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Vanguard, strong investments in the three-year period 2022-2025

"Among the essential points of Vanguard Logistics' 2022-2025 Global Strategy there are the continuous expansion of our proprietary Network, through acquisition processes (two years ago opened in Sri Lanka, in 2020 we took over the Canadian agent and inaugurated, in 2022, Vanguard Logistics Poland) and the enhancement of this network through the synergistic use of adjacent Countries, as in the case of Italy, France and Spain" - says south Europe general manager Alberto Accetta

European firms make use of Chinese rail agents to evade Russia sanctions

Demand for China-Europe rail freight has plummeted since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but some European customers are "bypassing sanctions" by using Chinese agents. According to Chinese state media, Silk Road rail volumes increased in the first quarter

India's antitrust raids target sellers on Amazon, Walmart's Flipkart

India's antitrust body launched raids early on Thursday against two top domestic sellers of online retail giant Amazon.com, and some on Walmart's Flipkart, following accusations of competition law violations

Warehousing firm Segro flags supply and cost pressures from Ukraine crisis

Warehousing firm Segro said on Thursday that Russia's invasion of Ukraine added to its construction supply chain and inflationary woes, and could put an upward pressure on rents. London-headquartered Segro said the constraints would further "tighten the supply-demand imbalance"

Major containership operators phase out Russian calls

Container lines and third-party feeder operators are reducing or phasing out services to Russian ports, reports London's Lloyd's List. While major container line companies have reduced calls at Vladivostok in Russia's Far East, domestic operator Fesco appears to have added calls

Kazakhstan looks for cargo shipping routes bypassing Russia

Kazakhstan is in talks to ship cargoes through the Latvian ports of Riga and Ventspils as well as the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey corridor following European sanctions against Russian shippers, the Central Asian nation's government said on Thursday

FESCO says customers can pay yuan

Russia's FESCO Transportation Group accepts Chinese yuan from customers, it said this week, as businesses struggle to cope with international sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The company said it was also offering customers "various alternative options of payment" for euro

Iraq was top target of China's Belt & Road in 2021

Iraq was the top target for China's Belt & Road infrastructure initiative in 2021, receiving $10.5 billion in financing for projects including a heavy oil power plant, a study published on Wednesday said

China punishes cold-chain managers

Investigations into China's cold-chain sector have led to several managers, officials and business owners being punished for failing to meet COVID-19 prevention standards, the country's corruption watchdog said in a notice

Companies test foldable shipping containers to resolve shipping imbalance

New York - Designers of folding shipping containers hope there will be more demand for their products because of the backups created by the COVID-19 pandemic and other issues, according to a recent Bloomberg report

Amazon's Black Friday greeted by climate activists

Tilbury - Climate activists targeted 15 Amazon depots across Europe on Black Friday and the world's biggest e-commerce company also faced protests by workers and delivery drivers in Germany, France and Italy

African nations mend and make do as China tightens Belt and Road Initiative

Nairobi - Deep in Kenya's Great Rift Valley, members of the National Youth Service tirelessly swing machetes to clear dense shrubs obscuring railway tracks more than a century old. It's a distinctly low-tech phase for China's Belt and Road drive in Africa to create the trade highways of the future

Alibaba slashes sales outlook

London - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd slashed its forecast for annual revenue growth on increased competition and a regulatory crackdown, sending its stock tumbling 11%

Amazon may drop Visa

London - Amazon.com Inc is considering dropping Visa as partner on its U.S. co-branded credit card after earlier confirming it would stop accepting Visa credit cards in the United Kingdom as a dispute over payments intensified. The e-commerce giant is in talks with several payment networks including Mastercard Inc, American Express Co and Visa as part of what it called its standard process for reviewing its co-branded credit card agreement

China's Singles' Day loses lustre

Shanghai - After more than a decade of explosive growth, China's Singles' Day, the world's biggest online shopping fest, is losing its gloss and bracing for more modest growth in coming years, hurt by a slower economy and tighter regulatory scrutiny

Navis integrates Master Terminal at Milano Segrate Terminal

Genoa - Navis has announced that it has gone live with its Master Terminal operating system at Inter Modal Logistic (IML) Milano Segrate Terminal (Ignazio Messina & C.). Milano Segrate is currently in the process of updating its inland and intermodal terminals

Supply chain disruption: is the worst over?

Purchasing managers say delivery times for manufacturers worldwide are deteriorating, with the global delivery time index down to 34.8 last month

Britain expected to ease visa rules as truck driver shortage bites

"We’re looking at temporary measures to avoid any immediate problems, but any measures we introduce will be very strictly time limited," a spokeswoman for Johnson's Downing Street office said in a statement.

La logistica in Italia è figlia di un dio minore

Pubblichiamo un intervento della presidente di Fedespedi

Biden hosts Indo-Pacific leaders as China concerns grow

The Quad leaders also announced Japan would work with India on a $100 million investment in COVID-19 vaccine and treatment drugs

Chinese city launches new freight train route with the Polish port city of Gdansk

Chengdu has added eight new overseas stations to its China-Europe freight train routes so far this year. Its China-Europe freight trains can reach a total of 66 destinations in Europe.

DP World to invest Rs 2,000 crore in various Tamil Nadu projects

Karur - Logistics services major DP World will come up with fresh investments to the tune of around Rs 2,000 crore in Tamil Nadu, including setting up of a new container terminal, cold storage and sea food processing zone among other units. The other projects lined up include a free trade zone with an integrated rail siding, minor port in the Eastern Coast of Tamil Nadu and inland container depots in Erode, Karur and Tirupur

Ports: Trieste, in Budapest first foreign promotion office With Alpe Adria SpA

Recently, the Hungarian public company Adria Port invested about 100 m euros in a multipurpose terminal in the Noghere area, on 32 hectares.

Porto di Trieste, D'Agostino: “I 416 milioni del Pnrr? Una leva per altri 500 milioni di investimenti”

"Siamo particolarmente orgogliosi di questo riconoscimento perché è frutto di 5 anni di lavoro intenso e di una progettualità articolata e complessa che ha visto la partecipazione di circa 100 professionisti di grande capacità”

Acciaio, oltre mezzo milione di tonnellate bloccate nei porti. Congestione concentrata a Marghera e Ravenna

“A causa della congestione l'armatore, impossibilitato a sbarcare, si vede incrementare i costi di attesa che possono arrivare fino a 40 mila dollari al giorno per ogni nave”

UK faces shortage of 100,000 truck drivers. Employers offer hiring bonuses of up to 5,000 pounds

Truckers are a central cog in the global economy, carrying almost all our goods. If there aren't enough of them, it is likely to drive up prices.

Pandemic seen driving southeastern Europe warehouse boom

Prague - Logistics and warehouse companies are accelerating expansion plans in southeastern Europe where business is expected to boom as the pandemic spurs manufacturers to relocate operations close to main markets

Amazon reviewing bids to replace JPMorgan as credit card partner

New York - E-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc is fielding bids to replace U.S. lender JPMorgan Chase & Co as the issuer on its co-branded credit card portfolio, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters

Suez Canal to widen, deepen 30 kilometres of channel

Suez - Plans have been unveiled by Suez Canal Authority chairman Osama Rabie to widen and deepen 30 kilometres of the waterway between Suez and the Great Bitter Lake, reported Adderbury, England's Bunkerspot. The announcement by Admiral Rabie was also attended by the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who gave his approval for the start of work to be completed in 24 months

Shippers push for CP Railway to win bidding war for Kansas City Southern

CN, Canada's biggest railroad, made an unsolicited $30 billion bid for KCS on Tuesday, topping CP's agreed $25 billion bid, but CP said last week it was not considering raising its offer

South Korean PM arrives in Iran to help try to revive nuclear deal

Chung's trip comes days after Iran released the tanker and its captain, the last member of its 20-strong crew, with South Korea vowing to help secure the release of the funds.

Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine supply to the EU 30% below plans

EU officials have said Pfizer committed to delivering 3.5 million doses a week from the start of January, for a total of 21 million shots by mid-February

Ebay earnings beat on pandemic-driven surge in online shopping

New York - E-commerce firm eBay said on Wednesday it would emerge "stronger" from the COVID-19 crisis after a pandemic-driven surge in online shopping helped the company beat estimates for sales and profit in the holiday quarter. Shares of the company were up nearly 10% in extended trade. The global health crisis has forced millions of Americans to stay indoors, leading to a jump in online orders for e-commerce companies including eBay, Amazon and Walmart

Closed highway and dangerous desert detour underline challenges to Libyan peace

Libyans watching a peace process nearing a critical phase this week in Switzerland need only try driving from one side of their country to the other to understand the obstacles to diplomacy.

Drone company Wingcopter gets more firepower in vaccine delivery race

Wingcopter is one of several drone start-ups seeking to play a role in the delivery of vaccines in regions lacking good storage facilities or developed transport infrastructure.

Spain could develop coronavirus herd immunity by end of summer 2021, minister says

Salvador Illa said a vaccination programme will start in January and by the end of the summer more than two thirds of the population of 47 million should be vaccinated.

U.S. expects to have immunized 100 million people against COVID-19 by end of March

The vaccine requires two shots per person. "We are working with Pfizer to continue helping them and supporting them achieve the objective of providing us with another 100 million doses in the second quarter of 2021," Slaoui said.

Historic U.S. COVID vaccine campaign launches with convoy of trucks

Three trucks carrying pallets of boxed, refrigerated vaccines rolled away from the Kalamazoo facility at 8:29 a.m., escorted by body armor-clad security officers in a pickup truck and a SUV. The United States expects to immunize 100 million people, or about 30% of its population, by the end of March

Swissterminal expands intermodal portfolio, new barge service to Rotterdam and Antwerp

Basel - Switzerland-based integrated logistics provider Swissterminal AG and its partner DP World have announced the introduction of a regular barge service from Basel-Kleinhüningen and Basel-Birsfelden to various deepsea terminals at the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp, starting 1 January 2021. With the launch of this new intermodal product, Swissterminal offers two roundtrips each week to Port of Antwerp and Port of Rotterdam

Fortune Italy load heavy lift cargo at Marghera

Venezia - Fortune International Transport in Italy have recently loaded a complete new high pressure separator including all equipment at Marghera in Venice with the destination of China. The heaviest piece weighed 90tn with three additional pieces at 40tn each as well as other cargo in cases totalling 500cbm as a whole shipment

Delta Maritime with transport of tram trains in Greece

Piraeus - Delta Maritime report an ongoing project they are assisting with involving the transport of tram trains from Piraeus Port to Elliniko Tram Station. The project will help the flow of traffic throughout the Athens and Piraeus network

SGP takes over management of King Abdulaziz Port container terminals

Dammam - On 1 October 2020, Saudi Global Ports Company (SGP), one of PSA International’s subsidiaries, officially assumed the management of both first and second container terminals at King Abdulaziz Port Dammam (KAPD), Saudi Arabia. SGP has thus become the sole container terminal operator of the deep-water hinterland port.

UK mulls Scotland-Northern Ireland bridge

London - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson launched a review aimed at improving transport links across the UK, including a possible bridge between Scotland and Northern Ireland, as part of a plan to boost the pandemic-hit economy and strengthen ties between its member nations. The study will consider air links within the country, road and rail links in Scotland, the Welsh rail network

Sally rumbles toward U.S. Gulf Coast, historic flooding possible. Ports closed along the Coast

The U.S. Coast Guard restricted travel on the lower Mississippi River from New Orleans to the Gulf, and closed the ports of Pascagoula and Gulfport, Mississippi, and Mobile

Refiners, offshore producers shut ahead of Hurricane Sally landfall

The U.S. government said 21%, or nearly 396,000 barrels per day (bpd), of offshore crude oil production and 25%, or 685 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd), of natural gas output were shut in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico

Swiss complete trans-European rail route with Ceneri Tunnel under the Alps

"It's the last part of the puzzle," Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) Chief Executive Vincent Ducrot told reporters. "The goal to have a flat rail line through the Alps has now been achieved."

Amazon's latest grocery store concept opens, with high-tech carts

Los Angeles - Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said it is opening a supermarket in Los Angeles with shopping carts that let customers skip checkout lines, as the e-commerce company builds out its offline presence. The market, in the Woodland Hills neighborhood, is called the Amazon Fresh grocery store. It is the first location to let customers in - by invitation only - out of seven that Amazon has confirmed for Southern California and greater Chicago

Algeria to allow private banks, airlines, shipping firms

Elected in December 2019, Tebboune wants to encourage private investors and improve the investment climate in an effort to develop the non-energy sector and reduce reliance on oil and gas

Kuehne und Nagel second quarter core earnings drop

Swiss freight forwarder Kuehne und Nagel International reported on Tuesday a 12.6% drop in second-quarter core earnings

Webuild to work on €220m contract for Turin-Lyon high-speed railway base tunnel

Turin - Webuild, formerly Salini Impregilo, and its partners have won a €220-million contract to help develop the base tunnel between Turin and Lyon, a major infrastructure project that is part of an ambitious European Union initiative of sustainable mobility to connect the continent’s railway networks and increase the transport of people and goods on rail rather than road

DHL temporarily suspends Chinese import shipments to India

The German logistics company said on Wednesday it has temporarily suspended picking up import shipments from China to India, after border tensions between the countries led to clearance delays

ZIM to meet eCommerce boom with record US-China service

Haifa - Container shipping line ZIM has launched a dedicated service from South China to Los Angeles US West Coast – Speedy ZIM eCommerce Xpress (ZEX) to cater for the increasing needs of eCommerce customers. In a statement, the carrier said the emphasis on eCommerce was particularly relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic

No demand: world’s container ships run near empty

Hong Kong - Warehouses are getting so full of goods like fridges and washing machines that retailers are asking shipping companies to push back deliveries, which may drag global container shipments down as much as 30% in the next few months

Angola confirms first cases as coronavirus spreads over Africa

Many African countries have already shut borders, closed schools and universities and barred large public gatherings to curb the spread of the virus, which has infected over 250,000 people around the world and claimed more than 10,000 lives

Autotrasporto, torna in Sicilia la protesta dei Forconi

Dovrebbe scattare domattina, martedì 7 gennaio, la protesta degli autotrasportatori siciliani contro il caro navi

EU signs 75 million dollars of infrastructure deals with Bosnia

Sarajevo - The European Union and its lending arm, the European Investment Bank, have signed deals with Bosnia worth 68 million euros ($75 million) to help improve the Balkan country’s water supply, flood protection and transport infrastructure

Portugal’s fuel-tanker drivers back down, walkout continues

Lisbon - Portuguese fuel-tanker drivers will maintain their strike indefinitely after a 10-hour meeting of union leaders and government officials ended without an agreement.

Fuel-truck drivers in Portugal raise spectre of empty filling stations

Lisbon - Fuel-tanker drivers raised the spectre of empty filling stations and aviation fuel shortages during Portugal’s busy tourist season on Tuesday, saying they would comply with a government order to go back to work but would not do extra time.

Controlled explosions demolish remains of collapsed Italy bridge

Genoa - Six seconds of controlled explosions wiped out the remains of a collapsed bridge in the northern Italian city of Genoa on Friday, paving the way for a new structure to replace the ageing viaduct that gave way last year, killing 43 people.

Montenegro: chinese Crbc interested in more works

Belgrade - For the highway Bar-Boljare, 129 kilometers long.

The Market of Genoa (SGM): from fruit to logistics

Genoa -The future is logistics. And the Mercato di Genova has for a long time been at the forefront.

China seeks to allay fears over BRI debt risks

Beijing - China aims to make the Belt and Road initiative sustainable and prevent debtrisks, its finance minister said on Thursday, seeking to allay criticism that the infrastructure plan to boost trade and investment creates a heavy burden for some nations

“In Italy we pay costly for the lack of infrastructure”/ INTERVIEW

Marcucci: “There are 15 infrastructure elements, tangible and intangible, that Confetra considers decisive for our development”.

We proudly present: nominees for the FRUIT LOGISTICA Innovation Award 2019

Venice Mestre enhances intermodal station

Venice - The upgrading of intermodal systems in the Venice Mestre railway station area, promoting interconnectivity between rail and road transport modes, and rebuilding the urban fabric of Venice’s Mestre and Marghera neighbourhoods

Ronchese Lavaggi Interport, quality shipping services

In conversation with Managing Director Fabio Pittaluga

Maersk to start reefer rail service in Russia

St. Petersburg - Maersk intends to develop reefer rail service in Russian from sea port into hinterland. According to Maersk Russia, the line has already made test shipments of perishables by rail. Thus, import fruit was dispatched from St. Petersburg to Novosibirsk

The new Synchro-Net approach to multimodal international logistic chains

Rescuers deal with fire in Genoa bridge rubble before day of mourning

Genoa - Day of mourning, funeral planned for Saturday. Some families to boycott that in protest.

Genoa: investors turn on Italy bridge operator after disaster

Genoa - Italy’s biggest toll-road operator came under heavy stock-market attack on Thursday after Rome criticised it for a deadly bridge collapse this week, moving to revoke its concession and accusing it of failing to ensure the viaduct’s safety.

Divača-Koper at 160 km/h / ANALYSIS

THIS past year in Slovenia, there has been a debate on the upgrading of the Divača-Koper rail line. The project, because of its high cost, has been held hostage by the political clash between the majority and the opposition. Suffice it to say that several referendums have been held to stop the project

Workers forced to move 10,000 books in a shift

Pavia - Ten thousand books to be moved in one shift, ‘weekly’ contracts renewed for years, 200 hours of overtime per month, systematic violations of every labour right. These were, according to 300 workers’ stories, the working conditions reported by a study into ‘caporalato’, a kind of illegal job brokerage

DPW to build and operate logistics hub in Mali

Dubai - Global trade enabler Dp World has signed a 20-year concession with an automatic 20-year extension with the Republic of Mali to build and operate a 1000-hectare modern logistics hub outside of Bamako

Continental to invest 4 mln euro in Timisoara tire plant

Timosoara - Automotive parts supplier Continental Romania said it is investing 4 million euro ($4.7 million) to expand the system for treating olfactory emissions at its Timisoara plant, Continental Anvelope.

China launches new Iran train route

Tehran - China sent an inaugural train toward Iran carrying 1,150 tonnes of sunflower seeds.

UPS weighs strategy to deliver bulky goods to boost growth

New York - UPS and its rival FedEx Corp currently deliver parcels up to 150 pounds (68.04 kg) in weight to a person’s door step, and neither carries packages into a person’s home or handles so-called “white glove” services such as product assembly or installation.

Amsterdam connects with the new Silk Road

Amsterdam - A new direct connection has been launched between Amsterdam Container Terminal and Yiwu in China as part of the new Silk Road connecting two of the world’s leading economies. The first train set off on its 11,000 kilometre, 16-day journey on 7 March 2018

World Bank’s IFC calls for investment in Iraq reconstruction

Kuwait - The International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) country manager for Iraq, Ziad Badr, was speaking in Kuwait ahead of an international conference this week for donors and investors to rebuild and revive Iraq’s economy as the country emerges from a devastating three-war against Islamic State.

Global Fruit & Veg market worth €246 billion

Berlin - According to Münch, that figure could reach the 400-billion mark in 2030, with fruit representing 32% of the world’s population daily diet.

“Never in Italy” to Amazon and its bracelet

Roma - In Italy, Amazon’s patent for a wireless bracelet to speed up employees’ retrieval of products stored in warehouses has generated a controversy that has not yet subsided. Minister of Economic Development, Carlo Calenda, has made it clear that such bracelets will never be used in Italy

Suez Authority extends toll cuts for dry bulkers

Port Said - The Suez Canal Authority has extended the discount offered to dry bulk vessels back in April 2017 until the end of 2018. Specifically, a 75% rebate of the canal transit tolls is being offered to laden or ballast dry bulk vessels coming or heading to ports at South West, South and East of Australia

“How RAM will serve to relaunch logistics” / INTERVIEW

Naples - Although he has accumulated titles and presidencies and held prestigious positions throughout in his life, he is still known to everyone as “the professor,” a title to which Ennio Cascetta is particularly attached.He calls himself a perfectionist, and admittedly not an easy personality

EU lawmakers back exports control on spying technology

Brussels - Members of the European Parliament’s trade committee voted by 34 votes to one in favour of a planned update to export controls on “dual use” products or technologies.

ALIS flexes its muscles with three thousand assembly attendees

Rome - As first assemblies go, this one was certainly well attended: if there weren’t 3,000 it wasn’t far off; and, naturally, the representatives of Italy’s ports were in the front row, members of the Logistics Association for Sustainable Intermodality (ALIS), founded by its president, Guido Grimaldi.

Circle among the main companies of 4th Shipping & Intermodal Transport Forum

Genoa - The Italian firm will share its concrete experiences on Internet of Things (IoT) and Industry 4.0 for the optimization of intermodal Supply Chain.

ECG, new course on Negotiation Management

Brussels - ECG,the Association of European Vehicles Logistics, announces the extension of its education arm to include a new specialist course on Negotiation Management. This new course further reinforces ECG’s commitment to education & training, and complements its successful ECG Academy

Logistics: contract negotiations at an impasse

Genoa - The workers have been without a contract for 22 months.

Kuhne + Nagel, results improve

Genoa - In the third quarter of this year, net sales for the Swiss logistics group Kuehne + Nagel amounted to 4.7 billion Swiss francs (€4.1 billion), up 14.9% from 4.1 billion Swiss francs in July-September 2016.

Laos merely a bystander as China pushes Belt and Road ambitions

Luang Prabang - An ambitious $6 billion high-speed railway project in Laos that would link China with the Laotian capital of Vientiane on the Thai border is meant to be a symbol of cooperation under Chinese President Xi Jinping’s flagship Belt and Road Initiative.

Tractor-thief gang dismantled in Savona

Cairo Montenotte - They stole tractors in the area between Liguria and Piedmontand exported them to Romania for reselling in Eastern Europe. The gang of agricultural vehicle-jackers were caught thanks to an operation by the carabinieri police of the Cairo Operational Headquarters

EU to reform sales tax, end appeal of low-rate states in blow to Amazon

Strasbourg - VAT to be charged with rates of EU states where goods are sold. Move aimed at tackling frauds and dissuade tax schemes.

New China-Italy rail connection

Lugo - Rail Cargo Operator (RCO), the intermodal division of Austria’s Rail Cargo Group (RCG), specializing in frequent long-distance connections, handled its first rail link between Taiyuan, in China’s Shanxi province, and Lugo, located near Ravenna, Italy, on behalf of China Container Transportation Corporation (CRCT)

Switzerland ensures slots at Gotthard Tunnel

Locarno - According to the revision of the Law on Freight Transport, the Swiss Federal Council and Parliament have instructed the Federal Transport Office (UFT) to guarantee traffic rights (slots) for both passenger and freight traffic

Switzerland develops Rhine river ports

Basel - The Swiss Federal Office of Transport (UFT),the Cantons of Basel-city and Basel-country, and the Swiss Rhine River Ports (SRH) have signed a declaration of intent for upgrade work at the ports located along the Rhine, including the construction of a third basin at the port of Kleinhüningen

Grimaldi: “Marebonus is running aground”

Rome - “The ‘Marebonus’ is running aground.And doing incalculable damage to Italy’s economy. The road haulage companies believed in the ‘Marebonus’ [i.e. Sea Bonus] to such an extent that they directed their investments to more and more intermodal transportation”

Customs, the return of protectionism: expert panel discussion in Italy

Genoa - This will be the first time the World Customs Law Meeting event is held in Italy, it will take place September 6-8 at the headquarters of Italy’s Customs Agency in Rome.

Top Canadian investor says U.S. behind in race for infrastructure capital / INTERVIEW

Toronto - Ontario Teachers’ CIO says Canada better positioned. Pension fund held talks with White House officials. Says U.S. considering copying some Canadian plans.

Pre-clearing set to begin for automotive in Italy

Ravenna - In early September advanced customs clearance proceduresfor motor vehicles are set to start. A trial period by Italy’s Customs Agency will last six months, and it will represent the first time that vehicles are also included, since 2014, when the procedures started being applied to containers

Titan ships machinery from Italy to India

La Spezia - Italian firm Titan Project & Logistic shipped of machinery for a tannery.The machinery was picked up from the Italian tannery after dismantling and was stuffed, lashed and loaded on a 20’ flat at the Titan premises as photographed. The shipment then left La Spezia in Italy bound for Nhava Sheva, India

The Peleggi era winds down: Kessler to take over as Italy’s Customs Agency director

Genoa - On the docks Peleggi will be remembered for creating an IT infrastructure that enabled Italy to handle expanded freight traffic.