Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC)
Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. is an international shipping line founded by Gianluigi Aponte in Italy in 1970, with headquarters in Switzerland since 1978. The privately held company is owned by the Aponte family. It is now a leading, global shipping, logistics and port terminal operator. Its port terminal division is called Terminal Investment Limited (Til). MSC Cruises is a subsidiary in the cruise liner industry.
Castellón, Casablanca ports to intensify cargo exchange
Castellón, Spain (PortSEurope) June 27, 2019 – Castellón and Casablanca ports will sign cooperation agreements after the meeting between the heads of both...
Banca d’Italia looks at future of Gioia Tauro port
Rome, Italia (PortSEurope) June 18, 2019 – Banca d’Italia has published the annual report “The Economy of Calabria”, the region of...
Marseille port gives ESI Awards to environmental shippers
Marseille, France (PortSEurope) June 17, 2019 – On Wednesday, June 12, 2019, Hervé Martel, President of the Executive Board of the Port of Marseille...
MSC to acquire 49% stake in Gruppo Messina
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) June 14, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), through its subsidiary Marinvest, plans to acquire a 49% stake in the...
Gioia Tauro port officially welcomes the new terminal operator
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) June 9, 2019 – Swiss-based MSC – Mediterranean Shipping Company, the new terminal operator of the port of Gioia...
Leading global shipping companies discuss Black Sea container hub
Odessa, Ukraine (PortSEurope) June 5, 2019 – During the Ukrainian Ports Forum 2019 being held in Odessa, Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA)...
TIL proposes to invest €1,011 million to build and operate entire container terminal of Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 30, 2019 – Terminal Investment Limited (TIL) has submitted a bid for the construction and operation of the new terminal...
Greece’s Med Tugs signs agreement with MSC, CMA CGM, Hapag Lloyd
Piraeus, Greece (PortSEurope) May 29, 2019 – Greek tugboat owners consortium Med Tugs has signed a contract to provide services to the Mediterranean...
Gioia Tauro optimistic with start of port developments
Gioia Tauro, Italy (PortSEurope) May 17, 2019 – Gioia Tauro Port Authority commissioner, Andrea Agostinelli, has reported a number of developments which...
MSC ratifies Gran Canaria port plan
Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) May 15, 2019 – The shipping company Mediterranean Shipping Company SA (MSC) and Autoridad Portuaria de...
Maersk and MSC to relocate operations away from Malta’s Freeport
Freeport, Malta (PortSEurope) May 14, 2019 – Malta Freeport has said that the shipping companies Maersk and MSC plan to reduce their operations at...
MSC places sole bid in tender for Valencia port’s northern expansion
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 10, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has submitted an offer for the construction and operation...
GIC acquires a 10% stake in Terminal Investment Limited
Singapore (PortSEurope) May 8, 2019 – GIC Private Limited, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, has acquired a 10% interest in Terminal Investment...
MSC becomes majority shareholding in Spain’s Laumar
Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) May 8, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the second largest shipping company for container traffic in the world...
MSC leads container ranking in Vigo port in 2018
Vigo, Spain (Ports Europe) April 10, 2019 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) led for the first time in 2018 the movement of containers at...
MSC executive director for Europe to change position
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) April 8, 2019 – The executive director for Europe of the MSC – Mediterranean Shipping Company, Maurizio Aponte, will...
MSC, Grimaldi to use hydrogen-powered loading machines at Valencia port
Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) April 8, 2019 – The MSC and Grimaldi Group terminals of Valencia port will use two hydrogen-powered machines to load and...
Calabria’s Gioia Tauro port misses a role in the new Silk Road
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) March 26, 2019 – President of the Calabria Region Mario Oliveiro has written to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte,...
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...
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...