the new terminal you ferry of Grimaldi to Barcelona


Yesterday in the port of Barcelona is inaugurated Grimaldi Barcelona Terminal, the new terminal you ferry of the Italian shipowning society Grimaldi that is realized with an investment of approximately 20 million euros to the Muelle Costa of the Catalan port of call and that the Neapolitan company has will manage within a contract of concession of the renewable duration 15-year-old for others 7,5 years.

To the ceremony has participated the Spanish minister of the Economic Development, Ana Pastor, the councilman for the Enterprise and Occupazione of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Felip Puig, councilman for the Territory and Sostenibilità, Santi Vila, the mayor of Barcelona, Xavier Trias, Cardinal and archbishop of Barcelona, Lluis Martinez Sistach, the president of the Harbour Authority of Barcelona, Sixte Cambra, and the managing director of the group Grimaldi, Emanuele Grimaldi.

the new infrastructure, designed from archietto Yannic Levêque of society IDOM, is 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, approximately 350 square metres of commercial spaces, a restaurant and a conference room.

Currently the Grimaldi group connects every day (except Sunday) Barcelona 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). From the vital Catalan the Italian 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.

"the investment of Grimaldi - it has emphasized the minister Ana Pastor - will carry more wealth, plus employment and above all better infrastructures in favor of the citizen". "The ministry - it has added - is working actively in order to reduce the harbour taxes and to make so that also thanks to Grimaldi the city of Barcelona is opened so to the port as the port is opened to the city".

"This investment - Emanuele Grimaldi has declared - demonstrates the strategic importance that it covers the port of Barcelona in the net of freeways of the sea that our group is developing during the last few years in the Mediterranean. Our objective is to offer standards of more and more high services and answering to the requirements of our customers".

the president of the harbour agency of Barcelona, Sixte Cambra, has evidenced as the port short supports from years the importance of the marine transport beam like model of efficient and sustainable transport; this engagement - it has explained - "has afforded to the port to become port short leader in the marine transport beam in Spain and one of the more important in the South of Europe, with consolidated connections and of quality like those offered from the Grimaldi group".