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The shipowning group Grimaldi has adjudicated the new terminal of short sea shipping of the port of Barcelona
Concession 15-year-old, renewable for others 7,5 years, on an area of about 60.000 square metres to the Muelle Costa
July 22, 2011
The Atlantic society Spa di Navigazione of the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi has adjudicated the new terminal to the Muelle Costa of the port of Barcelona dedicated to the services of short sea shipping. Yesterday in fact the board of directors of the Harbour Authority of the vital Catalan has deliberated the concession of the terminal to the partenopeo group as a result of the published ban of contest last year.
Al Grimaldi group is entrusted the concession 15-year-old, renewable for others 7,5 years, of an area of about 60.000 square metres on which a marine station, infrastructures, areas of storage for goods, fingers and footbridges for the access of the passengers to the ferries directly from the terminal will be constructed. The investment previewed for such project is of about 20 million euros.
"The realization of the new terminal to Barcelona - Emanuele Grimaldi has commented, managing director of the Italian shipowning society - demonstrates the will, by our group, to offer standards of more and more high services and answering to the requirements of our customers. Our objective is to ulteriorly expand and to upgrade the immense net of Freeways of the Sea and harbour terminals in the western Mediterranean, strengthening the role of Barcelona as strategic port of call for services goods and passengers offered from the group".
The port of Barcelona is served by an immense net of services operated from the Grimaldi group. Al moment three is fleeting the connections dedicated to the transport and goods: the every day service with departure from Civitavecchia, operated from the two flagships Cruise Rome and Cruise Barcelona, with port of call to Porto Torres, in Sardinia, in the spring and summery months; the four-week connection with departure from Livorno, and at last that weekly magazine that connects Barcelona with the Moroccan port of Tangeri.
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The Atlantic society Spa di Navigazione of the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi has adjudicated the new terminal to the Muelle Costa of the port of Barcelona dedicated to the services of short sea shipping. Yesterday in fact the board of directors of the Harbour Authority of the vital Catalan has deliberated the concession of the terminal to the partenopeo group as a result of the published ban of contest last year.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
