The shipowning group Italian Messina upgrades the offer for Turkey, India, Spain and France



The shipowning society Italian Ignazio Messina & C. Spa has announced a new line for Turkey, the widening of the offer of the ports in India and the potenziamento of own services for France and Spain thanks to the commissioning of new ships and to the positive answer of the market.

On own Mediterranean line - Red Sea - Arabic Gulf - India the Messina group will insert two ships full hands taken container from 2.470 teu rental that will be integrated with-ro of property and clappers Italian flag employed Jolly Arancione and Jolly Nero on the route. Beyond to a considerable increase of hold, I rearrange will afford to offer to a departure from Genoa every 12 days with 2.500 linear meters of rotabile space every 24 days. Moreover the service will be extended to Spain, with directed ports of call to Castellon, and reinforced in India with the addition of the two new ports: Cochin on the western coast and Tuticorin on that oriental.

Messina will upgrade also the Mediterranean line - Red Sea - East Africa - South Africa with the employment of two ships ro-ro with greater ability to hold, Jolly Corallo and Jolly Zaffiro, that they will place side by side ro-ro to Jolly Verde and Jolly Bianco. With the four units, all of property and Italian flag, the hold offer will increase considerable. Moreover the service will be extended to Spain with landings place directed to Barcelona maintaining the quattordicinale frequency.

The Messina group will continue to operate the Mediterranean line - Africa Occidentale with three ships of property and Italian flag, ro-ro Jolly Rosso and Jolly Marrone and with-ro Jolly Argento with regular departures every 14 days from fast Naples, Genoa, Marseilles, Barcelona and Castellon and yields on the main ports of the area (Dakar, Abidjan, Lagos and Tema).

In the line for the Mediterranean Oriental, besides the historical ports of call of Alexandria and Beirut, the port of call to Mersina (Turkey will be inserted) and, besides Genoa and Naples, the service will touch also Marseilles. With-ro, Jolly Oro of property and Italian flag, and ro-ro rental the Thebeland, larger and fast of the units previously employees, the frequency of the departures will be every nine days.

Unchanged the other infra-Mediterranean services of the group with regular ports of call and dedicated lines for the ports of Tunisi, Malta and Algeri.

Messina has confirmed that the service remains at the moment suspended for Libya where the shipowning society work until from the year of its foundation, in 1921. The evolution of the associate-political situation of the North African Country - it has specified the company - is monitored daily with the precise will to resume to regularly scale the ports of Tripoli, Khoms, possible Misurata and Benghazi as soon as.

The Italian group has emphasized that, waiting for by now the next delivery previewed for the next month of september of ro-ro portacontenitori Jolly Diamante, before the four new constructions ordered to the Korean yards Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co. ( on 16 December 2009), the plan of commercial strengthening will have fallen back positive directed on the Terminal of Genoa and therefore on the program of activity of the company.