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Aldo Grimaldi returns to the direct management of the ships
Holding Grimaldi Thursday will inaugurate a new trisettimanale service Augusta - Salerno dedicated mainly to the goods
November 5, 2012
Completed three months ago the ninety years, Aldo Grimaldi has decided to return to the direct management of the ship of the fleet of Holding Grimaldi, society constituted in 2003 and in which the shipowner own activities in concomitanza have made to meet all as a result of the escape in 2009 from the Great shareholders of the Navi Veloci ( on 12 June 2009).
The return will be realized with the inauguration next thursday of new trisettimanale line Augusta - Salerno - Augusta mainly dedicated to the field goods and operated with the ship Audacity, of 25.000 tons of tonnage, that it more has a cargo ability of rotabili of 2.500 linear meters (or than 1.000 cars) and of some 500 people enclosed the crew.
"We are many contents of the start of this new draft - Aldo Grimaldi has declared - because as well as to see us newly operating as managers of our ship, those productive truths of the Sicily represent an opportunity for all oriental who will be able three times a week in about 12 hours, to propose own goods on the main markets of the Italy center-south and the north the west with fast, sure and comfortable means". "We are pleasing - it has added - to the Harbour Authorities of Augusta and Salerno that have shared with we this project having afforded us to once again connect two important and strategic truths of our country, giving test of the importance and the sustainability of the "Freeways of the Sea"".
The service previews departures evening from Augusta the tuesday (hours 23,00), the thursday (the 23,00) and saturdays (23,00) and departures from Salerno Wednesday (19,30), friday (19,30) and Sunday (19,30) with transit a medium Time of about 12 hours. Between the facilitations that the company intends to offer to own customers haulers are also the dinner and the free breakfast on board.
Today the fleet of property of Holding Grimaldi is composed from five of the eight ferry cruise making part of the store clerk gives beyond 500 million euros constructed from 2005 to 2010 near the New Apuania Yards and today rented to primary Italian and foreign companies of navigation.
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