TRIESTE – The partnership between Seadock (Samer Group) and the Medcem Group for a new cement traffic at the Port of Trieste is now operational, marked by the first vessel calling at the quay.
The ship carrying bulk cement for one of the world’s leading cement holdings, headquartered in Turkey with €450 million in revenues and 15,000 employees, is expected to arrive today in Trieste at the Seadock Bulk quay. It will stay until 8 January at Riva Giovanni da Verrazzano, along the Navigable Canal.
Following the recovery works carried out over the past year by the Italian company of the Medcem Group, set up ad hoc—Novada Cement Italy Srl—the cargo will be unloaded via an underground pipeline connected to the quay and stored in the nearby refurbished silos. These facilities had been unused for about ten years: an investment of over €3 million, as Adriaports reported last April.
The reactivation of the “Cement Terminal” will initially bring around fifteen vessel calls, with the product stored in Seadock-area silos while awaiting delivery across Europe.
«For the Samer Group,» commented Chairman Enrico Samer, «this is an important agreement that strengthens our Group’s role through the dynamism of one of our subsidiaries and creates further value in the Industrial Port area of Trieste, which should be seen as a high-potential zone».
«In recent weeks,» said Chairman and CEO Piero Bessi, «Seadock has completed a series of operations that highlight the company’s strength and its multidisciplinary vocation—from maxi-yacht construction to heavy lifts, the loading of large manufactured items and oversized cargoes—most recently the Guinness-record valve produced by Orion that we will load between 8 and 9 January—through to the new handling of ships carrying cement».
