kong to Genova freed in Gioia Tauro can be re-used to carry a box from say Istanbul to Rotterdam.

The option of serving the Med in transhipment as it can be seen from the example of Maersk can only be economically justified for a line with enough crossing services which allow for containers to be served at zero feeder cost.

Serving the Med ports with a transhipment service using common feeders is not a competitive option from the cost aspect in the current environment.

It is obvious that with the current Eastbound freight levels at say USD 200/20' from Genova to Hong Kong, once you have paid USD 100 to a feeder operator and USD 100 to a hub operator there is not much left to pay for the main line vessel.

It can be an option in less competitive trades where there is still a margin in freight rates.

The pattern used by Maersk requires a total control over terminal operations and a clockwork vessel scheduling.

It is therefore reserved to a few liner operators only who have the required number of complementary loops and, importantly, the capacity to master their cargo flows.


THE EMERGING PATTERN TO SERVE THE MED

In the globalisation race, all lines are compelled to serve all ports. All ports will not be served in the same way.

From the above examples, the emerging pattern to serve the Med can be established:

  • Direct calls for the West Med remains a must
  • Calls at super hub for relay to "adjacent markets" are necessary
  • A call at one single hub mayh not be enough

For West Med, the direct call issue has already been discussed.

Besides West Med, the Mediterranean bassin offers some of the few remaining "frontier" markets where containerization can still progress.

Reference is made here to Black Sea, East Med and North Africa. All these markets are fragmented. Ports are still underdeveloped and sometimes very expensive. Many of the ports require geared vessels. Others can even still not handle 40'.
Direct calls cannot be justified yet and will not be in the near future.

These markets can only be served by transhipment with either common or dedicated feeders. As a result lines still receive premiums on freight rates for their service.

It can happen that a line will be calling at more than one hub port in order to serve the related markets. This is done in order to be close to the respective markets. This explains the success of Damietta or Port Said which are ideally located to serve East Med.

In one case, Maersk is even calling at four hub p0orts on one of its services when it is only calling at two direct ports.

It is interesting in this respect to look at the requirements of lines when selecting a transhipment hub.


WHAT DOES A LINE REQUIRE FROM A HUB PORT?
  • Minimum deviation from the main route
  • Good geographical location to offer weekly shuttles to feeder markets
  • USD 50 per full cycle (TOC 98)
  • Hinterland market availability
  • Cheap port expenses for multiple calls
  • Rail connections to inland Europe
  • Immediate access to berth and cranes
  • High productivity (above 80 move per hour for mother vessels)

This shopping list is so exhaustive that not a single hub port is yet able to offer it all. Lines will have to arbitrate between these priorities.

These criteria can only be met by a few mega hub. Still, here and there, a line will try to innovate by calling at a "niche hub": COSCO in Naples, MSC in Piraeus or ZIM at Haifa.


COMMON FEEDERS OR CONTROLLED FEEDERS?

Once the decision has been taken to serve a port by transhipment then remain one more issue to resolve: common feeder or line operated feeder?

What will guide the decision are basic considerations:

  • Cost first
  • Commercial impact

The pattern here is also quite transparent: the new entrants will use common feeders where they will benefit from competitive costs but will be entirely in the hands of small operators. They will have no control whatsoever on their shipments and will be faced with problems of space, congestion ....

The more established lines will be operating their own dedicated feeders. By combining their volumes originating from various origins they will be able to use large feeder vessels and beat in terms of costs the feeder operators.

In addition, they will often be able to take advantage of their North European / East Med service which will fit into the mesh.

On top of this, they will be able to keep control of their flows and have the flexibility of immediately adjusting to what are still volatile markets.

This Club of mature players includes people like P&O Nedlloyd, Maersk or CMA.

If I may, for a short while, I would like to take CMA as an example and use one map to illustrate the coverage which CMA has achieved. It gives a good idea of the combinations which can be elaborated. (see map)

The existing pattern can be modified in time. The very interesting Med market to follow in the coming years will be the Adriatic. There a couple of direct callers are still resisting against the transhipment operators. It will really be interesting to see what happens when cranes in Taranto will start moving containers.


THE SHIPPER'S POINT OF VIEW

The know how of liner operators and the intrication of their services are such that many shippers would be surprised to hear that the container they have given to Maersk for Hong Kong / Fos is in fact transhipped in Algeciras or Gioia Tauro.

The strength of this company is that the shippers no longer care about the routing as they are simply confident that their cargo will reach its final destination on time.

This is fine. However, it should be known that in that particular case, the line will incur additional costs to serve this particular port.

In times where lines are looking for cargo to fill their increased capacity, shippers are safe.

From time to time however, vessels are becoming tight in space, lines operating transhipment services will either look to recovering their additional costs or restricting the acceptance of cargo from feeder ports.

Shippers should be aware of that and in their wise way of conducting their business, they should make sure that there is always a direct line to serve their own ports.

When that ceases to be the case, then for sure, their freight costs and their competitiveness to sell their goods will be hampered.

This could happen for instance to the French shippers using FOS to send shipments to the US East Coast.

This type of protective attitude should also be kept in mind of Port Authorities and Terminal Managements. Losing the status of base ports immediately leads to a reduction in volumes. Once your are left out of the race then you cannot catch up again. Some ports on the Tyrrenean cost of Italy are aware of this.


THE MEDITERRANEAN VISION

Being a liner operator based along the shores of the Med (CMA Head Office is in Marseilles), we would dream to see the Med ports become the California of Europe.

What difference between Marseilles and San Francisco?

What difference between Genoa and Los Angeles?

Med ports could be the gateways to Paris or Frankfurt in the same ways as Los Angeles and Oakland are those for Paris, Texas or Frankfurt, Indiana.

For a service plying the Asian route there is exactly seven days to save by turning in the MED rather than extending to North Europe.

This represents a saving of one vessel i.e. several millions of dollars per years.

There is a long way to go but we keep this idea as a long term vision.

The major obstacles are well known:

  • the infrastructure is suffering from bottlenecks (railroads ...)
  • high land costs are more than offsetting the vessel economies
  • there are strong natural historic hinterland ties to/from North European ports
  • there are established / reliable inland systems to/from North European ports

It will be CMA policy for instance to support the initiatives of Med ports and Terminals where they will be promoting intermodal service from these ports to Central Europe.

To conclude I would like to propose the question that should be discussed in TOC 2000: do the mega hub ports of today have the muscle to become the direct ports of tomorrow?

ASIA / MED VOLUMES

  % number of ports
West MedSpain 15% 3
 France15%  1
 Italy West20%  6
 Italy East10%  4
 Total 60% 
East Med  25%10 / 15
North Africa   10%10
Black Sea  5%5 / 10



ASIA / MED

  • classical end to end service calling at West Med ports
    Evergreen, CMA, Grand Alliance, New World Alliance
  • wayport en route to North Europe with direct calls in West Med
    MSC
  • integration in a pendulum service linking Asia and US East Coast
    COSCO, United Alliance
  • wayport via Hub port en route to US East Coast
    Maersk Sealand, Grand Alliance
  • wayport via Hub port en route to North Europe
    Maersk Sealand, CMA



ASIA / MED
TYPE OF COVERAGE

AlliancesType of serviceBase portsHub portsSize
CMAWAYPORT TO N. EUROPE (HUB)NOMALTA1800
CMA / NORASIAEND TO ENDBARCELONA / FOS / GENOA / NAPLESMALTA / DAMIETTA3500
CMA / NORASIAWAYPORT TO N. EUROPE (HUB)NOMALTA4000
COSCOPENDULUM TO US EAST COASTBARCELONA / FOS / GENOA / NAPLESNAPLES3000
EVERGREEN / L. TRIESTINOEND TO ENDVALENCIA / BARCELONA / FOS / GENOA / TRIESTEGIOIA TAURO3000
EVERGREEN / L. TRIESTINOWAYPORT TO N. EUROPE (HUB)NOGIOIA TAURO2700
GRAND ALLIANCEEND TO ENDBARCELONA / FOS / LA SPEZIAMALTA / DAMIETTA3500
GRAND ALLIANCEPENDULUM TO US EAST COAST (HUB)NOMALTA3000
K-LINEWAYPORT TO N. EUROPENOPORT SAID3500
MAERSK / SEALANDPENDULUM TO US EAST COAST (HUB)NOALGECIRAS / GIOIA TAURO3000/6000
MAERSK / SEALANDWAYPORT TO N. EUROPE (HUB)NOALGECIRAS6000
MAERSK / SEALANDWAYPORT TO N. EUROPE (HUB)NOGIOIA TAURO4000
MSCWAYPORT TO N. EUROPE (DIRECT)FOS / LA SPEZIAPIRAEUS3500
NEW WORLD ALLIANCEEND TO ENDBARCELONA / FOS / GENOAPORT SAID3000
UNITED ALLIANCEPENDULUM TO US EAST COAST (DIRECT)VALENCIA / FOS / LA SPEZIAGIOIA TAURO3000
ZIMEND TO ENDTRIESTEHAIFA2500



THE MED CLUB

Direct ports leagueValencia versus Barcelona
Fos
Genova versus La Spezia
Close to relegationLivorno / Trieste
Super Hub ClubAlgeciras
Gioia Tauro
Malta
Niche HubsHaifa
Damietta
Piraeus
Port Said
Naples
Transhipment portsAll other Med ports



WHO IS WHERE?
BASE PORTS IN WEST MED

 VALENCIABARCELONAFOSGENOVALA SPEZIANAPLESTRIESTE
        
  APLAPLAPL   
  HYUNDAIHYUNDAIHYUNDAI   
  MITSUIMITSUIMITSUI   
  YMLYMLYML   
        
  CMACMACMA CMA 
  NORASIANORASIANORASIA NORASIA 
        
  COSCOCOSCOCOSCO COSCO 
        
 EVERGREENEVERGREENEVERGREENEVERGREEN  EVERGREEN
 L. TRIESTINOL. TRIESTINOL. TRIESTINOL. TRIESTINO  L. TRIESTINO
        
  HAPAG LLOYDHAPAG LLOYD HAPAG LLOYD  
  OOCLOOCL OOCL  
  P&O NEDLLOYDP&O NEDLLOYD P&O NEDLLOYD  
  NYKNYK NYK  
  MISCMISC MISC  
        
 CHOYANG CHOYANG CHOYANG  
 HANJIN HANJIN HANJIN  
 UASC UASC UASC  
 DSR SENATOR DSR SENATOR DSR SENATOR  
        
   MSC MSC  
        
TOTAL       
LINES6141991033
ALLIANCES2574322



WHO IS WHERE?
HUB PORTS IN MED

 ALGECIRASMALTAGIOIA TAUROPIRAEUSDAMIETTAPORT SAIDHAIFA
        
       ZIM
        
  CMA  CMA  
  NORASIA  NORASIA  
        
      K-LINE 
        
   EVERGREEN    
   L. TRIESTINO    
        
 MAERSK MAERSK    
 SEALAND SEALAND    
        
  HAPAG LLOYD  HAPAG LLOYD  
  OOCL  OOCL  
  P&O NEDLLOYD  P&O NEDLLOYD  
  NYK  NYK  
  MISC  MISC  
        
    MSC   
        
   CHOYANG    
   DSR SENATOR    
   HANJIN    
   UASC    
        
      APL 
      HYUNDAI 
      MITSUI 
      YML 
        
TOTAL       
LINES6141991033
ALLIANCES2574322

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In the first eight months of 2025, container traffic in the port of Gioia Tauro grew by +10.6%
Gioia Tauro
2,912,943 TEUs were handled
Stena Line to buy Latvian port operator Terrabalt
Gothenburg
It handles rolling stock, bulk cargo, and general cargo traffic in the port of Liepaja.
Meyer Turku begins construction of Royal Caribbean's fourth "Icon"-class cruise ship
Miami/Turku
It will be delivered in 2027
More than one in ten maritime shipments has shortages
Washington
This is what a report by the World Shipping Council has revealed, highlighting the safety risks
Last July, traffic in the port of Ravenna increased by +3.8%
Ravenna
In the first seven months of 2025, growth was +5.4%
In the first quarter of 2025, freight traffic in Belgian ports fell by -3.2%.
Brussels
Landings down 1.3% and embarkations down 5.4%
Product tanker High Fidelity rescues 38 migrants on a drifting dinghy
Rome
Intervention in the south of the island of Crete
GES and RINA sign agreement to develop a prototype of a new hydrogen battery
Rovereto/Genoa
PSA's second phase of container terminal at Mumbai Port inaugurated
Singapore
Annual traffic capacity will increase to 4.8 million TEUs
The conference "EU ETS - Perspectives and Opportunities for Decarbonization in the Maritime Sector" will be held in Palermo.
Rome
It will be held on September 18th and 19th
Fincantieri and PGZ sign an agreement to support the modernization of the Polish Navy
Trieste
The third LSS section for Chantiers de l'Atlantique was launched in Castellammare di Stabia.
In the US, funding for wind energy development projects in ports is being cut.
Washington
Resources worth $679 million will be reallocated for port infrastructure upgrades
From January 1st, Kombiverkehr will operate the PKV intermodal terminal in the port of Duisburg.
Frankfurt am Main
It has a traffic capacity of approximately 200 thousand intermodal units per year.
Wallenius Marine and ABB form Overseas joint venture
Stockholm
The aim is to accelerate the launch of the platform of the same name for improving fleet performance.
DHL eCommerce has acquired a minority stake in Saudi Arabia's AJEX Logistics Services.
Bonn/Riyadh
The Middle Eastern company has two thousand employees
The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport has asked the Region to agree on the appointment of Bagalà as president of the Sardinian Port Authority.
Rome
He is currently the extraordinary commissioner of the same body
CMPort's port terminals handled record container traffic in the second quarter
Hong Kong
In the first six months of 2025 the total was 78.8 million TEUs (+4.3%)
Confitarma approves the decree on advanced training for tanker seafarers.
Rome
Applause to the General Command of the Port Authority Corps
Quarterly freight traffic in Moroccan ports increases
Tangier/Casablanca
In Tanger Med the growth was +17%
The board of directors of the Genoa-based Ente Bacini has been renewed.
Genoa
President Alessandro Arvigo and CEO Maurizio Anselmo
In the second quarter, sales of dry containers produced by CIMC fell by -33%.
Hong Kong
Reefer boats increase by 57%
The Grimaldi Group has taken delivery of the Grande Shanghai
Naples
It will be used for the transport of vehicles between East Asia and Northern Europe
The ART urges to verify that the investment plan and the related amortization period are consistent with the duration of the port concessions.
Turin
Chinese automaker FAW ships components to Europe by train
Changchun
Transit time reduced to 18 days compared to 45 days for maritime transport
The assets and fleet of the Spanish Armas Trasmediterránea will be sold to Baleària and DFDS
Las Palmas/Dénia/Copenhagen
Two agreements worth €215 million and €40 million respectively have been signed.
Italian State Railways (FS), investing €70 million to install the ERTMS system.
Rome
Work has been completed on 382 Trenitalia trains, while the retrofitting of 60 locomotives from Mercitalia Rail, an FS Logistix company, is underway.
MPC Container Ships' quarterly revenue returns to growth
The second quarter of 2025 was closed with a net profit of 78.1 million dollars (+20.5%)
Plans to build two container customs areas north and south of the Suez Canal
Cairo
Fourteen of the 48 abandoned shipwrecks in Catania port have been removed.
Catania
The activity will be replicated in the port of Augusta
The Regional Administrative Court (TAR) has confirmed the validity of the tender for the new Ravano Terminal in the port of La Spezia.
La Spezia
DP World's port terminals handled record quarterly container traffic
Dubai
Revenues grew by 22.2% in the first half of 2025
In the quarter April-June the volume of rolling stock transported by Höegh Autoliners increased by +9.0%
Oslo
Sharp increase (+46.6%) of vehicles from Asia
South Korea's HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering acquires Vietnam's Doosan Enerbility
Seongnam
It manages an industrial area with its own port facility
Container traffic in the port of Algeciras grew by 6.6% in July
Algeciras
In the first seven months of 2025, a decrease of -2.9% was recorded
In July, the port of Valencia handled 488,000 containers (+6.7%)
Valencia
Increase driven by growth in empty containers
Salvini has appointed Annalisa Tardino as extraordinary commissioner of the Western Sicilian Sea Port Authority.
Rome/Palermo
The President of the Sicilian Region announces the appeal against the provision
The materials dredged in the ports of La Spezia and Carrara will be used for the construction of the new breakwater in Genoa.
Genoa/La Spezia
Agreement between the two Ligurian Port System Authorities
X-Press Feeders denounces authorities' failure to acknowledge responsibility in the X-Press Pearl accident
Singapore
According to the company, the Supreme Court ruling ignores international maritime law
Container traffic in the port of Hong Kong decreased by -6.5% in July
Hong Kong
A decline of -3.7% was recorded in the first seven months of 2025
Cargo traffic in Russian ports remained stable in July
St. Petersburg
In the first seven months of 2025, loads decreased by -4.6%
In July, the Port of Singapore set a new all-time record for monthly container traffic with 3.9 million TEUs.
Singapore
In terms of weight, containerized cargo decreased by -3.6%
Compensation to be paid by the Civitavecchia Port Authority in the Fincosit case has been set at €1.5 million.
Civitavecchia
Latrofa: The ruling allows the release of set-aside sums that have frozen the budget for years.
Germany's HHLA posts record quarterly revenue
Hamburg
In the second quarter, the group's port terminals handled 3.2 million containers (+7.9%)
In the first half of 2025, CK Hutchison's port terminals handled 44 million containers (+4.0%)
Hong Kong
In the quarter April-June the Wallenius Wilhelmsen fleet transported 14.8 million cubic meters of rolling stock (-0.5%)
Lysaker
Revenues down by -0.7%
In the second quarter, Montenegro's ports handled 670 thousand tons of goods (+0.6%)
Podgorica
Volumes with Italy amounted to 154 thousand tons (+53.1%)
PORTS
Italian Ports:
Ancona Genoa Ravenna
Augusta Gioia Tauro Salerno
Bari La Spezia Savona
Brindisi Leghorn Taranto
Cagliari Naples Trapani
Carrara Palermo Trieste
Civitavecchia Piombino Venice
Italian Interports: list World Ports: map
DATABASE
ShipownersShipbuilding and Shiprepairing Yards
ForwardersShip Suppliers
Shipping AgentsTruckers
MEETINGS
Conference: "Waiting and Delays in Road Transport: Logistics in Check"
Genoa
Organized by Trasportounito, it will be held on September 26th in Genoa
The conference "EU ETS - Perspectives and Opportunities for Decarbonization in the Maritime Sector" will be held in Palermo.
Rome
It will be held on September 18th and 19th
››› Meetings File
PRESS REVIEW
Korean Firms Reassess U.S. Investments After Mass Immigration Raid
(The Korea Bizwire)
Russia's infrastructure development plan aims to build 17 marine terminals by 2036
(Interfax)
››› Press Review File
FORUM of Shipping
and Logistics
Intervento del presidente Tomaso Cognolato
Roma, 19 giugno 2025
››› File
With the arrival of the first container ship, the testing of operational procedures at the Rijeka Gateway begins.
The Hague
The first commercial ship is expected on September 12th
A proposal to bring the port of Taranto back onto global container routes? Start a discussion table.
Taranto
Meeting on the status of freight traffic
Port of Ancona: Tender for demolition of fire-damaged Tubimar warehouses
Ancona
The expected duration of the works is four and a half months
Merger of the German MACS and Hugo Stinnes, both active in the MPP vessel segment
Hamburg/Rostock
Stinnes headquarters in Rostock to close by December 31
In the second quarter, freight traffic in Albanian ports grew by +2.9%
Tirana
There were 331 thousand passengers (+13.6%)
A.SPE.DO, operationalizing the Smart Terminal to increase the competitiveness of the port of La Spezia.
La Spezia
ING loans to Premuda for over 100 million dollars
Milan
Funds for the management buyout and the purchase of two product tankers
Sallaum Lines has taken delivery of the first of six Ocean-class dual-fuel PCTCs
Rotterdam
The ship was completed four months ahead of schedule
First meeting of the new Management Committee of the Western Ligurian Sea Port Authority
Genoa
Several measures approved, including those for CULMV and CULP staff
Euroports to operate a new liquid bulk terminal in the French port of Port-La Nouvelle
Beveren-Kruibeke-Zwijndrecht
It is expected to become operational in 2026
In the second quarter, freight traffic in the port of Ravenna increased by +2.6%
Ravenna
Growth of 0.6% was recorded in June. An increase of 4.8% is expected in July.
OsserMare presents five reports on the marine economy
Rome
They focus on a specific sector supply chain or aspect of it
Port of Naples: Road haulage operations resume
Naples
Resolution meeting between institutions, operators and trade associations
ICTSI again reports record quarterly financial and operating results
Manila
Global Ship Lease Reports Record Quarterly Revenue
Athens
In the April-June period, net profit was 95.4 million dollars (+8.4%)
Vard receives new order from North Star for two hybrid SOVs
Trieste
Contract worth between 100 and 200 million euros
The Panama Shipping Registry will no longer accept the registration of oil tankers and bulk carriers over 15 years old.
Panama
Measure to counter the use of the shadow fleet
Danaos Corporation reports record quarterly revenue
Athens
The April-June period closed with a net profit of 130.9 million (-7.3%)
New customs fast corridor between the port of La Spezia and Interporto Padova
Padua
It adds to the other three already active on the same route
ICTSI to operate Indonesia's Batu Ampar Container Terminal
Manila
It is located on Batam Island
Pino Musolino has been appointed CEO of the Alilauro shipping company.
Naples
He replaces the resigning Eliseo Cuccaro
In the second quarter, DIS' time charter revenues fell by -37.1%.
Luxembourg
Net income was $19.6 million (-70.5%)
Wista Italy denounces the exclusion of women from the nominations of port authority presidents.
Milan
Musso: The glass ceiling that prevents women from accessing leadership roles remains.
Austrian Rail Cargo Group is focusing on the development of the Sommacampagna-Sona intermodal terminal.
Vienna
Ten-year agreement
In the second quarter, maritime traffic in the Bosphorus Strait decreased by -6.0%
Ankara
18.1% decline in ships over 200 metres in length
Fifty kilos of cocaine seized at the port of Civitavecchia
Rome
They were hidden inside a reefer container arriving from Ecuador
Trump has eliminated tariff exemptions for low-cost goods for all nations.
Washington
Goods with a value of less than $800 will also be subject to the tax.
Viking Mira was launched at Fincantieri's Ancona shipyard
Trieste
The multi-role frigate "Emilio Bianchi" was delivered to the Muggiano shipyard
The Port Authority of the Central-Northern Adriatic Sea has obtained EMAS registration
Ravenna
Certifies commitment to environmental management and sustainability
MSC Cruises reduces emissions with the support of an energy transition plan
Geneva
The 2024 Sustainability Report has been presented
DSV reports strong growth in financial and operating results thanks to the acquisition of Schenker
Hedehusene
Quarterly record in air and ocean shipment volumes
In 2024, the Fratelli Cosulich group's revenues increased by +12.8%
Genoa
Operating result down by -31.7%
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