It rests of the first stone of the new terminal of the Grimaldi group to Barcelona



Yesterday to the Muelle Costa of the port of Barcelona the ceremony has held for puts down it of the first stone of the new terminal of the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi in the Catalan chief town, that 15-year-old for others seven will be realized with an investment of 20 million euros within a contract of renewable concession of the duration ( on 22 July 2011). To the ceremony several authorities have participated between which Santi Vila, councilman for the Territory and the sustainability of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Guido Grimaldi, corporate truck & trailer commercial director of the group Grimaldi, let alone Mario Massarotti, Logistic managing director of Grimaldi España.

The new structure, than will call Grimaldi Barcelona Terminal, will be composed from a building of three plans for a total of 3.750 square metres, a paved large square and a footbridge with three fingers for the access of the passengers to the ferries directly from the terminal. The all on a surface total of 63.000 square metres. The passenger terminal will be able at the same time to accommodate 1,800 passengers to the boarding and 1,800 to the disembarkation, 1,000 square metres of offices, about 350 square metres of commercial spaces, a restaurant and a conference room.

This investment - Guido Grimaldi has declared - "demonstrates the will more and more to offer levels of service in high based on the requirements of our customers. Our objective is that to improve ulteriorly the immense net of freeways of the sea, being strengthened the role of Barcelona as strategic port of call for services dedicated to the offered passengers and the goods from the Grimaldi group".

The new terminal will accommodate the several connections for offered passengers and goods from the partenopeo shipowning group from and for Barcelona let alone of other marine operators. Currently the Grimaldi group connects every day the Catalan city with Civitavecchia with the employment of cruise-ferry the Cruise Rome and Cruise Barcelona (in the summery period the service is extended also to Porto Torres). The group offers moreover to a connection weekly magazine for passengers and goods for the ports of Livorno and Tangeri let alone a trisettimanale connection for sun goods for the ports of Livorno and Savona.