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The Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi upgrades the new service Mediterranean Express
A ship of greater ability is used and is inserted new ports of call directed to Casablanca and Tema
February 3, 2011
The Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi has upgraded the new service Mediterranean Express (MEX), dedicated to the rotabile transport of goods, container and project cargo, than from the slid autumn it connects the Mediterranean with the West Africa ( on 13 October 2010).
Today the group has replaced the Thebeland ship employed on the route with the ship Republic of Rome and has introduced new ports of call directed to Casablanca and Tema, this last one previously offered in transfer.
Ro/ro multipurpose the Republic of Rome, that it has a tonnage of 42.000 tons and a length of 216 meters, can transport until 650 teu, 1,200 cars/van and 2,200 linear meters of rotabile cargo to a speed of 18 knots. Thanks to the introduction of this unit, the cargo ability offered from the partenopeo group on this route increases of beyond 48%, besides the 1,200 cars/van, regarding the replaced ship. The unit moreover is equipped of two crane on the main deck in a position to enlivening cargos until 40 tons of having weight and of a ramp for the boarding of rotabili units a weight until 150 tons.
The broken new connects the ports of Salerno, Genoa, Marseilles and Valencia with Casablanca, Dakar (Senegal), Lome (Togo), Lagos (Nigeria) Cotonou (Benin) and Topic (Ghana) every 18 days.
Currently the Grimaldi group connects the Europe North with the West Africa with three various regular services employing about 20 con/ro-multipurpose ships for the transport of rotabili, container and project cargo. Thanks to these connections, the goods in origin from the transported Mediterranean and with service MEX can be reshipped to Dakar and to continue for the ports of Banjul (Gambia), Conakry (Guinea), Freetown (Sierra Leone), Monrovia (Liberia), Libreville (Gabon), Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and Douala (Cameroun).
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The Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi has upgraded the new service Mediterranean Express (MEX), dedicated to the rotabile transport of goods, container and project cargo, than from the slid autumn it connects the Mediterranean with the West Africa 
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
