Contship Italia Group is an Italian container terminal, intermodal and logistics operator.
History Contship, “Container Shipping”, founded by the Italian entrepreneur Angelo Ravano, was specialised in maritime transport and, in particular, container transport. By the end of the Nineties, Contship was a global company with services running to South America, the United States, the Pacific, sub-continental Australia and the Middle East. One of its subsidiaries, Contship Italia, had been active in La Spezia since 1971 where it ran the first Italian private container terminal. In 1997 Contship’s shipping lines were sold to the CP Ships Group (today under the brand Hapag Lloyd) and thus the name Contship Containerlines disappeared.
Contship Italia stayed as an independent company, not owned by CP and is still active with its network of maritime container terminals at La Spezia, Cagliari, Ravenna, Salerno and Tangier to serve central Europe’s main industrial and consumptions areas. In 2018, in partnership with the Italian Center for Economic Studies and Researches SRM, Contship produced the first analysis on logistic corridors efficiency for containerized cargo within the framework of the research activities of the Permanent Observatory on the Economy of Maritime Transport and Logistics. In 2019 Mediterranean Shipping Company’s Terminal Investment Ltd (TIL) has taken over control of Medcenter Container Terminal S.p.A.
Subsidiaries
Maritime Container Terminals 2017 Total Moves Eurogate Tanger 1,438,000 LSCT - La Spezia Container Terminal 1,378,000 TCR - Terminal Container Ravenna 185,000 CICT - Cagliari International Container Terminal 433,000 SCT - Salerno Container Terminal 420,000 Intermodal and logistics 2017 RHM - Rail Hub Milano - Melzo: Inland terminal solutions (including equipment depot, maintenance and repair) Operated trains: 5,715 Hannibal Spa: Domestic and International Intermodal solutions the main Italian ports to central and Northern European industrial areas. Transported TEU: 301,009 Oceanogate Italia: rail traction and shunting services. Operated trains km: 1,073,425 Sogemar: Real Estate and I.T.
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