The Italian container terminal, Salerno Container Terminal (SCT) controlled by Gallozzi group, has been able to attract three of the major world container player.

In a week time, the terminal located in Southern Italy, non far from Naples, will host the maiden voyage of three new container services that will call regularly at Salerno. Thanks to the succes of its commercial activity Salerno Container Terminal expect to reach a total 450.000 teu throughoput by the end of the Year with a drammatic 75.000/80.000 increase as compared with the total 2016 traffic.

For these reasons the SCT today announces a 20 millions Euro plan including the purchace of three new weel containare cranes produced by the German Manufacturer Liebbher.

Today the ""BREVIK BRIDGE" started from Salerno, inaugurating the weekly direct line between the Mediterranean and North America with calls at  Halifax, New York, Norfolk and Savannah. The launch of the new service coincides with the decision of the Hapag Lloyd to focus exclusively in the Port of Salerno all of its services to and from South Italy. The ships of The Alliance will call in Italy, as well as Salerno, the ports of Livorno, Genoa and La Spezia. The Alliance includes Hapag Lloyd (and therefore also the subsidiary UASC), Yangming and the three historical companies of Japan, K line, Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Mitsui (Mol).

Tomorrow, on Friday the 7th, the full container "CSL VIRGINIA", belonging to "Ocean Alliance" ( CMA CGM, Cosco Shipping, Evergreen Line and OOCL) will call at Salerno on its maiden  voyage within another weekly service dedicated to North America

(New York, Norfolk, Savannah and Miami). The Ocean Alliance ships will call the Salerno Container Terminal Leghorn and Genoa. The same day will also see the first call of the ship "HS PARIS" with which the French company CMA CGM enters alliance with Hamburg Sud and Seago Line, from Salerno weekly for Northern Europe. With its 299.89 meters long and 84,155 gross tonnage, the HS PARIS get the full prize list of largest container ship landed at Salerno Container Terminal.

And finally, Saturday, April the 15th, will be the turn of the Chinese giant COSCO SHIPPING, that sailing from the hub of Piraeus and from the ports of Turkey, will inaugurate   the "Net Service", a new direct line from the port of Salerno to northern Europe. The service will offer departures every Saturday from Salerno to Felixstowe, with a transit time of 7 days; the Salerno - Hamburg will be covered in nine days and the Salerno - Antwerp trip in 11 days.

Agostino Gallozzi said that  "For SCT terminal it’s a real magic moment: the hard work carried out in recent years on efficiency and quality is producing results with nine companies (including those partners in the two international alliances) that consider Salerno a trustworthy terminal; we then took decision implement drammatically quality of our services and productivity, investing also on new professional figures, including 21 new young port workers”