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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.

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...

Ignazio Messina acquisition of Terminal San Giorgio approved

Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) May 29, 2024 – The Italian Competition Authority (Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato) has authorised Ignazio...

Asyaport is top TEU transit port in Turkey in Q1 24

Tekirdag, Turkey (Ports Europe) May 7, 2024 – In January-March 2024, Asyaport handled 545,509 TEU containers, compared with 361,404 TEU in the same...

TIV Terminal concession, Venice, renewed for 25 years

Venice, Italy (Ports Europe)- April 25, 2024 – Terminal Intermodale Venezia (Tiv) has had its concession renewed for 25 more years until 2050. After...

MSC launches bid to buy Gram Car Carriers

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) – April 25, 2024 – MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. has offered to purchase Gram Car Carriers (GCC), which...

Trieste Marine Terminal: TEU traffic – March 2024

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 15, 2024 – The Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT) handled 56,459 containers (TEU) in March 2024. This compares with...

Complaint about HHLA-MSC deal sent to European Commission

Hamburg, Germany (Ports Europe) April 15, 2024 – The plan for MSC to buy a 49.9% stake in Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) remains controversial....

New container terminal in Port of Trieste inches forwards

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 9, 2024 – On April 3, 2024, the Conference of States and Regions ratified the draft decree of the Ministry of...

MSC holds talks with Port of Gioia Tauro

Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe)- April 5, 2024 – MSC – Mediterranean Shipping Company owner Gianluigi Aponte and President Andrea Agostinelli,...

Piraeus-based Nemeca Z receives new multipurpose harbour tug

Piraeus, Greece (Ports Europe) April 3, 2024 – Piraeus-based Nemeca Z has received a new 25m multipurpose harbour tug, Dias Z, built by Med Marine at...

MSC receives license for ZAL business in Port of Valencia

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe)- April 2, 2024—The City Council of Valencia has granted MSC-Mediterranean Shipping Company a licence to construct an...

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