VTE takes control of SECH

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Voltri Prà container terminal operator VTE (PSA Sinport) has taken over another Genoa operator, SECH at Calata Sanità in the Sampierdarena...

…tractors for Genoa

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PSA Sinport in Genoa has taken delivery of 20 new CVS Ferrari FYT230 4x2 terminal tractors at VTE Voltri Terminal Europa, as part of the pro...

Kuenz bags Italian deal

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Austria-based Hans Kuenz has booked its first order in the Italian ports market, with a ?3.35M deal for one 45t SWL, 27m span RMG from PSA S...

GIP eyes Livorno stake

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It looks as though Luigi Negri’s Gruppo Investimenti Portuali (GIP), which operates the SECH and VTE terminals in Genoa in conjunction wit...

"Okay" for Genoa share swap deal

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AGCM, the Italian Antitrust Authority, has given the green light to the proposed 40% share swap deal between the Port of Genoa's biggest con...

SECH to revamp old box cranes

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SECH, the GIP company that operates Genoa’s Calata Sanità container terminal, has decided to upgrade and revamp its four oldest Ansaldo (...

Reprieve for Genoa operators

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The troubled multipurpose operations at Sampierdarena in the Port of Genoa have been given a stay of execution to allow time to find a new s...

Revolt over Voltri joint venture

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Six shipping lines - MSC, Zim, CMA CGM, Coscon, Evergreen and K-Line - have written an “open letter” to Italy’s Transport Minister, Al...

VTE in the wars

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2008 got off to a somewhat inauspicious start for the Port of Genoa, with PSA-Sinport’s VTE Voltri concession, the port’s biggest contai...

Ports to get railroaded into shape?

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Trenitalia (FS Cargo) has put the cat among the pigeons. Managing director Mauro Moretti said at a forum organised by the Italian associatio...

No sixth sense in Genoa

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Italy’s highest court (Consiglio di Stato) has rejected a joint appeal by PSA Sinport and the Port of Genoa (APG) against a decision of th...

Messina Lines in Genoa row

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Life in the Port of Genoa is never dull. On top of the dispute between PSA Sinport and Contship Italia over the new berth (Module VI) at Vol...

Row over VTE VIth module

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The long struggle between PSA Sinport and Eurogate’s Contship Italia SpA (CI) for terminal capacity in Genoa (see WorldCargo News May 2005...