Genova - “To take the opportunity provided by the Chinese plan for the new Silk Road, we must institute a free zone in Genoa,” says Riccardo Braggio, the President of ALCE, the Ligurian Association for Foreign Commerce
Genova - Every year,eight million tons of plastic end up in the sea: “It’s the equivalent of one million African elephants jumping in the water as one,” says Francesca Garaventa, a researcher at the Genoese headquarters of Ismar, the CNR’s Marine Science Institute
La Spezia - Global warming not only increases the temperature of the oceansbut also contributes to their acidification, compromising the efficiency of the calcium skeleton processes of many animals, such as corals and molluscs
Milan - Prysmian Group, world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry, announced its partnership with the “Energy Observer”, the world’s first catamaran powered solely by renewable sources, at the Paris Air Show today
Venice - The German company Lokomotion Rail, has introduced a new pair of trains on the freight rail link between Venice and Frankfurt, on behalf of DB Cargo. They were originally meant to be used on the Bologna-Frankfurt line
Taranto - In April this year,the port of Taranto moved 1.8 million tonnes of goods, for a -30.0% decrease from over 2.5 million tonnes in April 2016. Disembarked freight came to 969,000 tonnes (-46.1%) and embarked freight came to 818,000 tonnes (+8.2%)
Genova - It’s more than a recovery, it’s a comeback. After six whole years. Italian boating for the second consecutive year is growing in revenue, doing even better than expected. Yet, to date, the increase has only served to counter the enormous depression that the crisis had produced in the sector
Rome - Those present recount that when the scrutineers emerged with the resultsof the voting process for the new composition of Confitarma’s council, the tension was palpable, and a brief awkward silence ensued: the name Cesare d’Amico was not on the list
Genova - Nine heavily polluted sea sections, one polluted. These are the data that emerged from the 23 samplings that Goletta Verde of the Legambiente group carried out on various sea areas in Liguria, at outlets of streams and rivers: “A slight improvement compared to last year, when we had found 16 polluted points.”
Valencia - Milestone Logistics in Spain announces they are leading an alliancewith four other companies to offer full services in the supply chain. The “360 Alliance”, which offers logistics consulting services, international transport, warehouse logistics and packaging solutions, is led by Milestone Logistics
Barcelona - The general assembly of the Spanish owners’ association Anesco has votedagainst accepting a pre-agreement reached with stevedoring unions, claiming it is anti-competitive and in breach of proposed new government legislation, which the unions oppose. A new proposal will be sent to the trade unions today
“The port of Venice and its development - answers Pino Musolino, the President of the Venice-Chioggia Port System Authority - can contribute in a fundamentally important way, by supporting exports from companies in the region, by contributing to the growth of industry in the North East”
Genova - The business was discussed in anonymous and elegant Swiss offices,but it was the usual smugglers who carried the suitcases full of illegally acquired banknotes and kilograms of gold across the border. The techniques have been refined over time, for example, the organisation arranged SIM cards
Genova - As a result of the increase in the flow of container traffic at the PSA Terminal Voltri-Pra’, from 1 June to 15 September, acceptance hours will be extended at the lorry gate. The summer Monday to Friday operating hours are the following
Vado Ligure - Corsica Ferries presented its industrial plan, news concerning its fleet, and its strategies and employment data to the FIT CISL and Uiltrasporti labour unions. CGIL is meeting with the company on Thursday
Paris - The Paris Airshow opened under bright blue skies on Monday, with a new member of Boeing’s best-selling 737 range set to vie for attention with a potentially huge order for F-35 fighter jets and a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron
Athens - Star Bulk Carriers,a global shipping company focusing on the transportation of dry bulk cargoes, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a Supramax dry bulk carrier from an unaffiliated third party
Barcelona - The latest round of dockworker strikes in Spain has cost the country EUR 110 million (USD 123 million), Spanish Ministry of Public Works said. The dockworkers launched a 48-hour strike on Wednesday, June 14 across Spanish ports after they were unable to reach a deal with employers’ association Anesco
Dhaka - The High Court of Bangladesh has halted the breaking of the floating oil production and storage tanker, “North Sea Producer”, following discovery of radioactive substances aboard the vessel. The radioactive substances accumulated over the years of processing crude oil were found in inside pipes
Genova - “The dredging of the channels to allow MSC’s new cruise ships -which will have greater draughts – entry into the cruise terminal has been called for in the three year Operational Plan for 2019. We will evaluate the time frame, and we are ready to accelerate it.”
Rome - Much ado about nothing. In the end, there will be no rift between the Genoese and everyone else. Yesterday, the wise men who are leading the search for the association’s new president met the “rebel” shipowners in Genoa, those who started the resistance to the choice of Mario Mattioli
Genova - Alpha Maritime Services,Ufo representative in Italy, successfully handled breakbulk shipment to Mexico. A total of 995tns / 1,950 cbm of cargo was shipped from Genoa Port in Italy to Veracruz Port in Mexico for an important client
La Spezia - Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri said it has signed through one of its subsidiaries an agreement for the acquisition of a stake in Isselnord, an Italian company operating in defense-related sectors and in the main industrial branches in the civil sector, specialized in logistic support engineering
Oslo - At Nor-Shipping 2017, researchers with DNV GL released a study that points to the difficulty of reducing the industry’s CO2 output below current levels. The problem is structural: big cargo vessels emit 80% of shipping’s greenhouse gases, but they’re also the industry’s most efficient ships
Antwerp - Steel could be the key to making the Port of Antwerp the next major European cargo hub with a direct rail freight link with China. Port officials signed a cooperation agreement with the Chinese Port of Caofeidian
Genoa - Following its drive to expand in Italy with 35 business centres,Regus is now present in Genoa too. The Belgian company founded by Mark Dixon in 1989 - and present in Italy since 1997 - is opening a 1,300 sqm business centre next week; located in via De Marini, in Genoa’s San Benigno area
Split - Hull 483, the largest square-rigged ship contracted for a Monaco buyer, the company Star Clippers Ltd. was launched today in Shipbuilding Industry Split Inc. There were many representatives of the buyer present at the launching ceremony, while Mrs. Ann Krafft, the wife of the owner of the company Mr. Mikael Krafft
Antwerp - A new record was set in the Deurganck dock in the port of Antwerp Friday morning, June 9, when the “Madrid Maersk” moored there for the first time. With a length of 399 metres and a capacity of 20,568 TEU it is the largest container ship ever to call at the port, the company said
Brussels - European Transport Ministers adopted yesterday conclusions on the priorities for the EU’s maritime transport policy until 2020. The conclusions endorse the content of the so-called “Valletta Declaration” adopted at the informal ministerial conference organised by the Maltese Presidency end of March
Berlin - A Greek debt relief scenario that put back interest payments until 2048 would mean the nation’s euro zone creditors deferring receipt of up to 123 billion euros, according to a forecast by Germany’s Finance Ministry.
London - As the 2020 deadline for the International Maritime Organisation’s (IMO)global sulphur cap on bunker fuels draws closer, Europe’s refiners are now starting to respond. Confirmed as 2020 in October last year, the IMO cap was seen by some as a bridge too far for Europe’s ailing refiners
London - British Airways resumed some flights from Britain’s two biggest airportson Sunday after a global computer system failure created chaos, but hundreds of passengers were still waiting for hours at London Heathrow
Monaco - Scorpio Tankers (STI)is to merge with Navig8 Product Tankers to form one the world’s largest product tanker owning companies. As part of the deal, STI will acquire Navig8’s 27 operating product tankers. The merger is expected to close in the second or third quarter of 2017
Athens - When all has been said and done, the recovery of the dry bulk market is down to a number of factors, with the prevailing one being the significant reduction of the dry bulk fleet’s growth. Thankfully for ship owners, this seems to be evolving to a much more stable trend
Tilbury - A captain of a container ship has apparently committed suicide duringa voyage from New York, United States to Tilbury, the UK, according to Apostleship of the Sea (AoS). The 2,824 TEU “Santa Bettina” was one week into its voyage when the captain apparently took his own life on board
Madrid - Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Gondan has delivered “Dux”, the first dual-fuel tug built in Europe, to Norway’s Østensjø Rederi. Designed by Robert Allan, the state of the art escort vessel is the first tugboat in a series of three that will provide tug services to Statoil at its far-north terminal
Puerto Bolívar - Yilport Holding started investments in Ecuador’s Puerto Bolívar container terminal by installing two mobile harbor cranes. The MHCs arrived on 21 May, and the equipment will be operational by the first week of June, the company said in its press release
Oslo - The stands are being finished, the speakers are en-route, the bars are booked and, fingers crossed, it looks like we’ve even ordered some nice weather for the world’s leading maritime week. Nor-Shipping 2017 is ready to roll, and it’s bigger, better and broader in scope, participation and ambition than ever before.
London - Turkey-based cruise port operator Global Ports Holding (GPH) has listedits initial public offering (IPO) on London Stock Exchange (LSE). The company was officially listed on LSE on May 17. With the pricing of its offer at 740 pence per share, the floatation gives the company a market capitalization of USD 605.7 million
Athens - As ferries remained anchored in Greek ports Thursday for the third day in a row due to a seamen’s strike, the Hellenic Association of Travel and Tourism Agencies (HATTA) hit out at the seamen’s union (PNO) for the protracted action, saying it was holding the Greek tourism sector hostage
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Paris - GTT has received an order from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering(DSME) to equip two LNG carriers with its NO96 GW containment system. DSME shipyard based in Geoje – South Korea – will build the vessels of 173,400 m3 each, on behalf of a European ship-owner
Bruxelles - European shipowners have set out their priorities for Brexit,saying it is a process fraught with many uncertainties and that the current operating climate should be preserved. The European Community Shipowners’ Associations (ECSA)highlights that free movement of goods and people is central to E.U.
Rome - D’Amico International Shipping, the division of the D’Amico Group that operates in the product tanker sector, signed a contract for the sale of a ship, with an annexed lease-back contract. The ship is the Mt “High Fidelity”, a 49.9-tonne deadweight medium-range ship built in 2014
Genova - May 7 2013, at 23:05: while executing the manoeuvre to exit the port of Genoa, the engine of the cargo ship “Jolly Nero” went dead. Something went wrong, gave way, and that big ship smashed into the Control Tower, destroying it, and causing the death of nine people and injuring four
La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT) has recorded its largest ever result in container throughput in the first four months of 2017. Total throughput at the terminal, which is the leading gateway container handling facility in Italy operated by the Contship Italia Group
Athens - Greek seamen and journalists walked off the job Tuesday, a day before a nationwide general strike to protest new austerity measures the government is legislating for in return for more bailout funds. The seamen’s union announced Tuesday afternoon they would extend their strike
Athens - Newbuilding activity is on the rise for a number of reasons,but demand isn’t the sole reason of the recent price hikes, which have been noted from shipbuilders. According to the latest report from shipbroker Allied Shipbroking, “the combination of a push towards higher spec units by shipbuilders”.
Genova - Tuesday 9 May was the day of the inauguration of the new ship services at the PSA Voltri-Pra Terminal. The first is Ocean Alliance’s MED1 - operated by Evergreen, OOCL, CMA, APL and Cosco - which will call at the terminal for the first time with the 14,000-TEU container carrier “Tampa Triumph”
Milan - The offer made by Atlantia for the Spanish group Abertis came in at €16.3 billion. The holding company controlled by the Benetton family is thus aiming to create a “global leader in the transports infrastructure management business,” a giant with 14,000 kilometres of motorways
Siena - The Public Prosecutor’s office in Milan requested that Alessandro Profumoand Fabrizio Viola, the former president and C.E.O. of MPS, and Paolo Salvadori, the former president of the institute’s board of auditors, be put on trial