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Contship Group

Contship Italia Group is an opertaor in container terminal logistics and intermodal solutions. Its network includes maritime container terminals in La Spezia, Ravenna, Salerno, and Tangier, together with Sogemar’s subsidiaries active in the business of intermodal integrated solutions. Contship Italia S.p.A. is part of Eurokai – Hamburg.

Caglari port’s container traffic declines, operators launch downsizing

Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) March 25, 2019 – Italian company Iterc SRL, an operator assisting the handling of containers at Cagliari port, plans to launch...

Reggio Calabria entrepreneurs place bid to acquire stake in Gioia Tauro’s MCT

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 18, 2019 – A group of entrepreneurs from Reggio Calabria presented a formal offer to buy shares of Medcenter...

Marsa Maroc agrees to sell MINTT to Eurogate, Contship Italia

Tangier, Morocco (Ports Europe) March 18, 2019 – Marsa Maroc has signed an agreement with Eurogate International GmbH and Contship Italia S.p.A to acquire an...

Contship in talks to sell 50% in Gioia Tauro port’s container terminal operator

Press Release – Contship Italia S.p.A. has entered into negotiations for sale of MCT – March 15, 2019 Contship Italia S.p.A. has entered into...

Italy suspends process for termination of Contship’s Gioia Tauro port concession

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 14, 2019 – Italy’s Ministry of Infrastructure & Transport (MIT) has received a list of commitments by Gioia...

Cagliari port’s container traffic continues to decline

Cagliari, Italy (Ports Europe) March 13, 2019 – The container terminal of the industrial port of Cagliari continues to experience a period of crisis —...

Gioia Tauro port launches proceedings for termination of MCT concession

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 28, 2019 – Gioia Tauro port has communicated to the shareholders of the Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT)...

Italy to deliver formal notice to MCT for breaches in Gioia Tauro port concession

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 26, 2019 – Italy’s government plans to shortly send a formal notice to Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT)...

Metrika to support Contship Italia’s intermodal services marketing

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 21, 2019 – Contship Italia SpA has picked Metrika SRL, a digital marketing and communication services consultancy...

MCT promises €120 million investment in Gioia Tauro port

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 19, 2019 – Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) has suspended the redundancy schemes and announced investments of...

Italy’s Marini – Fayat exports asphalt plant via Ravenna port

Ravenna, Italy (Ports Europe) February 14, 2019 – The Ravenna terminal of Contship Italia Group was chosen for the shipment of an oversize cargo, the latest...

Contship’s Melzo RHM rail terminal set to receive trains from Chengdu in China

Milan, Italy, January 24, 2019 The first westbound train connecting RHM terminal in Melzo with China, operated by FELB, left Chengdu on Saturday January 26,...

Ocean Alliance, The Alliance launch new service at La Spezia port

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) December 11, 2018 – Ocean Alliance and The Alliance started their joint service on the Mediterranean-USA route at La...

FELB to launch freight rail service linking Italy to China’s Chengdu

Melzo, Italy (PortSEurope) December 6, 2018 – Austria-based company Far East Land Bridge (FELB) plans to launch a freight rail service connecting the Melzo...

New record for rail operations in La Spezia

La Spezia, November 28, 2018 Over the last three years, the number of trains in and out of the terminal, including those handled at the Santo Stefano Magra...

Delegation from Zhuhai city visits Contship’s La Spezia Container Terminal

La Spezia, Italy (PortSEurope) October 30, 2018 – On October 26, 2018, a delegation from the Chinese city of Zhuhai visited La Spezia, attending...

Companies join AdSP-Contship EU intermodal project meeting in Milan

Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) October 11, 2018 – A number of companies from eight member states have participated in an Intermodal EU project meeting at...

Contship Italia starts dock overhaul project at Gioia Tauro port

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) October 4, 2018 – Contship Italia has started work on the redevelopment of Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), its Gioia...

UilTrasporti Sardegna produces report that criticises Cagliari Canal port

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) September 22, 2018 – The transport union, UilTrasporti Sardegna, has made public a dossier which analyses that...

La Spezia port and Contship Italia delegation visits New York

La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) September 13, 2018 – At the Italian Trade Agency, the Secretary General of Autorita’di Sistema Portuale del Mar Ligure...

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