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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.

Rimorchiatori sardi to take over Moby concessions in Sardinia

Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 28, 2024 – Rimorchiatori Sardi will take over the towage concessions held by Moby Spa in the ports where...

MSC Cruises, Explora Journeys to start using smart containers

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) August 28, 2024 – MSC Cruises and Explora Journeys, both part of MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company, will start using smart...

Medcenter Container Terminal receives 18 hybrid straddle carriers, Gioia Tauro

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) August 26, 2024 – The Medcenter Container Terminal has received 18 hybrid straddle carriers from the Swedish company...

Port of Gioia Tauro set to receive cranes from China

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) August 2, 2024 – The Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT) will soon welcome a ship from China carrying four new cranes...

MSC completes the purchase of Italian AlisCargo Airlines

Milan, Italy (Ports Europe) August 1, 2024 – MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. MSC has completed the purchase of the capital of the Italian airline...

Wartsila to transfer its manufacturing site in Trieste, Italy to shipping company MSC

Wärtsilä Corporation, Press release 1 August 2024 In July 2022, technology group Wärtsilä announced a plan to ramp down manufacturing in...

MSC & two Belgian firms to takeover inland Port of Limburg

Genk, Belgium (Ports Europe) July 25, 2024 – The Swiss logistics group MSC, Henri Essers en Zonen Internationaal Transport and Machiels (JM Recycling)...

Port of Castellon saw a +93.5% rise in containers in H1 2024

Castellón, Spain (Ports Europe) July 17, 2024 – The Port of Castellon saw a +93.5% increase in container traffic in the first half of 2024, reaching...

EU Commission receives complaint on HHLA-MSC deal

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) July 17, 2024 – Norbert Hackbusch, speaker on ports for the “die Linke” political party, has submitted a...

Workers support move to MSC from Wartsila in Trieste port

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) July 9, 2024 – Most workers at the Wartsila plant in Trieste support a move to MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A....

Port of Las Palmas receives largest container ship to date

Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain (Ports Europe) July 8, 2024 – The MSC New York, a vessel with a capacity of 16,864 TEU, has been received at the OPCSA...

MSC cancels its first scheduled trip to Odessa since war started

Odesa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) June 27, 2024 – Switzerland-based container operator MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. cancelled the first scheduled...

MSC takes stake in Genoa airport

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) June 27, 2024 – MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. has purchased a 15% stake in Aeroporto di Genova S.p.A. (Christopher...

Alphaliner Top 100 container market ranking

Paris, France (Ports Europe) June 23, 2024 – The June 22, 2024 Alphaliner Top 100 global container market figures list 6,986 active ships, 30,046,280...

Maersk adds fourth vessel to Chornomorsk-Constanta line

Chornomorsk, Ukraine (Ports Europe) June 23, 2024 – The Maersk container service between Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Chornomorsk (Chernomorsk) and...

Hamburg Parliament to hold public hearing on HHLA-MSC proposal

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) June 20, 2024 – The Budget Committee of the Hamburg Parliament will hold a public hearing today on the proposed...

MSC ships will be supplied with shore power in Hamburg port

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) June 20, 2024 – Ships of MSC-Mediterranean Shipping Company will in future be supplied with shore power in Hamburg. MSC...

Hamburg Parliament to vote on HHLA – June 26

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) June 10, 2024 – There remains significant opposition to MSC taking a 49.)% stake in Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG...

Port of Gioia Tauro to demolish three large cranes

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) June 9, 2024 – Three large cranes, no longer used by operator Medcenter Container Terminal (MCT), will be demolished....

Maersk resumes container link with Port of Chornomorsk, Ukraine

Odessa, Ukraine (Ports Europe) June 5, 2024 – The Danish Maersk company has started its first container service using the Port of Chornomorsk since the...

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