Services:
Air Freight Services; Cargo Handling Contractors; Cargo Superintendents; Cargo Surveyors; Chartering Agents; Container & Transport Operators; Container Storage; Cruise Liner Agents; Customs Brokers/Agents; Discharging/Loading Assistance to Vessels; Freight Brokers; Freight Forwarders; Groupage Bond Operators; Insurance Services; Logistics, Storage & Warehousing Facilities; Registration of Ships & Yachts; Ship Brokers; Ship Chandlers; Shipping Agents; Surveying & Loss Adjusting Services; Travel Services; Yacht Agents.
Profile:
The business is a private family held and controlled company which has been active in international trade and commerce for well over one hundred years. The origins of the company date back to the late 19th century when the founder Icilio Bianchi established a company dealing in maritime affairs known as the Mercantile Shipping & Coaling Co. Bianchi & Co. (Malta) Ltd. At that time Bianchi & Co. (Egypt) Ltd was also established. Over the years to 1964, when all foreign enterprises in Egypt were nationalised, this company was the leading shipping agency. Following this, and since the privatisation of the Transport and Shipping sector in Egypt, the Bianchi interest has been conserved with Egyptian Partners who together have established the now leading shipping agency Medlevant Shipping Company S.A.E. with headquarters at 9, Hussein Hassab Street, al Khartoum Square, Alexandria. After the Nationalisation of their assets in Egypt, the Bianchis concentrated their efforts developing and enlarging their Maltese Company.
The Maltese Company was heavily involved in ship agency work and port services and operated a large fleet of tugs and barges under the name ‘The Alliance Lighter Company’ through which the Company, together with others, developed a towage company known as Midmed Towage Company.