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News File
January 2020

	31/01/2020	Clean Arctic Alliance denunciation that some marine fuel mixtures VLSFO increase the emissions of black carbon The industry of the naval fuel retort that these fuels turn out to be paraffinici that aromatic and invites the associations enviromentalists to discuss of in center IMO
	31/01/2020	Last year, freight traffic in the port of Zeebrugge increased by 14.2% Containers amounted to 1.7 million teu ,4.8%
	31/01/2020	New intermodal terminal on the border between Hungary, Slovakia and Ukraine It will have an annual traffic capacity of one million containers
	31/01/2020	Brussels approves the creation of a joint venture French CGM and China's CIMC The new company will offer container storage, handling and repair services in the port of Tianjin
	31/01/2020	In 2019, Russian ports handled a record traffic of 840.3 million tonnes, or 2.9% The growth was driven by the rise in liquid bulks
	31/01/2020	Japan's ONE quarterly revenue falls as net profit grows Deterioration of the level of the nols
	30/01/2020	Absorbing, exaggerated and unfounded scaremongering about coronavirus could have devastating effects on the portal system Rossi: useless and harmful to create generalized and unjustified psychosis
	30/01/2020	Last year, freight traffic at Algerian ports increased by 1% Passengers up 2%
	30/01/2020	In mid-2020, Kloosterboer will open a new container reefer terminal in the Dutch port of Vlissingen Initially it will have a capacity of 250 thousand teu
	30/01/2020	Rina Consulting's new headquarters opened in Genoa It is the engineering consulting firm of the RINA Group
	30/01/2020	Laghezza (Confetra Liguria): immediately free the Pontremolese from the laces that have imprisoned her in the list of second-level works The work, he recalled, enjoys the unanimous support not only of the territories and cities directly concerned, but also of the economic world and the environmental planet
	30/01/2020	Marked decrease of the recorded economic results from Wärtsilä Corporation In decided bending also the new acquired orders from the Finnish group
	29/01/2020	DCSA publishes standards for Track & Trace of containerized cargo They can be downloaded freely from the association's website
	29/01/2020	In the port of Genoa, the second railway track has been inaugurated to access the PSA Genoa Pra' terminal By the end of the year the seturbation of the current four tracks of the airport and to follow the expansion of the freight beam and the extension of the tracks to 750 meters
	29/01/2020	Royal Caribbean cancels three cruises to China for coronavirus emergency Possible other measures if travel restrictions are kept in place
	29/01/2020	Ettore Pollicardo appointed president and CEO of the holding company of Bureau Veritas Italia Diego D'Amato is the new president and CEO of BV Italia
	29/01/2020	AdSPs in the Western Ligurian Sea and the North Tyrrhenian Sea will participate in Fruit Logistics Ports of Genoa stand together with C.I.S.CO. (International Container Studies Centre)
	29/01/2020	Costamare's economic results were positive The company has a fleet of 71 container carriers
	28/01/2020	The Genoese company Messina appoints Bergé as a ship agent in Spain The expected volume of activity is about 150 ships per year
	28/01/2020	The ICS advises its associates on measures to prevent the coronavirus from spreading They are based on those provided by the World Health Organization
	28/01/2020	The A.P. Muller Group invests in the development of port and logistics activities in West Africa Acquired 43% of ARISE Ports & Logistics
	28/01/2020	Costa Cruises will make selections to hire cabin crew The company plans to recruit 700 people
	28/01/2020	A sharp reduction in freight traffic in the French port of Boulogne Calais Passengers also fell
	28/01/2020	NYK, TTC and Bolloré sign the agreement to build the new ro-ro terminal in Port Said Harbour It will become operational at the end of 2021
	27/01/2020	Assoporti, the request to apply the ordinary procedure of variant to the PRP even to minor works risks blocking the ports The association stresses the urgent need to implement a deep simplification of administrative procedures
	27/01/2020	In the marine incidents the commander of the ship comes immediately indicted They have denounced taken part to the workshop "the criminalizzazione of the commander of the ship: criticality and perspectives"
	27/01/2020	Creuers of the Port de Barcelona gets the entire ownership of Malaga Cruise Port Acquired 20% of the capital in the hands of the Port Authority of Malaga
	27/01/2020	In 2019, freight traffic in Albanian ports grew by 14.5% In the third quarter, there was an increase of 4.8%
	27/01/2020	New intermodal link Turin - Pescara - Foggia It was organized by the Arcese Group and will be operated by Mercitalia Rail
	27/01/2020	At Bureau Veritas Italy is THE ISO 28000 certification for security in the logistics chain It was released by Accredia, the Italian Accreditation Authority
	27/01/2020	Liebherr will supply four new dock cranes at Montreal Gateway Terminal They will be delivered in the third quarter of 2021
	27/01/2020	Qatari QTerminals and the Risoil-Kherson consortium will operate the Ukrainian ports of Olvia and Kherson The consortium is attended by Georgian Georgian Industrial Group and Swiss Riceil
	27/01/2020	Coronavirus, COSCO Shipping has an observation period for employees who have been to Hubei Province Medical visits also for seafarers before boarding ships
	27/01/2020	Circle and Maps partnerships in the field of intermodal logistics It will begin with the creation of a support system for optimized management of the multi-modal supply chain based on economic parameters
	24/01/2020	In the fourth quarter of 2019, OOCL's fleet transported 1.80 million containers, or 4.8% The business generated revenues of USD 1.60 billion, or 2.3%
	24/01/2020	Note of Fedepiloti and Angopi on the credits due by Sardinian pilots and moorings to Honored Armatori The two organisations are confident that they can give appropriate answers to their associates in a short time
	24/01/2020	Fincantieri strengthens strategic partnership with the QatarI Ministry of Defense Possible orders for other ships
	24/01/2020	Last year the ports of Naples and Salerno have enlivened 1,09 million container (+5.7%) In the solo fourth trimester the containerized trade has been of 279 thousand teu (+1.0%)
	24/01/2020	CSAV halts its fleet of Ro-Ro ships by discontinued direct operation of maritime transport services The Chilean group announced the decision to focus on its investment in container ized company Hapag-Lloyd
	24/01/2020	In 2019, the Russian railway company Russian Railways transported more than five million containers (12.6%) The total containerized cargo amounted to 47.6 million tonnes, or 13.6%
	23/01/2020	Meeting of the Propeller Club of Trieste on the prospects of the Julian port port It will be held on Monday and will also consider the node of the full application of the status of Porto Franco International
	23/01/2020	A study evidences the importance of the Venetian ports in the regional and Italian economic system Used an innovative method in order to calculate induced and the direct and indirect fallen back ones
	23/01/2020	IBIA, the transition to IMO 2020-compliant naval fuels is taking place in a 'surprisingly regular' manner According to the association, any problems were avoided thanks to prior planning by the operators
	23/01/2020	Container traffic at Long Beach Harbor decreased by -5.7% in 2019 December was down -10.3%
	23/01/2020	DB Cargo buys 50 hybrid locomotives It will hire another 50 vehicles of the same type
	23/01/2020	Heavy drop in container traffic in the Maltese port of Marsaxlokk Last year, 2.72 million teu (-18%) were handled
	23/01/2020	Assiterminal starts a season of new initiatives The association leaves with rivisitazione of the logo and the website and program a workshop series
	23/01/2020	The liquidation of the holding company of the Uljanik shipyard in Pula was decided Uncertainty about the possibility of a continuation of the plant's activities
	23/01/2020	COSCO Shipping and CIMC announce the size of expected net income for the 2019 financial year The shipping group expects substantial growth, while the container manufacturer expects a significant decline in the result
	22/01/2020	Confetra urges the Minister of the Interior to immediately reactivate the Table for Legality It is a tool - explains Nicolini - that turned out to be a useful experience for the search for analysis and shared solutions
	22/01/2020	Strike if Tirrenia does not withdraw the decision to close the Naples and Cagliari locations This is announced by Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl and Uiltrasporti
	22/01/2020	The port of Ancona has closed 2019 with a record of the containerized trade Stable the total data of the goods enlivened
	22/01/2020	New cargo rail service between Northern Italy and Northern Europe/Scandinavia It has been activated by Rail Cargo Group and has two weekly rotations
	22/01/2020	The Croatian group DIV will buy the Norwegian shipyard Kleven Verft Synergies with the Croatian naval engineering plant Brodosplit are expected
	22/01/2020	Container traffic in the port of Tanger Med grew by 38% to 4.8 million teu in 2019 Other types of goods are also on the rise
	21/01/2020	Last year, the Maritime Station of Naples welcomed more than 1.36 million cruisers (up 28%) More than 1.5 million passengers are expected in 2020
	21/01/2020	In Brussels, representatives of shipping and finance meet Vettosi (Confitarma): it is necessary to take into account the different aspects of the shipping industry
	21/01/2020	Piacenza agrees with Liguria, Lombardy and Piemonte a protocol of understanding for the development of the logistic relations The agreement is determined to favor the connection between the logistic poles piacentini, the Lombardic and Piedmontese logistic systems and from Liguria harbour system
	21/01/2020	IN the last quarter of 2019, ONE ships carried 1.8 million containers (-2.0%) Volume of cargo transported on Asia-North America routes fell by -7.6%; transport between Asia and Europe increased by 5.9%
	21/01/2020	Last year, cruise traffic in Malta grew by 21.0% In the last quarter, there was a decrease of -12.7%
	21/01/2020	In Savona a public meeting on the theme "The use of LNG in ports between innovation and responsibility" It is organized by Costa Cruises in collaboration with the Municipality of Savona and the AdSP Ligure West
	21/01/2020	DP World will acquire 44% of Swissterminal' Swiss terminalist company The stake will be sold by the Mayer family, which will continue to be the majority shareholder
	21/01/2020	Next Monday will be the last day of trading of Panalpina's shares on the Zurich Stock Exchange The Swiss company was bought by Denmark's DSV
	20/01/2020	InRail is the first Italian railway company to obtain the Unique ERA Certificate It was released by the European Union Agency for Railways
	20/01/2020	Last year, COSCO Shipping Ports' terminals handled 102.8 million containers, or 4.8% Traffic at the group's Chinese terminals grew by 2.0% and foreign terminals by 24.0%
	20/01/2020	MSC Cruises confirmation the option for two ships of class "World" and program with Chantiers de the Atlantique the construction of other four innovative units Undersigned also a memorandum of understanding for the development of another prototype of a new class of ships that use wind energy and other technologies
	20/01/2020	In 2019, for the first time, the volume of goods passing through the Suez Canal exceeded one billion tonnes In December, the total was 88.3 million tonnes, a new record for this month
	20/01/2020	In the 2019 Chinese marine ports they have enlivened 9,19 billion tons of goods (+4.3%), of which 3,85 billion with foreign country (+4.8%) In the solo fourth trimester the passed international cargos through the coastal ports of call are piled to 968,3 million tons (+4.5%)
	20/01/2020	Chilean SAAM will acquire 70% of Intertug's capital The Colombian company has a fleet of 25 tugboats
	17/01/2020	The International Propeller Club Port of Rome was established It's the 25th Italian club
	17/01/2020	"Shipping Meet Industry" will be held on 30 and 31 January in Milan From this year Confetra is the main sponsor of the event
	17/01/2020	Filt, Fit and Uilt, the EU procedure on port taxation risks undermining the national port system Government and parliament - the trade unions urge - show that our country respects competition rules
	17/01/2020	Last year, pirate attacks on ships decreased by 12% The accidents resulted in the death of one seaman and the wounding of seven others
	17/01/2020	CLECAT, ETA, EBU, ESC, FEPORT, GSF, GSA and UIRR ask not to renew Regolamento of exemption for category for the containerized marine consortia They exhort the EU commission to delay the decision of 12 months in order to examine and to estimate other information
	17/01/2020	In 2019, freight traffic in the port of Spezia amounted to 15.9 million tonnes, or 0.6% Containers amounted to 1.41 million teu (-5%)
	17/01/2020	Hapag-Lloyd's agreement with Maersk and MSC for slot rental on 2M ships connecting Asia and Northern Europe It will come into force in March
	17/01/2020	Global Ports Holding is filing to handle cruise traffic in the port of Taranto The business will be located on the San Cataldo Pier
	17/01/2020	Container traffic in the Port of Los Angeles fell sharply by -16.5% in the last quarter of 2019 In the whole of 2019, the airport handled 9.34 million teu (-1.3%)
	16/01/2020	Filt Cgil, for the relaunch of the port of Venice the government respects the commitments on the sludge protocol Colombo: "everything ready for dredging, but nothing moves"
	16/01/2020	The Ftner Cruises orders De Hoop a new river cruise ship The new "Silver Origin" shipping unit has left the Dutch shipyard
	16/01/2020	Yilport Holding will pursue new acquisitions Robert Yildirim: We will try to acquire one or two ports a year
	16/01/2020	Laghezza (Confetra Liguria), not dealing with transport emergencies could have disastrous consequences It is urgent, he stressed, for everyone to take responsibility for these problems, to try to resolve them and to take action in a shared way
	16/01/2020	*Genting Hong Kong, sale operation and leaseback for the Genting Dreamcruise ship* Raised 900 million dollars
	16/01/2020	THE Alliance confirmation the ports of call directed to the ports of Genoa and La Spezia in own Network of services for 2020 South Korean HMM will place side by side the companies Hapag-Lloyd, ONE and Yang Ming
	15/01/2020	Confirmed the suspension of the payment of the royalties of the marinas in dispute with the state The meeting of Confindustria Nautica with the Undersecretary for Tourism Bonaccorsi was positive
	15/01/2020	Unanimous support of the production fabric of the Valencian community to the project for the new container terminal in Valencia The plan was presented by the TIL of the msc shipitis group
	15/01/2020	The Confetra Summit met with Minister De Micheli Nicolini: it is necessary to have permanent and structured institutional places where to develop a daily confrontation between market participants and public decision-makers
	15/01/2020	Container maintenance and repair company Medrepair Italia is based in Gioia Tauro Assigned a shed in the backyard
	15/01/2020	Hoyer and Dupré formed the logistics joint venture Hoyer Bulk LLC Operational activity begins today in the United States
	15/01/2020	Konecranes will restructure the cranes of the Yilport container terminal in the port of Taranto Job for seven ship-to-shore cranes and 16 currently inactive rail portal cranes
	15/01/2020	Last year, China's CMPort port terminals handled 111.78 million containers, or 2.5% Bulk traffic was 449.24 million tonnes (-10.5%)
	15/01/2020	Damen and Gentium will collaborate on the establishment of ship building and repair activities in Bangladesh The Dutch group, together with Blohm Voss and French Thales, will make at least four multirole frigates for the German Navy
	15/01/2020	Container traffic in Hong Kong port fell by -6.3% in 2019 The Chinese airport ranks eighth in the list of the world's first container ports
	14/01/2020	*According to the general lawyer of the Law court EU, the survivors and the relatives of the victims of the shipwreck of the Al Salam Boccaccio 98* they can demand the damages to the RINA** Szpunar considers that the victims of the shipwreck of a ship Panamanian clapper flag can address to the Italian judges
	14/01/2020	Spanish port terminalists reiterate the need to reduce taxation on companies in the sector I also call for an appropriate investment policy
	14/01/2020	Memorandum of Understanding to triple air links between Italy and China The agreement provides for a considerable extension of the previous agreements dating back to 2015
	14/01/2020	The "Livorno Blue Agreement" will be signed on Monday The voluntary agreement aims to mitigate the effects of environmental pollution from maritime traffic
	14/01/2020	In the port of Ancona, preparatory activities are underway for the culling of the 12 Sai silos The intervention will free up an area of 33,000 paintings to be allocated to port activities
	14/01/2020	Naviris, the Fincantieri-Naval joint venture, has become fully operational First board meeting
	14/01/2020	PsA's port container terminals handled a record 85.2 million teu traffic in 2019, up 5.2% In Singapore, the total was 36.9 million teu ,up 1.6%, in the foreign terminals of 48.3 million teu (up 8.1%)
	14/01/2020	CSSC Carnival Cruise Shipping has taken delivery of its first cruise ship The "Atlantic Coast" will be followed by the end of the year the twin "Mediterranean Coast"
	14/01/2020	CSAV increased its stake in Hapag-Lloyd by investing USD 330 million The Chilean group's shareholding rises to almost 30% of the German company's capital
	13/01/2020	José Luis Ebalos confirmed to head the Spanish Ministry of Transport Change of name of the ministry
	13/01/2020	Last year, cruise traffic in the port of Genoa reached a record high There were 2.17 million ferry passengers, or 4.2%
	13/01/2020	In 2019, the port of Singapore, with 37.2 million teu, set its new historic annual container traffic record Containerized cargo fell by -0.6% in terms of weight
	13/01/2020	Dunkirk is the first port French to be able to provide container carriers with electricity from the ground grid The cold ironing system was installed at the Terminal des Flandres
	13/01/2020	Best (Confetra): It is necessary not to waste the opportunity of the Milleproroghe to support logistics "Our sectors, he stressed, need massive investment and incentive policies."
	13/01/2020	The Minister for the South and Territorial Cohesion visited the port of Gioia Tauro Agostinelli: Without the connection to the national network, the railway gateway of the airport remains inactive
	10/01/2020	"The criminalizzazione of the commander of the ship: criticality and perspectives" It is the topic of a convention that will hold on 27 January to Rome
	10/01/2020	In the 2019 port of Amsterdam it has enlivened 86,3 million tons of goods (+6%) Decided decrease of the crocieristi
	10/01/2020	The situation of emergency to the customs office of Genoa Sampierdarena places to risk the marine traffics Denunciation of from Liguria unions of Customs
	10/01/2020	Places under seizure three you ferry of Charon & Tourist The ships would not be able to transport in safety people to reduced mobility
	10/01/2020	Mitsubishi Shipbuilding launches according to new ferry ordered from the Hankyu Ferry The ship, of the tonnage of about 16.300 tons, will be delivered in June
	10/01/2020	Decided contraction of the quarterly traffic of the goods in the port of Koper In the period October-December of 2019 it is dropped of -20,9%
	09/01/2020	Robert Sappio is new president of the Institute of International Container Lessors He is managing director of the American SeaCube Container Leasing
	09/01/2020	For the 2020 Ocean Alliance confirmation the ports of call to the Italian ports of Genoa, La Spezia and Trieste. Suppressed the ports of call directed to Venice Introduced the new net of 39 services of line that will become operating to April
	09/01/2020	In the port of Tallinn it will be constructed to a new terminal cruises It will be completed to July 2021
	08/01/2020	Giuliano Gallanti, former president of the ports of Genoa and Livorno is died Between the numerous assignments, also that of president of the European Sea Ports Organisation
	08/01/2020	Finnlines orders to two new ships ro-pax of the ability to 5.100 linear meters and thousand passengers They will be constructed by the yard Lowers Merchants Jinling Shipyard (Weihai) Co
	08/01/2020	A new intermodal service railway multistop of group SMET connects Orbassano, Verona and Bari It is realized in partnership with CFI - Italian Railway Company
	08/01/2020	Mammoet has completed the acquisition of British the WINGS In the next few months an integration plan will be put into effect in order to reunite the two organizations
	07/01/2020	Unchanged the rates for the transit of the ships in the Suez Canal Increases only for rinfusiere and units LPG. In the 2019 they are journeyed 18,800 ships (+3.9%)
	07/01/2020	The Jolly Palladio ship has transported the means that participate to the rally Dakar 2020 To the end of January vehicles and materials they will be re-embarked on the unit with-ro of Ignazio Messina and C
	07/01/2020	Trasportounito, the haulers to the table for the definition of the new Convention on the marine transports for the Sardinia The union has decided to be extended the state of agitation regarding the Sardinia
	07/01/2020	In the 2019 port of Gioia Tauro it has enlivened beyond 2,5 million container (+8.4%) The resumption has been centralized in the second half of the year
	07/01/2020	The Global consortium Holding Ports - MSC complete Cruises the acquisition of the Goulette Shipping Cruise The society is yielded for about 12 million euros
	07/01/2020	New records of traffic of the goods in the ports of Montreal and Abu Dhabi Marked also the new maximum peaks of containerized trade
	07/01/2020	Today to the MIT an encounter with the haulers on the topic of the increase of the marine hires Longo (Trasportounito): "the time is past due and this because of the total absence of urgent provisions"
	News from the Companies
	06/01/2020	La logistica italiana sceglie Padova e Green Logistics Expo come appuntamento di riferimento del settore Alla Fiera di Padova dal 18 al 20 marzo 2020 l'unico Salone italiano dedicato alla logistica sostenibile
	03/01/2020	The Adani group will buy the Indian port of Krishnapatnam for 1,9 billion dollars The investment in order to buy 75% of the society of the Navayuga that develops the port of call
	03/01/2020	Launched the hull of the new cruise ship Silver Origin It is under construction near the Dutch Shipyard De Hoop
	03/01/2020	In the 2019 ports of Ukraine they have enlivened beyond a million container Increase of +18.5% on the year precedence
	02/01/2020	Roberto is died D' Alexander, president of the port of Genoa in the critics Eighties Left after five years the guide of the CAP, it obtained managing assignments in Agusta, Zanussi, Pirelli and Fiat
	02/01/2020	To November 2019 the traffic of the goods in the ports dl Tyrrhenian Headquarters is diminished of -6,2% In the first eleven months last year an increase of +1.8% is recorded
	02/01/2020	Hupac makes available an application for localization of the trains in real time It includes relative information to estimated time for the withdrawal of cargos near the terminals
	02/01/2020	PSA Genoa Pra', initiative in order to improve the operativity of the terminal to service of the road haulage The phase of experimentation will be activated tuesday