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MSC Tomoko in the Santa Barbara Channel, 2009. Mediterranean Shipping Company was founded in Naples in 1970 as a private company by seafaring captain Gianluigi Aponte when he bought his first ship, Patricia, followed by Rafaela, with which Aponte began a shipping line operating between the Mediterranean and Somalia.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 December 2024. Cruise line registered in Switzerland MSC Cruises Company type Privately held company Industry Transportation Founded 1988 ; 36 years ago (1988) Naples, Italy Founder Gianluigi Aponte Headquarters Geneva, Switzerland Area served Worldwide Products Cruises Number of employees 23,500 ...
In 2019, MSC completed a transaction with TAC Global Solutions, a Mexican industrial distribution company, to expand into Mexico. In 2022, MSC acquired Engman-Taylor, a Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin-based distributor of metalworking tools and supplies. That same year, MSC also acquired Tower Fasteners, a Holtsville, New York-based valued-added ...
On 31 October 2019, MSC announced the name of the first World-class ship as MSC Europa and held the ship's steel-cutting ceremony at Chantiers de l'Atlantique, inaugurating the construction for the ship. [5] The ship was later revealed to be renamed MSC World Europa, announced during her keel-laying ceremony on 29 June 2020. [6]
On 4 April 2017 a fire broke out in one of the containers onboard of MSC Daniela while the ship was on route from Singapore to the Suez Canal. [2] After the fire was put out the remaining containers were offloaded in the port of Colombo. [3] On 22 May she arrived in Shanghai for repairs that were initially expected to only take around three ...
Madrid Express (originally MSC Fabiola) is a container ship built for the Hamburg based Peter Döhle Schiffahrtsgesellschaft by Samsung Heavy Industries in South Korea. The ship was initially chartered by the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) as the MSC Fabiola. From 2019 onwards the ship was chartered to Hapag-Lloyd as the Madrid Express.
MSC Benedetta at Felixstowe, England. The Benedetta class is a series of eight container ships built for E.R. Schiffahrt by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea. All eight ships are currently chartered to Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). The ships have a maximum theoretical capacity of around 13,100 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). [1]
2,900 barrels (460 m 3) (400 tonnes) [1] – 5,900 barrels (940 m 3) (800 tonnes) [2] The 2010 Mumbai oil spill occurred after the Panama-flagged MV MSC Chitra (IMO: 7814838) and MV Khalijia 3 (IMO: 8128690) [ 3 ] [ 4 ] collided off the coast of India near Mumbai on Saturday, 7 August 2010 at around 9:50 am local time.