Cagliari is an ideal location, a cross roads between East-West and North-South trades. Several international partners visited the Port Authority stand looking for effective new supply chain solutions increasingly required by the introduction of the new giant tonnage deployed in the main world trades arterials.
Cagliari International Container Terminal can today offer 1.5 km of linear quay with a water depth of 16 m. Such a modern and big infrastructure is increasingly offering customers the option of JUST IN TIME CONNECTIONS between Mother and Mother or between Mother and Feeder Vessels reflected by the simultaneous berthing of two mother vessels over 300 m (length over all) plus several feeder vessels. Transit time savings and operations flexibility are possible leveraging on effective and faster ship operations. On 2012, calculation based on 379 ocean vessels and 432 feeder vessels calls, reported that, on average, operations at berth started only 1 hour and a half after arrival at pilot station.
Mr. Massidda, President of Cagliari Port Authority, joined the exhibition in order to meet and explain recent development opportunities and his commitment for the future competitiveness of the Port. “We are quickly improving the Free Trade Zone project further exploiting the chance to introduce fiscal advantages based on the Economic Special Zones schema. The First step of the Free Trade Zone will involve a portion of the area near the trans-shipment Terminal quay” stated Mr Massidda. “Sardinia is an island in the center of the Med, only 110 nautical miles far from North Africa main ports with a deviation of few nautical miles from the Suez-Gibraltar route. A natural and ideal logistic platform improving its role of extended home port for North African emerging markets and a window to the world for their trades”.
Cagliari continues to generate in the first two months of 2013 substantial improvement in its global connectivity consolidating the positive result of 2012 volumes which increased 4% year by year. A CENTRE today AT THE SERVICE of the two most important German Carriers, HAPAG LLOYD and HAMBURG SUED and other members of the GRAND ALLIANCE joint services, namely ORIENT OVERSEAS CONTAINER LINE and NYK LINE, supported by the long established feeder operators in the Mediterranean, being EMES (ARKAS Group Company), UNITED FEEDER SERVICES and X-PRESS FEEDERS, who usually provide three to four vessel calls per day. 15 weekly liner services directly connecting over 90 ports.