Ports in a sea of change

The partnership will facilitate seamless door-to-door transportation services across the entire market, enhancing efficiency and reducing carbon emissions.

Gruppo Grendi, the shipping, ports operator and logistics company, logged sales of €68.6M in 2021, 19% more than in the previous year. This partly reflected some recovery in passenger traffic on its Marina di Carrara-Olbia service and the success of the ro-ro freighter liner service introduced between Marina di Carrara and Olbia last year.

Investments from new and existing players are having an effect, but there are still problems to overcome.

A public tender issued by Italian rail network manager RFI for the design and supply of three dual-fuel (LNG/MDO) fast ferries for passenger transport in the Strait of Messina has not elicited a single offer from the market.

Italy’s Port Authority System for the Eastern Sea of Sicily (Ad-SPdMdSO) has issued a public tender for the dismantling and removal of two STS cranes in the Port of Augusta. Sealed bids must be submitted by 5 April and the AdSP will open them on 12 April.

Hutchison Ports’ ECT Rotterdam (ECT) has disclosed that in January it signed an order for three very large, remote control STS cranes with Sany Europe, part of Sany Heavy Industries of Changsha, China. This is ECT’s first ever order for Sany cranes