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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.

2M launches strategic cooperation with ZIM on Asia-Mediterranean route

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) January 14, 2019 – The 2M shipping alliance, consisting of the container shipping companies Maersk Line and...

Top 10 global container port operators for 2018

London, United Kingdom (PortSEurope) December 24, 2018 – Cosco Shipping Ports (CS Ports) remains the global port operators’ leader in 2018, according...

Haifa container terminal deal with China’s SIPG under review

Haifa, Israel (PortSEurope) December 23, 2018 – The Israeli government is widely believed to be reviewing the March 2015 deal that gives China’s Shanghai...

Almería port to bestow recognition to Cosentino Group’s president

Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) December 20, 2018 – Autoridad Portuaria de Almería (APA – Port Authority of Almería) has approved the bestowing of...

2M Alliance to reduce calls in Gioia Tauro, La Spezia ports in March

Venice, Italy (PortSEurope) December 19, 2018 – Maersk Line and the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) plans to reduce the calls of Asia-Mediterranean...

Valencia Port and Traxens launch pilot internet-of-things project

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 16, 2018 – Traxens, French data and supply chain specialists, is collaborating with the Mediterranean Shipping...

MSC carries out pilot IoT project at Valencia port

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 14, 2018 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has started a pilot project to improve the efficiency of its...

MSC launches Almería-Valencia container line

Almería, Spain (PortSEurope) December 11, 2018 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has signed an agreement with Spanish company Cosentino Group...

MSC takes full control of container depot operator VCD Spain

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) December 6, 2018 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), has became the sole shareholder of Valencia Container Depot...

HMM may leave alliance with MSC, Maersk in 2020

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 4, 2018 – Hyundai Merchant Marine (HMM) may abandon its alliance with the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC)...

MSC to assume full control Bettolo Container Terminal independently in Genoa port

Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) November 27, 2018 – Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) has said it plans to buy out the shares of Gruppo Investimenti...

MSC sets up Trieste port-Giegen rail service

Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 19, 2018 – MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA has announced a new rail connection between Giengen (a.d. Brenz)...

MSC advises Alicante port to focus on North Africa

Alicante, Spain (PortSEurope) November 14, 2018 – The president of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) in Spain, Francisco Lorente, has commented that the...

Grimaldi, MSC Terminals, Eurogate present emissions strategy at GreenPort event in Valencia

Valencia, Spain (PortSEurope) October 19, 2018 – At the GreenPort Cruise & Congress in Valencia port, three terminal operators at Valencia port have...

Sines port linked to China’s Silk Road via new MSC rail link

Sines, Portugal (PortSEurope) October 15, 2018 – MSC-Mediterranean Shipping Company is to launch a new rail service linking Spanish exporters, including...

“MSC Fillippa” becomes largest container ship serviced at Las Palmas port’s OPCSA terminal

Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (PortSEurope) October 15, 2018 – Last week, the “MSC Fillippa” vessel became the...

MSC launches rail freight line linking Seville port to Córdoba

Seville, Spain (Ports Europe) October 11, 2018 – The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), a world leader in transport and logistics, has announced the...

Spediporto members to benefit from extension of delivery vouchers

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 8, 2018 – Spediporto, the association of the Genoese forwarders, is to guarantee an extension of delivery vouchers....

Las Palmas port to reorder container terminal

Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) September 20, 2018 – Las Palmas port plans to invest in its container terminal with the aim of transforming...

Noatum’s Valencia port unit financial performance to keep improving

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) September 18, 2018 – Tension and labour conflicts that the Spanish ports experienced in the first half of last year have not...

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