Contship Italia's intermodal targets till 2024
The Melzo/Milan-headquartered Contship Italia Group has published its new business plan targets. By the year 2024, Eurokai's Italian container terminal and intermodal branch plans to achieve more than 1.8 million teu new handling capacity, including gateway and transhipment capabilities and a ratio in intermodal transport projected to reach 50% maritime and 50% continental/intra-EU trade.
In detail, Contship strengthens its La Spezia Container Terminal (LSCT), the company’s main container terminal in the country. The development project will start at the Ravano terminal to realise a new 524 m length quay equipped with five STS cranes 25 rows across.
Moreover, some 15 years after the start of the concession agreement for Eurogate Tanger (TC2), the new Tanger Alliance terminal (TC3) in Tanger Med 2 will start its commercial operations in January 2021, deploying eight STS cranes (24 rows/54 m under spreader) on 800 m quay and 360,000 sqm yards. Once completed, the terminal handling capacity will be 1.5 million teu.
Furthermore, the Intermodal Services Sogemar, the intermodal-logistics and customs arm of the group, will collaborate with its sister company Eurogate Intermodal to build and promote European network services. Rail Hub Milano (Melzo) already achieved the target of 50% handling operations with continental traffic (swap bodies, 45 feet intermodal units and semitrailers) in 2019.
Hannibal, the group’s MTO, with over 60 trains/week connecting Genoa, La Spezia and Ravenna with Melzo, Dinazzano and Padua, will continue to support the expected modal shift in the Italian port activities, expanding further to landlocked markets such as Switzerland, Southern Germany and Austria.
In the future, Hannibal will continue to expand its offering to Rotterdam and UK for continental flows by adding new corridors in 2021 and 2022. Additional ambitious projects related to the development of digital platforms will also be announced in 2021. (cd)