Mantua & De Iacovo Shipping Srl is a shipping agency made up of professionals who gathered together after more or less 30 years of experience in the maritime field. Its activities center around the ship’s agency but not limited to that solely; we have also expertise as a forwarding agency dealing with containers, intermodal transports and integrated logistics and we are also Customs Brokers, Marine & Cargo Surveyors, P&I Correspondents.
Our fields of action are set out hereinafter:
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Loading/unloading of any cargo onto/from any kind of vessel or any other means; Goods forwarding and customs clearance;
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Warehousing;
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Less Container Load/Full Container Load shipments to and from all over the world; Freight canvassing;
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Ship and cargo surveys, such as: “pre-loading and post-loading surveys”, “draft surveys”, “stowage surveys”, “condition surveys”, and so on;
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Independent maritime consulting services;
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P&I Correspondence;
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Goods added value services;
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Certified translations;
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Training courses;
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Marketing research.
Our experiences at your service
Mr. Mantua Antonio is a licensed Ship’s Agent (Foundation Diploma in Port Agency” + Advanced Diploma in Shipping Business and Logistics and Multi-Modal Transport, released by the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers London, registration no. 31955) and a licensed Marine and cargo Surveyor. He held the position of the p.i.c. for the P&I correspondence in the port of Taranto from 1995 to 2010. He is in possession of the “Full IMDG Code (Amendment 40-20) Certificate”. He is also an accredited expert to Taranto’s Court-House, as well as a licensed PFSO.
since 25 November 2024 elected President of the port section of Taranto’s Industrial Association “Confindustria”; since 05 December 2024 elected unanimously Vice-President of the Regional Association of the Shipping Agents, “Raccomar Apulia”; Vice-President of the Ionian Shipping Consortium of Taranto for 5 years; just reconfirmed as representative of the Chamber of Commerce of Brindisi-Taranto within the Commission of Shipping Agents for the ports of Brindisi and Taranto.
since 25 November 2024 elected President of the port section of Taranto’s Industrial Association “Confindustria”; since 05 December 2024 elected unanimously Vice-President of the Regional Association of the Shipping Agents, “Raccomar Apulia”; Vice-President of the Ionian Shipping Consortium of Taranto for 5 years; just reconfirmed as representative of the Chamber of Commerce of Brindisi-Taranto within the Commission of Shipping Agents for the ports of Brindisi and Taranto.
Mr. De Iacovo has a degree in English and French literature but he has always worked in a ship’s agency as a logistics operator. He is a licensed and qualified expert of maritime transports; he cooperated with Mr. Mantua in writing his books and his area of expertise is containerisation and all the matters pertaining to the shipping agency.He is also a licensed PFSO and an accredited expert to Taranto’s Court-House and he is in possession of the “Full IMDG Code Certificate (Amendment 40-20)”.
Degree in business management, marketing and strategy.
Degree in business management, marketing and strategy. He is a licensed ship-agent and manages the operations department. He is in possession of the “Full IMDG Code (Amendment 40-20) Certificate”.