News / Italian ports look to recapture domestic imports lost to North European rivals

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Italian ports have renewed their offensive of trying to capture European hinterland cargo marketshare from their northern European rivals.

Speaking at last week’s TOC Container Supply Chain conference in Rotterdam, Mike Cashman, commercial director of Italy’s largest container terminal operator, Contship Italia, said the company had focused on wresting back the considerable volumes of Italian imports from Asia currently routed through Rotterdam, and was looking to expand its share of the Swiss market.

“There’s a lot of Italian cargo being routed through ...