Mediterranean Shipping Company: MSC opened a new branch office in Moldova

Mediterranean Shipping Company: MSC opened a new branch office in Moldova

• 18.01.2012

Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. (MSC), the second largest container shipping company in the world, will offer container transportation services to/from Giurgiulesti International Free Port via Istanbul from/to more than 586 ports and thousands of inland destinations.

MSC was Danube Logistics’ first client for its new weekly service between Istanbul and Giurgiulesti International Free Port (GIFP).During its first call at GIFP, the maritime vessel MV Kalana discharged a total of 142 MSC containers. Over the weekend the ship is expected to sail to Istanbul with the first 23 MSC export containers carrying Moldovan grain. The containers will ultimately be delivered by MSC to purchasers of the Moldovan grain in Taiwan.

Alexander Di Leonardo, the Managing Director of MSC Moldova stated on the occasion: “In order to be even closer to its existing clients and to better serve new customers, MSC established a new branch office in Chisinau, Moldova. MSC will offer competitive tariffs and transit times in order to support customer needs. The first clients already booked containers from Far East and other destinations to Giurgiulesti International Free Port and the other way round. We are convinced that the new weekly feeder service will become a success story.”

Thomas Moser, the Chairman of Danube Logistics SRL, added: “We are very pleased and proud that we were able to attract MSC, the second largest container shipping line in the world, to Giurgiulesti International Free Port. MSC will without a doubt provide an excellent service to Moldovan and international companies wishing to import or export containers to Moldova. The new service will furthermore provide international companies a cost and time efficient opportunity to transit containers via GIFP to Romania, Ukraine, Belarus or Russia.

Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. (MSC) is a privately-owned company with headquarter in Geneva, Switzerland. Operating 456 container vessels providing for an intake capacity of over 2,000,000 Twenty-Equivalent Units (TEUs), MSC is the world’s second largest container carrier. MSC has 421 offices in 145 countries on six different continents and offers 200 routes to 586 ports of call. MSC has 30,000 employees and in 2011 carried over 12,000,000 TEUs.