The shipping and logistics group MSC is applying to save the Wartsila plant in Bagnoli della Rosandra.
This was reported by some media, first of all the specialized website "Shipmag" and the newspaper Il Secolo XIX, specifying that the intention of the owner of the Mediterranean Shipping Company, Gianluigi Aponte, would be to produce railway wagons in the plant.
An initiative that would involve the reabsorption of the approximately 300 units currently redundant.
The news would have been spread in Genoa on the sidelines of a meeting with the president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti and the deputy minister of Infrastructure Edoardo Rixi.
In an interview with the Genoa newspaper 'Il Secolo XIX', Aponte says he has "reached an agreement", specifying that "Wärtsilä closed a plant that produced engines and fired 300 people. We will take back the 300 people and create a factory of railway wagons, wagons for freight railways. These are special vehicles that allow us to transport more load. It is a beautiful structure which we also need."
The initiative would fit perfectly into MSC's industrial system given that the group is the main shareholder of Medway, a railway company that operates in Italy and several European countries, and with MedLog is a leader in logistics.
As part of the strengthening of the group, MSC has just acquired 51 percent of Italo, with the ambition, precisely, of developing freight transport.
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