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Tomorrow the Grimaldi group will inaugurate the new freeway of the trisettimanale sea Genoa-Valencia
It will be operated with two ships in a position to transporting 1,600 towings to week from both ports, besides 72 guided and 1,500 cars
November 21, 2011
Tomorrow the Grimaldi group will inaugurate a new freeway of the sea between the ports of Genoa and Valencia. They give beyond ten years the partenopeo shipowning group offers services of trisettimanale line from the ports of Salerno, Cagliari and Livorno for the Spanish port of call, than by tomorrow it will be connected also with a new marine service dedicated to the transport goods in departure from the genoese port.
The new Genoa-Valencia line will have trisettimanale frequency: the departures from the capital of Liguria will happen the Wednesday, the friday and Sunday to hours 05,00, while from Valencia for Genoa the Wednesday, thursday and saturday to hours 20.00.
To serve the new connection they will be the two ships ro-ro of new generation Eurocargo Valencia and Cragside, in a position to transporting 1,600 towings to week from both ports, besides 72 driven and 1,500 automobiles.
The Grimaldi group has evidenced that, with a transit-Time of about 24 hours, the new freeway of the sea will allow to avoid not only the congestions of a distance via road of beyond 1.300 kilometers, but to guarantee also saving of fuel, regularity and punctuality of delivery. Moreover Valencia is considered as the natural port of Madrid, from which it is distant alone 350 kilometers.
"The launch of the new marine line Genoa-Valencia - it has commented the managing director of the Grimaldi group, Emanuele Grimaldi - demonstrates our engagement wanting to strengthen our driven in net of freeways of the sea in the Mediterranean. To benefit some they will be not only the logistic operators of the industrial triangle Milano-Torino-Genova, but also companies that operate beyond the Italian borders and of the Europe North, that they will have use of a fast, efficient and regular connection with Valencia, main logistic pole of all the traffics from and towards Spain center-meridional and Portugal".
With the launch of the new line the Grimaldi Group consolidates and expands its presence in the connections between Italy and Spain: the new line in fact, joins to those already existing between Livorno, Civitavecchia, Salerno, Cagliari, Porto Torres and the ports of Barcelona and Valencia.
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