Meridian Shipping & Chartering S.r.l.

Meridian is a dynamic company of skilled and chartered operators committed to the shipping industry since 1960. As the only active brokers in Taranto, Italy, Meridian currently operates with major Italian and European shipping companies. We select vessels featuring the highest safety standards at the most competitive rates, offering our contracting clients tailored solutions for dry and break-bulk loads. Acting as a flexible single-window solution, Meridian daily assists local small and medium enterprises in their internationalization processes by handling their goods to a number of Mediterranean and European destinations. Key industry and tourism players such as steel mills, the oil and gas industry, and cruise and luxury yacht companies have entrusted us with agency and port services through the management of hundreds of commercial calls and technical stops. Meridian is part of the most influential business associations in these sectors on a national and European scale, and has a series of surety tools enabling customers to operate safely even with sensitive traffic and dual-use goods, as well as to speed up import/export formalities with the relevant authorities. As independent shipbrokers, Meridian offers competitive broking, dry chartering, tanker chartering, documentary credit consulting and export management, stowage planning, satellite tracking and marketing intelligence. Our shipping agency, based in Taranto and operating in all main Italian ports through the Agency Hub Service, offers port agency and husbandry, general and liner agency, yacht support and refitting, stevedoring services, and ship and yacht supplies.