La Spezia on a Swiss roll

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Swiss shippers and forwarders are increasingly interested in routing more of their Far East imp/ex flows over La Spezia instead of a North C...

Contship Italia up 19%

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Contship Italia Group’s marine terminal container business grew 19% last year to 5.174M TEU....

New life breathed into old cranes

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Italy-based MGM-OMG has been noted during the past 10 tears for its crane revamping and modernisation work. It has carried out several major...

FuoriMuro to expand operations

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FuoriMuro, which has hitherto been limited to rail shunting and train formation operations within the Port of Genoa, has obtained a safety c...

Safety “first” at La Spezia

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Contship Italia SpA (Eurogate group) is testing a new bi-directional, RFID obstacle detection system from TP Srl at La Spezia Container term...

Interporti developments

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After a gap of 15 years, a new container block train service has been started by Italcontainer for Hangartner between the Port of La Spezia ...

Optimise and integrate

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Opinions differ over how terminals should use IT to optimise their operations and integrate with the supply chain....

P&ONL’s Genoa sting

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PSA Sinport’s Voltri Terminal Europa (VTE) in Genoa and P&ONL have firmed up the deal whereby the carrier gets a 30 per cent stake in the ...

…Orlandi moves into La Spezia

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Cirillo Orlandi, the first managing director and originator of VTE (it was he who persuaded Fiat Impresit to invest in its own multiuser con...