The Mediterranean Shipping Company SA (MSC), the world's second shipping line in terms of container vessel capacity, will offer shipping services from the Giurgiulesti Free Port, via Istanbul, to 586 ports across the world plus several thousand inland destinations, Info-Prim Neo reports. In a press release from Danube Logistics SRL, the administrator of the Giurgiulesti Free Port, it was said that the first vessel operated by MSC anchored yesterday at Giurgiulesti with 142 containers and tomorrow it will depart from Moldova carrying 23 containers with grain bound for Taiwan. “The Mediterranean Shipping Company Moldova will offer maximally competitive rates and minimally short shipping times. We are confident that this new weekly container shipping service will become a success story”, said MSC Moldova manager Alexander Di Leonardo. Thomas Moser, the director of Danube Logistics SRL, expressed his confidence that the Mediterranean Shipping Company will offer competitive services for domestic and international companies willing to either import or export containers from Moldova. The Mediterranean Shipping Company SA is a private shipping company based in Geneva, Switzerland. Operating 456 vessels and running 421 local offices in 145 countries, MSC is the world's second shipping line in terms of container vessel capacity.