Milano – The recent investments made by the Gallozzi group for its Salerno Container Terminal are not limited to the Gottwald-Konecranes crane, which entered service in recent days, and the yard crane which will arrive shortly.
From the stage of the CONTAINER ITALY Business Meeting held last Friday in Milan, the owner Agostino Gallozzi has in fact already revealed the other steps already defined for next year and beyond.
“Yesterday I ordered a new ERTG crane which will arrive by next summer. Furthermore, I have just optioned another 75,000 square meter area in the backport which we will connect with the port areas,” announced Gallozzi, also hinting at the entry into the fleet of “electric reachstackers,” all within the framework of a plan to become “a zero-emission terminal within 5 years.”
The speech at CONTAINER ITALY, for the number one of the Gallozzi group, was also an opportunity to present his vision on the role of a container terminal located in the center of the Mediterranean, such as SCT, and on why a comparison with the developments underway in countries like Egypt is not methodologically correct.
“As a neutral terminal, we fully play our role in the Italian economy, we can attract a multitude of companies – currently 14 – in competition with each other,” he began on this point, then noting how SCT, thanks to its position, can potentially intercept flows related to imports for about 40% of Italian consumers (residing in the South and Central Italy up to Lazio and Abruzzo) and at the same time the export of three major districts: the Campania agri-food district, the southern Lazio district, and the Apulian district. “The competitive port,” he continued, “is the one that attracts and balances both flows, without forcing the shipowner to provide empty containers for export or to evacuate empty containers from ex-import.”
Then, also regarding the supposed competition from the southern shore of the Mediterranean, a topic addressed at the beginning of the conference: “It is not true that if you create a very large terminal, then you will handle a huge number of containers; you work to serve the export of a country. Even for these terminals emerging in North Africa, we must imagine a very strong development of the local economies; otherwise, they will only be transshipment terminals.” In short, concluded Gallozzi, it is wrong to ask if “they will compete with us: a container that leaves from Rome cannot be shipped from Tunis.”
F.M.
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