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.
MSC Nicola Mastro brings 9,500 TEU to Port of Gioia Tauru
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) August 28, 2023 – The MSC Nicola Mastro container ship has visited the southern port of Gioia Tauro and a record 9,500...
Port of La Spezia receives first 24,000 TEU vessel
La Spezia, Italy (Ports Europe) August 10, 2023 – The Port of La Spezia has received the MSC Nicola Mastro, the first 24,000 TEUs container ship to touch...
Musical chairs for port cranes at TiL terminals
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) August 7, 2023 – Terminal Investment Limited (TiL), majority owned by MSC – Mediterranean Shipping Company, the...
MSC withdraws interest in Terminal Darsena Toscana, Livorno
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) August 2, 2023 – The international logistics group MSC has withdrawn its interest in acquiring Terminal Darsena...
Trieste Marine Terminal sees first-half traffic down -3.2%
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) July 24, 2023 – Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) handled 365,919 TEUs in the first six months of 2023, down -3.2% on the same...
Trieste Marine Terminal sees container traffic down in May
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) July 11, 2023 – Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) handled 54,878 containers (TEU) in May 2023, down from 64,987 TEU on April...
Ignazio Messina & C acquires Terminal San Giorgio, Genoa
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) July 5, 2023 – Ignazio Messina & C. spa will acquire Terminal San Giorgio (TSG). The terminal is owned 51% by the...
TiL MSC orders 9 gantry cranes for Le Havre port
Le Havre, France (Ports Europe) May 23, 2023 – TiL MSC has ordered nine new electric gantry cranes for its TPO/TNMSC container terminals in the Port of...
New rail service links Port of Trieste with Kapfenburg, Austria
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 17, 2023 – A new rail service has started linking the Port of Trieste with the Austrian intermodal terminal Montan...
Trieste Terminal Passeggeri triples profit in 2022
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 13, 2023 – Trieste Terminal Passeggeri (TTP) has ended 2022 with a profit of €4.4 million which almost triples the...
Trieste Marine Terminal handled 185,921 TEU, up +3.3% in Q1 2023
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) April 11, 2023 – Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) handled 185,921 containers (TEU) inQ1 2023, up +3.3% on the same period of...
Analysis: Black Sea Container market overview 2022
Odessa, Ukraine (Informall/PortSEurope) April 3, 2023 – The Black Sea region has witnessed a considerable decline in its container market volumes, with...
Turkey’s Marport received $200 mln in financing from IFC
Istanbul, Turkey (PortSEurope) March 31, 2023 – Marport Liman İşletmeleri Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. is to receive a $200 million financing package...
Icop wins Trieste Marine Terminal construction contract
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) March 9, 2023 – Icop has won the contract for the executive design and the execution of all the works of the first section...
New MSC connection serving Egypt via TMT
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) March 8, 2023 – Starting last month, Trieste Marine Terminal (TMT) started a new connection operated by MSC –...
MSC receives approval for Trieste Marine Terminal takeover
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) February 22, 2023 – The Competition and Market Authority has approved MSC as the new controlling shareholder in Trieste...
DB Schenker signs biofuel contract with MSC
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) February 16, 2023 – DB Schenker has signed a contract to use 12,000 metric tons of biofuel component for all of its own...
Gioia Tauro’s MCT receives three mega cranes
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) February 13, 2023 – The MedCenter Container Terminal (MCT) in the port of Gioia Tauro has received three mega cranes...
MSC to restart DRAGON service
Naples, Italy (Ports Europe) February 10, 2023 – MSC is to restart its DRAGON service that will connect Asia to Israel, Italy and South of France, and...
Maersk and MSC to discontinue 2M alliance in 2025
Joint press statement by MSC and Maersk – January 25, 2023 MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) and Maersk A/S, an entity under A.P. Moller –...