· Published in The Corporate Silk Road

The promises of the New Silk Road in Italy: The case of MSC

The Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) is one of the world’s biggest shipping companies. Its massive vessels transport containers full of goods across the globe, spewing out pollution as they go and making a fortune for its owners, the billionaire Aponte family.
By Corporate Watch

The expansion of ports and ‘mega-corridors’ are good news for them: more ports and more trade means more shipping. They also make money directly from their investments in the ports themselves. Following on from Re:Common’s report on the ‘New Silk Road in Italy’, we now look at MSC in detail, looking at the company’s operations, the people behind it and its devastating impact.

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By Corporate Watch

Published by the European Network of Corporate Observatories (ENCO), on behalf of Corporate Watch.

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