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Grimaldi Lines starts a new freeway of the trisettimanale sea between the ports of Salerno and Catania
Connection weekly magazine with the Maltese port of the TV assistant
January 16, 2012
The Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi has activated a new connection for rotabili and passengers between the ports of Salerno, Catania and the TV assistant (Malta). The line has a trisettimanale cadence between Salerno and Catania and weekly magazine with the Maltese port. The departures from of the Campania port happen to hours 22,30 of the tuesday, thursday and saturday, while the ship sails from Catania to hours 22,30 of the days of monday, Wednesday and friday.
The new freeway of the sea is operated with the Translubeca ship, long 159,14 meters and wide 25,30 meters, that it has a tonnage of 24.727 tons, are equipped of 34 cabins and an ability to 105 passengers and 2.000 linear meters of cargos ro-ro, for a total of beyond 130 commercial means between truck and semitowings to which they will be able to join average exceptional, containers, machinery, new cars and other rotabili.
The Grimaldi group has emphasized that the connection Salerno - Catania - Salerno is proposed as a valid alternative to the street transport combining the industrial basin of the Sicily oriental, that has its pole in the city of Catania, with all the Italian peninsula thanks to the strategic location of of the Campania port of Salerno, close Naples and in proximity of the main highway connections for Rome and all the center-south. Cooled drivers and means used after the transport of fresh fruits and producing, so as industrial cargos and of groupage - it has explained the company - will be able to travel from Salerno to Catania being avoided the slows down and the long tails of the alternative street feature, finding in the new line convenience, safety and saving in the costs.
"The activation of the new line - the president of the Harbour Authority of Salerno has commented, Andrea Annunziata - once again demonstrates the ability to our port to provoke interest and appreciation for own entrepreneurial and operating abilities. To the development of the commercial traffics - it has added - they have sure contributed the investments that we are carrying out in order to upgrade the harbour infrastructures and services, returning the port of Salerno more and more competitive and increasing, moreover, also the occupational fallen back ones of the specialistic work force and the induced one".
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