{"id":28935,"date":"2022-01-25T13:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/msc-joins-lufthansa-in-bidding-for-italys-flagship-airline\/28935\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T13:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T10:50:00","slug":"msc-joins-lufthansa-in-bidding-for-italys-flagship-airline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/msc-joins-lufthansa-in-bidding-for-italys-flagship-airline\/28935\/","title":{"rendered":"MSC joins Lufthansa in bidding for Italy\u2019s flagship airline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-before-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>Airplanes are increasingly the must-have bolt on for cash-rich containerlines, the billionaires of the transport sector, making more money than Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google.<\/p>\n<p>The Aponte family controlled Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has tied up with Germany\u2019s Lufthansa in a bid to acquire the majority of Alitalia successor ITA Airways, seeking an exclusivity period of 90 days to study the deal.<\/p>\n<p>MSC said yesterday the interest in state-run ITA stemmed from \u201cthe possibility of activating positive synergies \u2026 both in the cargo and the passenger sector\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-in-post-middle\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<p>During container shipping\u2019s greatest ever boom of the past year other liner giants such as <a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/cma-cgm-buys-into-french-airline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CMA CGM<\/a> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/maersk-spends-some-of-its-multi-billion-dollar-war-chest-to-bolster-air-freight-position\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maersk<\/a><\/span> have invested in airplanes<\/p>\n<p>Consultantcy Drewry is predicting container shipping will <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/liner-shipping-profits-tipped-to-hit-200bn-this-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">notch up a combined EBIT of $200bn this year<\/a><\/span>, up from its revised 2021 total of $190bn.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mailmunch-forms-after-post\" style=\"display: none !important;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2\"> <script>googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1_95_0_1_2'); });<\/script> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta post-bottom-tags post-tags-modern\">\n<div class=\"post-bottom-meta-title\">\n<span class=\"tie-icon-tags\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span> Tags<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/italy\/\" rel=\"tag\">Italy<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/msc\/\" rel=\"tag\">MSC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/splash247.com\/tag\/switzerland\/\" rel=\"tag\">Switzerland<\/a><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>splash247<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airplanes are increasingly the must-have bolt on for cash-rich containerlines, the billionaires of the transport sector, making more money than Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google. The Aponte family controlled Mediterranean Shipping Co (MSC) has tied up with Germany\u2019s Lufthansa in a bid to acquire the majority of Alitalia successor ITA Airways, seeking an exclusivity &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-port-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/28936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}