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Italy and Durban, initially using Wilson Collins as its agent before opening a local office with SA shareholder, Peter Storm, who owned Medite Shipping. Aponte eventually bought Storm out and changed the name to MSC.Aponte promoted Sarno to captain at the age of 26 in 1972. He later joined him in the office in 1976 and went on to work at MSC’s first office in Johannesburg in 1987.“Durban became our home port because I created a technical office here, and for 20 years it has been the port at the centre of the expansion of MSC,” he says.MSC’s growth from its humble beginnings with just one secondhand ship and seven staff, to a global shipping giant – the biggest in the world – with 75 000 employees and more than 700 vessels internationally, proves that dreams do pay, especially for captains like Sarno, whose dreams lifted him on eagles’ wings from Nocera, all the way across the oceans to Durban, some 5 875 nautical miles away.
