mediterranean shipping company

 

  • [55][56] MSC Danit[edit] On 16 October 2021, the container ship MSC Danit was boarded in the Port of Long Beach by the United States Coast Guard and National Transportation
    Safety Board marine casualty investigators.

  • [10] History Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) was founded in Naples in 1970 as a private company by seafaring captain Gianluigi Aponte when he bought his first ship, Patricia,
    followed by Rafaela, with which Aponte began a shipping line operating between the Mediterranean and Somalia.

  • [18] In October 2018, MSC decided to charter out the only two car carriers in its fleet (MSC Immacolata and MSC Cristiana)[19] to Grimaldi Group,[20] replacing them on the
    service towards West Africa[21] with two Messina Line – ConRO vessels: MSC Cobalto (formerly Jolly Cobalto) and MSC Titanio (formerly Jolly Titanio).

  • The line subsequently expanded through the purchase of second-hand cargo ships.

  • Built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and registered in Panama, it joins the Albatross service in January as part of the 2M VSA (Vessel Sharing Agreement between
    Maersk Line and MSC).

  • [11] The expansion continued through the 1980s; by the end of the decade, MSC operated ships to North America and Australia.

  • Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. (MSC) is an international shipping line founded by Gianluigi Aponte in Italy in 1970, with headquarters in Switzerland since 1978.

  • [15][16] In February 2017, MSC purchased a 49% stake into Messina Line, an Italian shipping Line founded in Genoa, Italy in 1929, specialised in intra Mediterranean short
    sea, and Europe to East and West Africa routes.

  • [4] Type: Private; Industry: Shipping; Founded: 1970; 53 years ago; Founder: Gianluigi Aponte; Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland; Area served: Worldwide; Key people: Diego
    Aponte; Services: Container Shipping and Logistics; Revenue: $28.19 billion (2015); Net income: $6.16 billion (2014); Owner: Gianluigi Aponte[1]; ; Number of employees: 30,000 (2014); Subsidiaries: MSC Cruises Overview MSC operates 524 offices
    in 155 countries with its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland and has over 100,000 employees.

  • [30] On 6 January 2022, MSC became the largest container shipping company in the world, surpassing Maersk, in terms of TEU capacity, according to the latest Alphaliner’s figures.

  • The arrangement, which includes a series of slot exchanges and slot purchases on East-West routes, also involves Maersk Line and MSC taking over a number of charters and operations
    of vessels chartered to HMM.

  • By 1977, the company operated services to northern Europe, Africa and the Indian Ocean.

  • [7] MSC started train operations by taking over the cargo division of CP in 2015, and operates container trains over the Iberian peninsula.

  • MSC and ship owner, Dordellas Finance Corporation, and others were designated as parties of interest in the investigation.

  • [17] MSC’s subsidiary Marinvest will take over a 49 percent stake in Ignazio Messina and a 52 percent stake in Ro-Ro Italia, a new company that would control four of the Messina’s
    roll-on/roll-off container vessels.

  • [13] In December 2014, the MSC shipping line ranked number 6 in Lloyd’s List Top 100 Most Influential People in Shipping.

  • [8] Its rail operations have later expanded to Italy and beyond, under the name “Medway”.

  • [49] On April 17, 2011, after the ship was declared a total loss, the MSC Chitra was scuttled by Titan Maritime approximately 385 miles off the coast of Mumbai, India.

  • [2] The company operates in all major ports of the world.

  • [12] In 1994, MSC ordered its first newly constructed ships, which were delivered beginning in 1996 with MSC Alexa.

  • [41] MSC Napoli[edit] On 18 January 2007, the container ship MSC Napoli was abandoned in the English Channel due to European storm Kyrill after severe gale-force winds and
    huge waves caused serious damage to Napoli’s hull, including a crack in one side and a flooded engine room.

  • Søren Toft will also be a member of the board of directors of Terminal Investment Ltd.[25] In January 2021, MSC was awarded the “Maritime Sustainability Passport” (MSP) Certificate
    and Seal by the North American Marine Environment Protection Association (NAMEPA).

  • [22] The swap of these ships, that were previously deployed on MSC Adriatic Trade in between the ports of Trieste and Izmir,[23] results in view of a tighter collaboration
    between MSC and Messina Line.

  • The company owns 8 Roll-on/roll-off vessels and a Terminal in Genoa port, on top of a container fleet of 65,000 teu.

 

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