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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.
MSC was founded in 1941 as Sid Tool, Inc., by Sidney Jacobson, in New York's Little Italy. It originally sold cutting tools and accessories to New York City machine shops. [ 3 ] The company later moved its headquarters to Plainview, New York .
In 1978, [2] MSC became one of the first distributors to launch a fully integrated Quality Assurance Department. [1] In 1976, his son Mitchell, a lawyer, joined the company and was tasked with seeking out the best practices at other industrial suppliers to implement at MSC. [1] In 1982, Mitchell replaced his father as president of the company. [1]
This is a list of container ships with a capacity larger than 20,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).. Container ships have been built in increasingly larger sizes to take advantage of economies of scale and reduce expense as part of intermodal freight transport.
Gianluigi Aponte (Italian pronunciation: [dʒanluˈiːdʒi aˈponte]; born 27 June 1940) is an Italian billionaire businessman, and the founder, owner and chairman of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). In 2024, Forbes estimated Aponte's net worth at $33.1 billion, ranking him as the 48th-richest person in the world. [1]
Start spreading the news: MSC Cruises launched year-round service from New York over the weekend, marking the line's third U.S. home port. The cruise line's MSC Meraviglia ship arrived at the ...
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 ...
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