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The Pilots of the Port of Genoa announced the successful mooring of the Liberian containership Agios Minas – 300 metres long, 40 metres wide and a deadweight tonnage of 73,000 dwt – at Gruppo Spinelli-Genoa Port Terminal’s Ponte Etiopia.

Inauguration at the PSA Genova Pra’ full-container terminal of the new EMA (East Mediterranean - America) scheduled liner service, operated by the Asian ONE/COSCO/OOCL/YANG MING alliance , between the Mediterranean ports and the East Coast of the United States

With the objective of easing congestion at the main entrance to both the Container and Reefer terminals, and reducing to a minimum interaction with gate control staff, truckers can now benefit from the new mobile app, “APMT TERMPoint Appointments”, launched by Vado Gateway.

The “Dunes” Project construction works have resumed along the Genoa-Pra’ canal. Notwithstanding the Covid-19 public health emergency, the construction site is once again operational, with the objective of completing a promenade which has been designed to function both as a visual screen and as a noise barrier between PSA Genova-Prà container terminal and the local urban area.

In the first quarter of this year, whilst the overall cargo throughput of major Chinese coastal ports declined 3.5%, according to the statistics released by China Ports & Harbors Association, the eight major Chinese ports reached a throughput of 37.63 million TEU container in Q1, a decline of 8.9% year-on-year

IMF claims that China’s economy, though affected by the effects of the economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, is expected to see a recovery in the second quarter of the year thanks to the firms re- opening and the return of employees to work in March

According to the new IAPH COVID-19 Survey, from the ports viewpoint, the global maritime transport scenario shows a clear deterioration compared to the previous weeks

UK-headquartered global analysts Oxford Economics released an in-depth analysis of the global economic momentum. In response to the first signs of successful coronavirus containment, some governments begin to explore lifting lockdown restrictions. Still, the latest economic data confirm that the economic costs of shutdowns are and will be significant

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the Ports of Genoa, Savona and Vado Ligure remain operational, both at quayside and at school. In fact, the education and training programmes and courses, arranged throughout the year with local schools, continue online.

APM Terminals, which operates the Vado Gateway Container Terminal, has donated 10 modular multiparameter devices to the San Paolo Hospital in Savona to support patient monitoring during the Covid-19 public health emergency