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Three proposals of the Confetra to the government so that the economic pandemic does not make more damages than that sanitary one
Nicolini: draft of a package of measures that needs of covers for about nine billions
March 31, 2020

The president of the General Confederation Italiana of the Transports and the Logistics (Confetra), Guido Nicolini, has introduced the Giuseppe Conte, Prime Minister, and to the ministra of Infrastructures and of the Transports, Paola De Micheli, a document from the title "To react quickly. The ‘post-war period’ of the Logistics risks to undermine the entire national economy", that we publish below, evidencing that the economic pandemic risks to make more damages than that sanitary one.

On a yearly basis - it has explained the organization that represent the Italian enterprises of the logistics - Centro Studi of the Confederation previews a contraction of the volumes between the 20 and 25%. If the commercial interchange of the Country with the remainder of the World will inflect of about 150 billion euros, as by projection - it has specified Confetra - in terms of goods enlivened this would be equivalent to about 90 million tons, between import and export: the equivalent of 18 billion turnover for the entire field of the logistics and the transport goods. The Confederation has emphasized that this is equivalent to a devastation for activities that, as demonstrated also in this dramatic provoked crisis diffusing itself of the contagion of Covid-19, represent the connecting woven one of the national economy, the consumption, supplyings, the exchanges, of the imports, of the exports.

"We are - president of Confetra, Guido Nicolini has remembered - the net that holds the real economy and if it had to collassare, not there is resumption that holds. From weeks we work substantially in loss: to that is unchanged fixed costs, but medium to the 25-30% of the volumes. Specifying that in this moment of emergency the field of the logistics could not "certainly remain at home", Nicolini has evidenced that but "now it serves a solid injection of liquidity through direct and attivabili instruments in a matter of days, not weeks, in order to hold the field standing".

Three, substantially, the proposals advanced from the Confederation to the government: a reduction flat of the fiscal wedge of 40% for next the 20 months, the possibility to quickly embed through CDP 50% of the invoices inevase without burdens, the constitution of a national Bottom in order to eat the enterprises that can demonstrate a gap of turnover between the period of the emergency and lockdown 2020 regarding the same period of 2019.

"Draft - it has specified Nicolini - of a "package" of measures that needs of covers for about nine billions. And we only speak about the logistic field and transport goods. It is clearly that all this has a sense if the government, as we hope, will want indeed to set up urgent politics for the resumption as that evoked in recent days from Dragons. An other provision from 25 billion euros instead, bond in order to only postpone of an ulterior month the fiscal expirations and little other, would mean in wide measure to condemn to us to close clappers in a matter of weeks".


TO REACT QUICKLY
The "post-war period" of the Logistics risks to undermine the entire national economy

30 March 2020

PREMISED

The Field of the logistics and the transport goods has been revealed, in the emergency, all its strategicità. Almost 100 thousand enterprises, 1,5 million attache's, 85 billion turnover in 2019: 9% of the GDP national.
The connecting architecture and organizational engineering of national the economic system: harbour terminalisti, to interpose, operating railway goods, logistic haulers, warehouses, postal centers of distribution, couriers, operators, shippers, doganalisti, operators to you of the aerial cargo, handlers. A longest and complex chain of enterprises and professionality, all interrelate between they, than every day it has guaranteed and it guarantees consumption, distribution, supplying, import, export. This a lot to the final, city consumers and families, as for the manufacturers of every section, from steel to agriculture.
The effects of the Covid-19 have been and are tragic. For activity as ours that are based on the OPERATING FLUIDITY and VOLUMES TO TRANSPORT, the twofold effect of the physical limitations taxes from the control measures and of the closing of the productive activities our customers, is dramatic. To obviously unchanged fixed costs for the companies (costs of labor, management of the fleets of carriers, rent and management of the warehouses, software, administrative burdens) has corresponded instead reductions of the volumes until 70%, according to the specific segments.
AND the WORSE one MUST STILL COME, at least for two orders of reasons. The first: the effects of the lockdown, before only in the commerce then also productive-manufacturer, will produce its indefensible economic effects in next the 6/8 weeks. According to our Centro Studi, an ulterior contraction between the 40 and 60% of the enlivened residual volumes will be recorded, to April and then to May, regarding freedom of expression. Obviously a lot will depend on the eventual delay of the lockdown same after on 3 April.
But, paradoxicalally, still more worrisome are the analyses of scene of medium period.
Istat and State Audit Court, in Relazioni of accompanyment to the DL Italy Cure, have spoken about "economy from post-war period".

ChinaDesk (attached 1), on the base of the projections OCSE that estimate the contraction of the World gdp of the -1,5% (crisis of 2009 carried to the contraction of the -1,4%), executes an analysis of the impacts on the commercial exchanges and the balance of the balance of payments in Italy in 2020.

It is taken to the 2009 (Great Recession and Porcine pandemic H1N1) to reference. Esteem, so, a contraction of the exchanges in 2020 between Italy and remainder of the world of 149,1 billion euros (- 18%) so shared: consumer goods (- 80,6 Mld€), industrial goodses (- 32,4 industrial Mld€) and assets consumption/(- 36.1 Mld€).

The Cerved (attached 2), working on two various scenes (concluded crisis to May or December 2020) previews, for our Field, on base anniversary, a reduction of the turnover attested in a scissor between the 18 and 30%.

With of the data of such first studies, confirmation a tendency: the crisis for our varrà Field medium at least 20% of volumes and turnovers, and consequently of job and occupation. We speak therefore about 95 million tons of goods in less, that they are worth 17 billion turnover and 320 thousand places of work.

It has done good the Government to offer to first answers to the enterprises previewing deferrals of burdens and taxes to 30 or 60 days.

Now he is indispensable to change registry.
These over exposed are numbers "from post-war period" for the Field of the logistics and the transport goods, and need participations and set in action urgent that are able to give spallata to these statistics from the immediate side of the liquidity availability.
Some of these will need of direct investments and administrative speditezza: beginning from the realization of all the relative programmed infrastructural works to the completion - in our Pese - of the nets TRY for corridors, adductions, Core nodes and comprehensive. Other measures do not need, instead, of economic coverage, be a matter themselves of innovations and normative and procedural simplifications that the logistic industry invokes from years.

These the little and clear priorities that the entire Confederal System intends, in the immediate one, to subject to the Government and the Parliament being depended on the support of the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports.
This also to light of taken of contained formal action in article 61 of the DL relative the Italy Cure and to the acknowledgment of the Field transport goods and logistics (letter n article 61) as one of the productive rows more hit by the effects of the crisis.


1 - PARTICIPATIONS FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE COSTS OF LABOR

The logistics is the Field labour intensive for excellence and the costs of labor are the incomprimibile element of greater impact on the business budgets. A reduction of such cost would allow with the enterprises first of all to survive and favorably to assign at least part of such savings to the investments, in particular those in technological innovation. The Covid-19 emergency has returned not more rinviabile such measure. One wonders therefore to preview relief contributive for the enterprises that post-emergence maintain to the occupational levels precedence substantially unchanged. To pull down of 40% the costs of labor needs of estimable cover between the 6 and 7 billion euros considering an audience of beneficiaries of about 90 thousand enterprises, 900 thousand employee and a medium annual salary and wage (RAL) of 30 thousand euros.

He is moreover indispensable to preview a moratorium of the CCNL in expiration in the period of the Covid-19 emergency; this measure does not have costs for the State.



Contributive bonus for the companies of logistics, shipment, transport


Alle enterprises of the logistic Field, shipment, transport that, also hit from the emergency Coronavirus, on December 31, 2021 maintain until at least 80% of the occupational levels in force to the date of 1 February 2020, intending for such the workers not in test to time indeterminate and excluded the apprentices, is recognized for the same period as above the exoneration from the deposit of the 40 percent of the social insurance contributions for cover IVS at the expense of the same ones. The share remains firm of computes of the pension performances.


Moratorium CCNL in expiration


In consideration of the economic repercussions Coronaviruses provoked by the emergency, are postponed until on December 31, 2020 the vigenza of the national collective bargaining agreements of all the economic fields under renew to the date of effectiveness of anticipate disposition.


2 - LIQUIDITY

The Covid-19 emergency is provoking in the field a liquidity crisis financial institution of unimaginable proportions. They are estimated already today beyond 2,5 billion euros of unsolved credits for the single sections of the transport on rubber, the deliveries and shipments. If helped the great part of the companies does not risk the failure: the times of proceeds of the invoices, today, medium on the 80 days, are not more sustainable. One wonders therefore to activate an extraordinary participation of Bank of Deposits and Loans so that it, directly or through the financial institutions, advance payments the quota proceeds leave of the issued invoices. For the cover of the measure a fabisogno is estimated of 1,2 miliaridi of euro, partially intended as spin bottom, partially to cover of burdens and interests.

Moreover the creation of a Bottom to the aim is necessary to eat the Field of the logistics and the transport goods for the dimunuzione of turnover.

One moreover wonders to suppress for the 2020 increase anniversary on triennial base of the Ires share for the concessionaires. That features of airports, freeways, ports, to interpose you or railway infrastructures, the heavy financial ruin of volumes enlivened and transported for all the year in course, today return this forecast introduced with the last Law of Stability indefensible.



Advance on invoice
1. The enterprises that carry out road haulage activity third parties goods, international shipment, courier, doganalista, operating department store postal, terminalisti, can introduce to Bank of Deposits and Loans for through of the financial institutions demanded of advance on the invoices emitted in the period from 1 February 2020 on September 30, 2020 pairs to the 50 percent of the taxable income, without burdens neither interests. The advance is given back to Bank of Deposits and Loans in the term of 12 months with burdens borne by the State.
2. With I decree of the Ministry of the Economy and Finances to emanate itself within 15 days from the effectiveness of the disposition of which to codicil 1 the relative modalities of performance are established


Bottom for the logistics


Near the Ministry of Infrastructures and the Transports a Bottom is instituted in order to eat the transport companies shipment and logistics that in the period of the Covid-19 emergency, even though remained in activity to the aim to guarantee the transport of the goods of which to attached the 1 of DM 25.3.2020, they can demonstrate a reduction of the revenues regarding the same period of 2019.


Abolition for 2020 of the Ires increase for the concessionaires


The Ires increase in head to the public Federal property concessionaires, of which to article 1 codicil 716 of Legge 27 December 2019 n.160, it is suppressed for the annuity in course


3 - PARTICIPATIONS OF SIMPLIFICATION

Confetra has collaborated with the Cnel to a first mapping of the participations of simplification that interest the logistics. It is calculated that the weight of the bureaucracy on the Field involves an increase of annual estimable burdens in 30 billion. One wonders to take part with a first series of participations that do not involve burdens borne by the State, but contribute, in particular in the phase post-emergence to make to share the Field.

They are brought back unanimously under five proposals already approved of by the Shareholders' meeting of the Cnel, correspondents from the Presidency of the Cnel to the Chambers and already hinged and partially discussed in the competent Commission (you see attached 3). To accelerate their transformation in bureaucratic laws would overwhelm good part degi onrei that weigh on the enterprises and that over they are recalled.



Rationalization of the warnings ship that the commanders must send to the several P.A of the port


1. To article 179 of the navigation code they are assistants, in fine, the following codicils:
“The note of information of which to the first codicil, comprising data of the forms listed there, it is acquired in via data transmission from the competent marine authority, on system PMIS (Port Management Information System), and from this contextually made available, in via data transmission, to all the public administrations of which to article 1, codicil 2, of I decree legislative 30 March 2001, n. 165, that they take part in the procedures of assessment and control inherent to the operations of arrival and departure of the ships of which to anticipates article.
It is made prohibition the public administrations of which to the eighth codicil asking the commander for the ship or the marine raccomandatario or another representative for the shipowner or person authorized from the commander, the shipment of the data of which to the note of already acquired information from the competent marine authority”


Competence of Justice of the Peace in the controversies on the CdS of the road haulage enterprises


2. After codicil 2 of article 7 of I decree legislative 1 september 2011, n. 150, are inserted the following one:
“2-second. In the cases in which the violation it is contested to leading of commercial of properties or stopped vehicles in leasing from subjects enrolled in White the national one of the haulers, the opposition of which to codicil 2 it is proposed in front of Justice of the Peace of the place in which the society has registered office”.


Harmonization of the business hours of the P.A participants to the phase of clearance


To article 1 of I decree legislative 8 November 1990, n. 374, are assistant, in fine, the following codicil:
“9-second. The dispositions of codicils 1, 2, 4, 5 and 8 of anticipate article are applied also to the staff been dependent on the public administrations of which to article 1, codicil 2, of I decree legislative 30 March 2001, n. 165, that they take part in the procedures of assessment and control in the norm and law enforcement of the European Union in matter of breaking in of the goods in the territory of the European Union and of export of the goods from the territory of the European Union. To the aims of which to codicil anticipates, the implementations that codicil 2 places at the expense of the Director of the Agency of customs and the monopolies intend places at the expense of the Minister that is of the summit of the administration whose offices are involved in the aforesaid procedures”.


Delegation for I reorder of the activity of regulation in the Field you transport and logistics


1. The Government is delegated to adopt, within twelve months from the date of effectiveness of anticipates law, decrees legislative for reorders and the simplification of the afferent discipline to the system of the logistics of the goods, in the respect of the following principles and directive criteria:
a) definition of the withins of competence of the placed activities of regulation in being from the Ministry of infrastructures and the transports, from the national Agency for safety of the railroads and street and highway infrastructures, from the Manager of the railway infrastructure national railway Net Italian Spa and from the Authorities of harbour system and, with reference to the within of the services of public usefullness, from the Authority of regulation of the transports, in the matter of the logistics of the goods;
b) simplification and rationalization, also to the aim to avoid duplications of participations regolators, the concessori procedures, authorized to you and of control whose phases are remittances to the competence of distinguished public administrations contemperando the requirements of effectiveness of the safety procedures in the circulation of the goods with the efficiency and the speditezza of the procedures, the certainty of the regulation, the clarity and not duplication of the implementations.
2. I decree legislative of which to codicil 1 it is adopted on proposal of the Minister of infrastructures and the transports, advance acquisition of the opinion of the unified Conference of which to 28 article 8 of I decree legislative August 1997, n. 281, of the Council of State and the national Council of the economy and the job, that they are profitable in the term of forty-five days from the date of transmission of the outline of I decree legislative, passed which the Government can however proceed.
The outline of I decree legislative successively is transmitted to the Chambers for the expression of the opinions of the competent Parliamentary commissions for matter and the financial profiles and of the Parliamentary commission for the simplification, than they are pronounced in the term of sixty days from the date of transmission, passed which I decree legislative can be however adopted. If the term previewed for the opinion falls in the thirty days that successively precede the expiration of the term previewed from codicil 1 or, the same expiration is postponed of ninety days. The Government, in case does not intend to comply to the opinions parliamentarians, newly transmits the text to the Chambers with its observations and eventual modifications, equipped with the necessary integrating elements of information and motivation. The competent Parliamentary commissions for matter can be expressed on the observations of the Government within the term of ten days from the date of the new transmission. Passed such term, I decree legislative can however be adopted.
3. Within twelve months from the date of effectiveness of I decree legislative of which to codicil 1, the Government can adopt, in the respect of the principles and directive criteria and of the procedure of which to article anticipates, or more you decree legislative bringing integrating and corrective dispositions.


Update of the concerning dispositions of the Civil code the shipment activity goods


Al Regio I decree 16 March 1942, n.262, Book IV, Title III, Head IX, Section III are brought the following modifications.
Article 1737 so is replaced:
Art.1737 (Notion)
The shipment contract is a mandate with which the shipper assumes the obligation to conclude on behalf in proper noun and of sending or, if equipped of representation powers, in name and on behalf of sending, or more contracts than transport, with or more carriers and than to complete the accessory operations.

Article 1738 so is replaced:
Art. 1738 (Revokes)
It stops remaining the observance of the disposed one of article 1725, until the shipper has not concluded the contract of transport with the carrier, sending can revoke the shipment order object of the mandate, reimbursing the shipper of the supported expenses and corresponding a fair compensation to it for the lend activity.

Article 1739 so is replaced:
Art. 1739 (Obligation of the shipper)
In the execution of the mandate the shipper is held to observe the instructions of sending.
The shipper does not have the obligation to supply to the assurance of the things sent, except expressed demanded of sending. Article 1740 so is replaced:

Art. 1740 (Straight of the shipper)
The fee which had to the shipper is determined by the free dealing of the parts that stipulate the contract.
Sending is always responsible towards the shipper of the payment of the hire and the other expenses supported from the shipper for the execution of the mandate, also with regard to the costs deriving from the fact of parts third, independently from the existing pacts between said parts third and sending.
Being given how much arranged from article 1710, codicil 1 and 1739 codicil 1, the shipper is not responsible towards sending of the nonperformance of the carriers and of other subjects with which it has contracted or that however they take part in the execution of the transport.

Article 1741 so is replaced:
Art. 1741 (Shipper carrier: notion and responsibility)
The shipper who with means other people's own or express assumes the execution of the transport - in all or partially - is defined shipper carrier and has the obligations and the rights of the carrier.
In case the Shipper carrier is held to the compensation of the derivative damages to has right it, for loss or damage of the sent things been necessary during the phases of transport and technical lying, the due compensation could not be advanced to indicated how much from art. 1696.

Article 1696 so is replaced:
Art. 1696 (Limits to the compensation for loss or damage of the transported things)
The damage deriving from loss or damage is estimated according to the going rate of the things transported in the place and in the time of it gives back.
The compensation which had from the carrier cannot be advanced to an euro for every kilogram of gross weight of the goods lost or damaged in transport national earthlings and to the amount of which to article 23, codicil 3, of the Convention for the street transport of goods, ratified with law 6 Decembers 1960, n. 1621, and next modifications, in transport international earthlings, that is to the limits previewed from the international conventions or the applicable national laws for transport airplane, marine, fluvial and railway, there always that they rerun the previewed foundations for rising of the responsibility of the carrier.
If the transport is carried out for through more vectorial means than various nature, and it is not possible to distinguish in which phase of the transport the damage has happened, the compensation which had from the carrier could not in any case be advanced to an euro for every kilogram of in transport national gross weight of the goods lost or damaged and to three euros for every kilogram of in transport international gross weight of the goods lost or damaged.
The forecast of which to the codicils precedence he is not derogabile in favor of the carrier if not in the cases and with the modalities previewed from the special laws and the applicable international conventions.
The carrier cannot make use of the limitation of the responsibility previewed to its favor from anticipates article where is supplied the test that the loss or the damage of the goods is determined by fraud or serious guilt of the carrier or employee its and preplaces, that is of every other subject of which it has made use for the execution of the transport, when such subjects have churn in the exercise of their functions.

Article 2761 so is replaced:
Art. 2761 (Credits of the carrier, the shipper, the mandatory, the depositary and the sequestratario)
The credits employee from the contract of transport and shipment and those for expenses of tax anticipated by the carrier or the shipper have privilege on the transported things or sent until these remain near of he.
Such privilege can be practised also on assets object of a various transport or of a shipment from those for which the credit is risen provided that sayings you transport or shipments constitute execution of an only contract for periodic or ongoing performances.
The credits deriving from the execution of the mandate have privilege on the things of sending that the mandatory stops for the execution of the mandate.
The credits deriving from the warehouse or the conventional seizure in favor of the depositary and of the sequestratario have parimenti privilege on the things that these stop for effect of the warehouse or the seizure. The dispositions of the second and the third codicil of art. the 2756 are applied to these privileges.
In case the mandatory has supplied to on behalf pay the custom duties of sending, its credit has the privilege of which to art. the 2752.


4 - PARTICIPATIONS IN ORDER TO ACCELERATE THE DIGITALISATION IN THE FIELD

The Covid-19 emergency has been profitable obvious how much the digitalisation of the administrative procedures and in general terms I use it of the digital technologies are fundamental for the operativity of the system Country. The immaterial connections return the continuation of many activities also of the PA possible. In the logistics moreover still too many procedures are unfortunately employee from the paper. Profit appears to pick such opportunity, sure exceptional, in order to recover the lost time and to quickly proceed in the digitalisation of all a series of documents and processes, is in the relationships between operators and PA who between same operators. The immediate start wonders moreover for the Unico Amministratico Door (ITS) and for the Unico Doganale Door and Controls (SUDOCO) introduced with the D.Lgvo n.169/2016. Ques'tulitmoche allows the interoperability of the systems of all the PA involved in the clearance procedures, with optimization of the times and consequent reduction of the burdens at the expense of the enterprises. The DPCM for the start of the SUDOCO is ready from years, but ispiegabilmente firm in order better not specified verifications still in course. It goes immediately emanated and put in action Contextually one wonders that in order to favor the ripartenza of the economy, taken into consideration the fundamental role of the international exchanges, allows the maximum fluidity of the traffics in import-export reducing temporary the coefficients of risk of the customs system computerized that determine the outcomes of the clearance.



Digitalisation of documents and the processes that impattano on the Field of the logistics


In exception to the enforced normative dispositions or the commercial uses of square, all the destined certifications of any nature to private Public Administration or, documents of transport, the authorizations, the certificates of credit and every document necessary to assist the operations of import and export of goods, will be sent in the single digital format. Whereby the paper document was demanded originally, the document could be replaced from suitable digital forms of authentication.


Modifications analysis of customs risk


In constancy of Covid-19 emergency, made blank detailed lists investigative requirements for anti-drug, anti-terrorism, traffic of sanitary weapons and for alert, to all the goods is recognized a temporary reduction of the percentages of physical control in import and export apt to guarantee the maximum operating fluidity in the phase of clearance.
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In the first six months of 2025, 13.8 million tonnes were handled (-3.2%)
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Ljubljana
In the period April-June, 5.6 million tons of goods were moved (-4.1%)
Port of Los Angeles hits record monthly container traffic
Los Angeles
Over one million TEUs were handled in July (+8.5%)
Hapag-Lloyd reports second quarter increases of +2.0% in revenues and +12.4% in containers transported by the fleet
Hapag-Lloyd reports second quarter increases of +2.0% in revenues and +12.4% in containers transported by the fleet
Hamburg
Net profit fell by -39.4%
Evergreen reports an 18.7% drop in quarterly revenues
Taipei
The April-June period closed with a net profit decrease of -62.9%
South Korean company HMM's revenues fell by 1.5% in the second quarter.
Seoul
Trump announces rejection of IMO's shipping decarbonization program
Washington
The proposed framework - it is denounced - is in effect a global carbon tax that affects Americans and is imposed by an irresponsible United Nations organization.
Taiwanese companies Yang Ming and Wan Hai Lines reported negative results in the second quarter.
Taiwanese companies Yang Ming and Wan Hai Lines reported negative results in the second quarter.
Keelung/Taipei
In the period April-June, revenues decreased by -26.5% and -8.7% respectively
Cruise traffic at Global Ports Holding terminals grew by 6.0% in the second quarter
Istanbul
In the first six months of 2025, an increase of +16.7% was recorded
In the period April-June, cargo traffic in Croatian ports decreased by -4.0%
Zagreb
Cruise passengers grow by +5.4%
Container traffic at US ports is expected to plummet in the second half of this year.
Washington/Long Beach
In July, the Port of Long Beach handled 944,000 TEUs (+7.0%)
ThyssenKrupp shareholders approve spin-off of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems
Eat
The company will be listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
WTO: Measured responses have cushioned the impact of tariffs in 2025, but risks remain high for 2026.
WTO: Measured responses have cushioned the impact of tariffs in 2025, but risks remain high for 2026.
Geneva
Global trade in goods is expected to grow by 0.9% this year
Hupac will increase the number of weekly rotations between Busto Arsizio and Basel from five to eight
Noise
Increase in attendance from September 1st
From January 1st, new bunkering regulations will apply in the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp.
Rotterdam
The barges must be equipped with flow meters
Maersk reports higher quarterly revenue, lower earnings
Maersk reports higher quarterly revenue, lower earnings
Copenhagen
Terminals and logistics have made a positive contribution. Container shipping benefits from demurrage revenues.
The CIPESS has approved the final project for the bridge over the Strait of Messina.
Rome
Construction will begin this year and the project will be completed in 2032.
DHL Group revenues fell by 3.9% in the second quarter
DHL Group revenues fell by 3.9% in the second quarter
Bonn
Significant reduction in shipments from China and Hong Kong to the US due to Trump's abolition of the de minimis regime
The Grendi group has acquired 70% of Dario Perioli Spa
The Grendi group has acquired 70% of Dario Perioli Spa
Milan
The remaining 30% will remain with Fingiro, owned by Michele Giromini, the company's CEO.
BigLift Shipping and CY Shipping order two additional heavy lift vessels
Amsterdam
Order placed at Chinese shipyard Jing Jiang Nanyang Shipbuilding Co.
The Charthage ferry was placed under administrative detention in the port of Genoa
Genoa
A Coast Guard inspection found numerous deficiencies
Disney Cruise Line's largest ship's debut delayed by three months
Lake Buena Vista
Construction delays force the maiden voyage to be postponed until March 10th.
Shell to supply liquefied biomethane to Hapag-Lloyd containerships
Hamburg
Agreement effective immediately
Andrea Zoratti has been appointed general manager of Hub Telematica
Genoa
The company is controlled by Assagenti and Spediporto
Jotun and Messina sign agreement to improve the environmental and commercial performance of ships.
Genoa
The "Jolly Rosa" vessel will use the Hull Skating Solutions solution
PSA Genova Pra' announces the hiring of 25 people dedicated to container handling.
Genoa
Ferrari: International markets have changed profoundly
CMA CGM will not apply surcharges for new US taxes on Chinese vessels and Chinese services
Marseille
The rates announced by the USTR in April will apply from October 14th.
South Korean HJ Shipbuilding wins orders for four 8,850 TEU containerships
Busan
Orders with a total value of approximately 461 million dollars
Conference: "Waiting and Delays in Road Transport: Logistics in Check"
Genoa
Organized by Trasportounito, it will be held on September 26th in Genoa
GNV has inaugurated a new office in Barcelona
Barcelona
The company currently has 52 employees throughout Spain.
Port of Trieste: EU funding for two new projects
Trieste
Resources with a total value of 1.7 million euros
Filt Cgil, the Flotilla incident is serious. Dockworkers are ready to mobilize.
Rome
Union announces action if aid is not allowed to reach Gaza
SAILING LIST
Visual Sailing List
Departure ports
Arrival ports by:
- alphabetical order
- country
- geographical areas
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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