October 15, 2020 - ... At the end of September 2020, Germany’s Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) concluded an agreement with the Port of Trieste, in northern Italy, to invest in the development of the port’s logistic platform. The investment includes the acquisition by HHLA of 50.1 percent of the shares ...

Trieste in the Italy–China MoU of March 201917 – and one might wonder why the · MoU was struck with it rather than an established maritime-operations company · such as COSCO. The answer is that neither Genoa nor Trieste were looking for · collaborations directly on their ports: Genoa was considering Chinese ...

February 22, 2022 - President Xi Jinping and President Sergio Mattarella ©Presidenza della Repubblica / Public domain/ Wikimedia Commons“If you want to get rich, build a road first”, (要想富先修路). People could use this ancient Chinese proverb to explain in a few words the dizzying economic growth ...

October 24, 2020 - At last week’s Transport Logistic fair in Munich, the Italian port of Genoa signed a cooperation agreement with the Chinese port of Shenzhen, the world’s fourth-largest container facility. Together, China’s COSCO Shipping Ports and Qingdao Port International Development have a 49.9 percent ...

August 26, 2024 - The China Overseas Ports interactive visualizes degrees of China’s overseas port ownership by types of investment across regions and time. It also evaluates the dual-use (commercial and military) potential of ports owned, constructed, or operated by Chinese entities.

June 20, 2020 - When Italy signed up to the China Belt Road Initiative in 2019, it had dreams of becoming the key gateway for China into the Baltic, Adriatic, and Euro trading zone. The Port of Trieste, being a key component of the deal, envisaged a future state in which it would become the future maritime ...

Info Il porto di Genova Genoa ranks as a modern multi-service port boasting a wide selection of specialised terminals, managed by the top international te

China is Italy's largest trading partner in Asia, with bilateral trade growing 9.1 percent to $54.24 billion last year. The ongoing construction in Vado Ligure is the largest program for Italian ports. "Chinese investments, like the one in Vado Ligure, are necessary; if we want to develop a ...

March 28, 2025 - With a trade volume of 51.6 million tonnes, it is the busiest port of Italy after the port of Trieste by cargo tonnage. Notably the port was used for dismantling the Costa Concordia following the Costa Concordia disaster. The Port of Genoa covers an area of about 700 hectares (1,700 acres) ...

November 4, 2021 - Despite American objections, Italy is set to become the first Group of 7 nation to participate in Beijing’s vast One Belt, One Road infrastructure project.

January 17, 2025 - In March 2019, Italy signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in support of PRC President Xi Jinping’s flagship infrastructure and connectivity project, the Belt and Road Initiative. The MoU was accompanied by a series of commercial agreements, ...

2 weeks ago - While its metropolitan city has 818,651 inhabitants, more than 1.5 million people live in the wider metropolitan area stretching along the Italian Riviera. On the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea, Genoa has historically been one of the most important ports on the Mediterranean: it is the busiest ...

March 20, 2019 - Prime Minister Conte seeks to assure Italians national security will be safe after deals as Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected in port city of Palermo as part of state visit.

July 20, 1998 - Overview of the historic city of Genoa, Mediterranean seaport in northwestern Italy.

November 12, 2021 - The Chinese role and influence has expanded in all “NATO member states”, especially with the acceleration of the scope and number of giant Chinese

January 21, 2016 - Genoa, a maritime power The city of Genoa is the capital of the Liguria region, in the north-west of Italy. Is part of the most industrial area of the country, historically formed by the triangle between Milan, Turin and itself. It has a population of almost 600 000 inhabitants in the city ...

President Signorini, guest speaker at Transport Logistic China 2018 in Shanghai: “Smarter Talks on Smarter Ports” and "The Mediterranean Sea: where Asia, Africa and Europe meet along the Maritime Silk Road”.

October 21, 2022 - China’s efforts to invest in European strategic infrastructure projects are running in growing opposition.

March 21, 2019 - Italys government is headed squarely for a deal with China on direct investment in as many as four m...

Not far from an abandoned industrial site with rusted metals reminiscent of its manufacturing past, the port of Vado Ligure carries the promise of the Italian citys future. Neighboring an old reefer terminal that has so far handled mostly b