News / Livorno opens bidding for new box terminal, while Contship Italia shows its gateway concept works

As the Italian port of Livorno today formally invites tenders for the construction and operation of its new container terminal, the country’s leading terminal operator, Contship Italia, delivered annual results that show its strategy to offer its facilities primarily as gateways to Europe is beginning to bear fruit.

The operator, which is also part of a consortium that operates one of the Tanger Med terminals in Morocco, reported a group-wide throughput in 2015 of 6.3m teu, a decline of 4.5% from the ...