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.
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 –...
Terminal operators seek more space in Gioia Port
Gioia Tauro, Italy (Ports Europe) January 24, 2023 – Terminal operators are seeking more space for cargo in Gioia Port, according to Andrea Agostinelli,...
Global Ports Holding announces group strategic review
London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) January 16, 2023 – Global Ports Holding Plc (GPH), a leading independent cruise port operator, announced last...
Trieste Marine Terminal see container handing up +15.8% in 2022
Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) January 12, 2023 – Last year, Trieste Marine Terminal’s container terminal (Molo VII) handled 755,932 containers...
MSC’s Terminal Investment acquires Terminal Darsena Toscana, Livorno
Livorno, Italy (Ports Europe) January 10, 2023 – MSC’s Terminal Investment (TiL) division will acquire Terminal Darsena Toscana (TDT) in Livorno...
MSC consortium proposes Port of Genoa logistics hub
Genoa, Italy (PortSEurope) December 15, 2022 – A consortium of MSC Group, Ignazio Messina & C., Number 1 Logistic and Interglobo is proposing a new...
First customs corridor between two European states from the port of Trieste
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) December 4, 2022 – The first customs corridor between two European states, to be launched by end-January 2023, will connect...
MSC acquires 80% of Trieste Marine Terminal
Trieste, Italy (PortSEurope) November 21, 2022 – International shipping and logistics company MSC has acquired an 80% stake in Trieste Marine Terminal...
MSC to acquire towage operator Rimorchiatori Mediterranei SpA
Genoa, Italy (Ports Europe) October 24, 2022 – Shipping company MSC is to acquire towage operator Rimorchiatori Mediterranei SpA. MSC subsidiary SAS...
MSC to create air cargo division
Geneva, Switzerland (Ports Europe) September 27, 2022 – MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company is to create MSC Air Cargo. MSC says this is a response to...
Hutchison Ports, MSC to invest in Rotterdam port container terminal
Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) September 1, 2022 – Hutchison Ports and MSC Group’s Terminal Investment Limited (TIL) will invest in a new...