Piraeus - Ferries will remain moored at Greek ports on Monday,3 September, after the union representing the country’s seamen called a 24-hour strike following fruitless talks with ship operators to renew a collective pay agreement
London - A significant increase in trade volumes can be seen following on from the lifting of US sanctions in January 2016. A seasonal pattern can be observed in ton-mile exports post January 2016, with total volumes rising in the Autumn months in preparation for higher Winter demand
Ploce - A tanker loaded with oil rammed into a dock in the Croatian Port of Ploce, causing significant damage that left the port’s liquid cargo terminal inoperable. According to local media, the tanker smashed into the dock causing a portion of the quay wall and the unloading infrastructure to fall into the sea and sink
Madrid - Hundreds of people were hurt, five seriously, when a wooden platform collapsed at a seaside music festival in northwestern Spain on Sunday night, state television RTVE reported. There were no reports of any fatalities from the incident
Genoa - Should current disruptions persist, and in the face of a lack of remedial plans, starting September 15, Catalan airline Volotea, the main operator at the Genoa airport, will be obliged to suspend all ticket sales and flight operations in Italy
THIS past year in Slovenia, there has been a debate on the upgrading of the Divača-Koper rail line. The project, because of its high cost, has been held hostage by the political clash between the majority and the opposition. Suffice it to say that several referendums have been held to stop the project
Genoa - The overall earnings of Italian municipalities that participate in tourism is close to 132 billion euro. The places chosen by Italian and foreign tourists pepper the peninsula, and number 2,821 in total, ranging from seaside, mountains, hills, lakes and spa locations, to towns renowned for their artistic and religious heritage
Rome - “SNCF Voyages Italia must not evade its responsibility for the non-application of the national collective agreement for mobility, railway activities area.” FILT-CGIL, FIT-CISL and FAST-CONFSAL are demanding it
Naples - A great deal of fear, but luckily no one was injured in the collision that occurred this morning off the coast of Castellabate, in the Cilento Sea, between a sailboat and a hydrofoil on the service linking the coastal resorts
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Paris - Weather-hit cereal harvests in Europe will lead to tight wheat supplies in 2018/19 and leave the region reliant on record imports of maize to feed its livestock herd, analyst firm Strategie Grains said. Drought and heatwaves since late spring have withered crops in northern Europe
Brussels - The European Union said it was delivering on a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump to buy more U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) on Thursday but called on Washington to do more to make its prices competitive
Pavia - Ten thousand books to be moved in one shift, ‘weekly’ contracts renewed for years, 200 hours of overtime per month, systematic violations of every labour right. These were, according to 300 workers’ stories, the working conditions reported by a study into ‘caporalato’, a kind of illegal job brokerage
Milan - “Passengers are asked not to give money to the beggars. Gypsies: get off at the next stop, because you’re breaking our balls.” This message, delivered by a female voice over the Tannoy, was heard yesterday by the passengers onboard the regional 2653 train, the 12.20 from Milan stopping at Cremona and Mantua
Genova - Another desertion, the sixth, from the board of directors of Banca Carige. Lucia Venuti, a 54-year-old lawyer from Massa, has left the board and has added her name to Malacalza’s list. Venuti justified the choice “in light of the events that have taken place recently”
London - Weak consumer confidence in the UK and sluggish retail demand in Germany have dragged down freight volumes between Asia and Europe during the first half of the year, despite a generally bright picture for demand elsewhere, according to a new report from Drewry
Genoa - Foodora’s announcement that it is leaving Italy is not a setback to the growth of delivery riders, the modern, poorly paid and very little protected pony-express employees who deliver things like meals by bicycle
Genova - “Certain types of transport have no alternative, it is hypocritical to think we can avoid using road vehicles.” This is the opinion expressed by Maurizio Longo, leader of TrasportoUnito, the national association of professional hauliers
Genoa - On the day of the meeting for the response to the ECB, which rejected the plan to conserve the bank’s assets in July, but also on the day of the likely approval of the start of exclusive negotiations for the sale of the first tranche of UTP, Carige received a rating cut from Moody’s
Rome - The Italian government is moving towards a revision of the port law, which will be in the pipeline starting in the fall, probably in September or October. The path is not easy: the ports and regions that have moved along with the Delrio reforms of 2016 may not be in such a hurry to change things
Genoa - About two and a half years after the accident of April 17, 2016, when a leak on a pipeline created a massive spill of crude oil that led to the suspension of all refining activity for 6 months (the longest in the company’s history), IPLOM has – since the full recovery of industrial activity, signed an agreement with banks
Genoa - The board of directors of Banca Carige has lost its fifth member, but the market is rewarding the stock, which closed with a jump of 9.2% to 0.0095, after the half-year figures were approved last Friday - 20 million in the red, but an improvement compared to a year ago, and in view of the shareholders’ meeting
Grado - The search for 300 kilos of TNT which disappeared in the upper Adriaticoff the coast of Grado has been suspended. Despite the use of underwater personnel, sonar, and other specialized equipment, there is no sign of the explosives
Rome - But really: “if you want to bring tourists to Italy, you have to have a flag carrier.” This is what Matteo Salvini said yesterday, when interviewed by Alberto Mattioli for the Secolo XIX. Silvio Berlusconi had already said that too in 2008
Rome - The government’s plan to relaunch Alitalia is taking shape. The idea is an “all-Italian” solution, which can safeguard jobs and re-establish the country’s flag carrier. No more 51%, as initially envisaged. The positions of the Lega and the Five Star parties are in fact increasingly in favour of this project
Rome - The history of ILVA is looking more and more like a chain of continual ‘stop and go´, and the action has now stopped yet again. The attempt to restart the process at MISE failed because of the unchanged and distant positions of the purchasing company
Berlin - German government wants to be able to intervene in investments and takeovers if an investor outside the European Union acquires a shareholding of at least 15% in a German company, a newspaper reported on Tuesday
DUBAI/ABU DHABI - Creditors of Stanford Marine Group (SMG), which has links to troubled private equity firm Abraaj, are in talks with three potential buyers, sources familiar with the matter say. Banks are overseeing control of Dubai-based SMG after it failed to meet the terms of its debt obligations
Taranto - Port Network Authority of the Ionian Sea (PNAIS), the managing institution of the Port of Taranto, expressed a first positive evaluation about Yilport Holding’s proposal concerning the concession of the container terminal of the Port of Taranto, and PNAIS has officially published it today
Washington D.C. - Fincantieri Marine Group announced today that, following a successful six year tenure as the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer, Francesco Valente has announced his intention to step down from the position to assume another leadership role within the Fincantieri group
CAIRO – The first ship to arrive at the Libyan port since 2012 bore an Italian name; and with it the resumption of Tripoli Port’s sea traffic. The news appeared in the online media source The Libya Observer. The docking of the Grande Sicilia, which sailed from Belgium with 1,457 vehicles on board, took place on Wednesday
Rome - Fifteen months of receivership has made it possible for Alitalia to improve its balance sheet. In the first half of the year, revenues from online ticket sales increased by 19.7% compared to the first half of 2017. In the traditionally difficult month of July, Alitalia achieved 99.6% regularity
Genoa - Aurelia S.r.L, the financial holding company of the Gavio family, and French investment fund Ardian have inked the final contract in a strategic partnership aimed at strengthening the ASTM-Sias group in the infrastructure sector
Genoa - Carige is back in the red for the first half of the year, and its board of directors has lost Vittorio Malacalza, the bank’s largest shareholder, who announced his resignation at the shareholders’ meeting and made it effective yesterday
Rome - Ridiculous delays of over 30 hours; travellers stranded at the airport without explanation; last-minute cancellations. It was a difficult start to the summer for those who chose to travel by plane. That’s why the the Civil Aviation Authority decide to open an investigation into four carriers
Genoa - Carige’s Board of Directors, which experienced an irreparable rupture between shareholder Malacalza and the company’s CEO Paolo Fiorentino, met to approve balance sheets for the first half of the year and to respond to the letter in which the ECB censured its governance
Rome - The first 33 new “intelligent” coils transport wagons have entered service, strengthening the Mercitalia Rail fleet (FS Italiane Group). The wagons are used for the transport of rolls of sheet metal (coils) produced by the most important Italian and European steel companies
Marina di Carrara - The new MDC terminal in Marina di Carrara starts up with the arrival of two 350-tonne carrying capacity cranes. “It is the beginning of a new era at the port,” said the chairman of the Port System Authority of the Eastern Ligurian Sea, Carla Roncallo
Genova - In the first half of 2018, the port of Genoa’s six dry docks hosted 40 ships versus 27 in the first half of 2017; however, the length of their stays has decreased, bringing the percentage usage of the tanks down from 83 to 68%
Genova - With 1,126,089 containers handled from January to June 2018, the port of Genoa has recorded 5.7% more than the 1,065,000 TEUs it achieved in the first half of 2017, confirming that it is the driving force in the city’s economy
Amsterdam - The Port of Amsterdam has announced that it will double the Environmental Ship Index (ESI) discount for vessels powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG). Previously, for some years, the Port had been giving discounts to vessels that had attained an ESI score of 20 points or higher
Milan - Boutique financial firm SC Lowy said on Wednesday it had bought a $160 million bad loan portfolio from Italian state-owned bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena in one of the country’s largest shipping debt sales. SC Lowy entered the Italian market in April by buying a 90 percent stake in small lender Credito di Romagna
Shanghai - Spot rates for shipping containers from Asia to northern Europein the week ending Friday rose 7.3% to US$926 per TEU, according to the Shanghai Containerised Freight Index (SCFI). Asia-Mediterranean trade grew 2.8% to $893 per TEU
Rome - “A potential deal is important to us, as it would increase the size of the pie.”Thus Alessandro Profumo, CEO of defence contractor Leonardo, once more commented favourably on the proposed ship building merger
Rome - «Experience, efficiency and ethics». They’re the three E-words chosen by Italy’s Minister of Transport, Danilo Toninelli who posted on Facebook the news of changes in the upper echelons of Ferrovie dello Stato. Enter two new “excellent internal managers”
Rome - Renewed commitments on the environmental front regarding Ilva. They were offered by ArcelorMittal in the institutional summit, with some sixty stakeholders in attendance, between local bodies, associations and committees, held at Italy’s Ministry of Economic Development (MISE)
Rome - An acceleration on the coverage of raw materials storage facilities and a reduction in CO2 emissions. These are some of the environmental commitments in the addendum proposed by ArcelorMittal and presented today at the ILVA meeting at MISE
Beijing - Chinese companies have participated in the construction and operation of a total of 42 ports in 34 countries under its Belt and Road initiative launched five years ago, according to China’s Ministry of Transport as quoted by the Global Times
Paris Bio-Uv Group, the France-based manufacturer of the BIO-SEA ballast water treatment system and other ultraviolet-based water treatment technologies, has announced its initial public offering (IPO) has been approved on the Paris Euronext Growth market
Foftahammar - The Panama-flagged car carrier “Makassar Highway” ran aground in the Tjust archipelago, off the coast of Loftahammar, Sweden in the morning hours of July 23. An undisclosed amount of oil leaked from the vessel following the incident
Baden - The 21,000+ TEU (20-foot equivalent unit) COSCO Shipping “Universe” has broken the record for China’s largest container ship and is equipped with ABB turbochargers to assure optimal performance and fuel efficiency