Maritime transport in the italian logistics market

Maritime Policy and Management

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 335-352

  Evangelista, Pietro ^a   Morvillo, Alfonso ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARITIME TRANSPORTATION; SHIPPING;

ITALY;

EID: 0033825573     PISSN: 03088839     EISSN: 14645254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/030888300416531     Document Type: Article

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30. The main partnerships established to achieve logistic integration are:(i) Automar SpA, a joint venture which deals with hinterland transport of cars and their embarkation at the port of Salerno; it also manages a car terminal at Pontecagnano; (ii) Michele Autuori, shipping company, which controls Salerno Autoterminal Srl; and (iii) Palermo Autoterminal Srl, operating since 1998, which deals with handling of new cars, Ro-Ro traffic and containers
31. This is specialized in Ro-Ro and container shipping, with vessels equipped to operate in ports lacking inland facilities for freight loading and unloading, (Mediterranean, Middle East, West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa)
32. The intermodal network consists of eight railway terminals in northern and central Italy and a series of other terminals in Switzerland (Basle and Zurich), France (Lyon), Austria and Germany and in the main destinations (directly or with the cooperation of local operators). The transport service supplied by the firm in terminus countries includes the forwarding of freight inland or to neighbouring countries with no access to the sea
33. Unlike other Italian shipping firms integrated upstream or downstream of the shipping phase, which have set up ad hoc companies for each activity, Ignazio Messina runs all activities within a single operative company
34. Coeclerici Carbometal operates in the trading and commercialization of coal; Coeclerici Armatori manages the shipping activity (the company was established as result of the merging of Fermar (Ferruzzi/Montedison) and Sidermar (IRI/Finmare) acquired in 1994 and 1995, respectively; Coeclerici Logistics operates in the transport and transhipment of minerals and coal, short-sea shipping and logistics
35. The contract, awarded by the iron-and-steel complex of Kuwait Petroleum, centres on a ship equipped with a system of cranes, hoppers and belts connecting the vessel with the conveyer belt on land:the result is a system which greatly reduces iron-and-steel export costs, optimizing the cycles and times of the receiving equipment
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