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

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and, in particular, container transport. By the end of the Nineties, Contship was a global company with services running to

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, 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

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Group (today under the brand Hapag Lloyd) and thus the name

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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

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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

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’s Terminal Investment Ltd (TIL) has taken over control of Medcenter Container Terminal S.p.A.

Subsidiaries

References

{{Reflist Port operating companies Container terminals Intermodal transport