New organization and logo for GIP
Berlin – Genoa-based Gruppo Investimenti Portuali attended Fruit Logistica in Berlin exactly one year after the implementation of the agreement whereby equity funds Infracapital and Infravia took over 95% of the share capital (the remaining 5% is still held by the Schenone family).
“Over the last year,” explained Massimiliano Cozzani, GIP Marketing Manager since June, “we have integrated the organizational structures at Genoa and Livorno and re-organized our internal procedures following the ethical and technology guidelines to which our shareholders attach great value. In this process we’re also focusing on external communication, including, for example, the redesigning of our logos – GIP and the TDT and SECH terminals – to represent the fact that the group operates as an integrated whole”.
With around 840 plugs for refrigerated containers between Livorno and Genoa, GIP has one of the biggest port reefer logistics capabilities in Italy: “We’re not the no. 1, but these days, paradoxically, this is our edge on the market,” commented Cozzani, “because though still being a medium size group, and therefore capable of working flexibly to meet ship owners’ requirements, we already have the industrial dimensions to ensure efficient service”.
Pending definition of eventual integration with the adjacent Bettolo terminal (majority controlled by TIL, the terminal operating arm of the Swiss MSC) still under construction, Terminal SECH is using a single dedicated wharf to serve medium-large container vessels docking in Genoa. TDT, the biggest terminal in Livorno, is basically the container port linking Italy and the Americas: “Recent work on the entrance to the port will also enable us to capture Far Eastern services again”. In addition to Bettolo, GIP has investments in PSA Terminal Voltri-Pra’ and Vecon Venice.