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Grimaldi will upgrade own service Mediterranean Express ulteriorly
"Great Ivory Coast" will be introduced the new con/ro-multipurpose, successively replaced from the ships "Republic of Brazil" and Republic of Argentina"
June 13, 2011
The next month the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi will upgrade own service Mediterranean Express (MEX ulteriorly) that the new ship connects the Mediterranean with con/ro-multipurpose Africa Occidentale introducing to you Great Ivory Coast that is constructed by the Croatian yards Uljanik of Pula. Next the 4 July the unit will be employed, for its maiden voyage, on route MEX in substitution of the current Eurocargo Istanbul.
The Great Ivory Coast is long 214 meters, wide 32,25 meters, a tonnage of 50.000 tons and a speed of service of 20 knots. Its ideal cargo ability is of 1.500 cars/van to which 2,500 linear meters of rotabile cargo join and 800 container teu.
The next insertion of the Great Ivory Coast on the Grimaldi lines between the North Europe and West Africa will allow with the Neapolitan group to place, already from the end of July, the ship Republic of Brazil on the service Mediterranean Express, while its twin Republic of Argentina will place side by side it from the september end. With a tonnage of about 52.000 tons and a length of 206 meters, each of these con/ro-multipurpose ships it can transport 2,400 linear meters of goods rotabile, 700 cars/van and 600 teu. Thanks to the employment of these two unit, service MEX will increase of 40% own cargo ability, is for container that for rotabili, while the frequency will improve from current the 18 days to about 16.
Service MEX, dedicated to the rotabile transport of goods, container and project cargo, currently connects directly the ports of Salerno, Genoa, Marseilles and Valencia with Casablanca (Morocco), Dakar (Senegal), Lome (Togo), Lagos (Nigeria), Cotonou (Benin) and Topic (Ghana).
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The next month the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi will upgrade own service Mediterranean Express (MEX ulteriorly) that the new ship connects the Mediterranean with con/ro-multipurpose Africa Occidentale introducing to you Great Ivory Coast that is constructed by the Croatian yards Uljanik of Pula. Next the 4 July the unit will be employed, for its maiden voyage, on route MEX in substitution of the current Eurocargo Istanbul.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
