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the Italian Med Cross Lines signs an agreement with the shipowning group Finnish Eckerö
The partnership it is realized through a social participation and an increase of the share capital
October 2, 2013
The company of Italian navigation Med Cross Lines (MXL), than for a year work services between the adriatic ports and the North Africa (Libya and Algeria) and Turkey, has signed an agreement of strategic collaboration with the shipowning group Finnish Eckerö that is active in the Baltic Sea with routes ferry in which it employs three ships of type ro-pax and that it has moreover a fleet of seven ships ro-ro/container some of which rented in Time-charter from MXL.
Med Cross Lines has explained that with the new partnership, realized through a social participation and an important increase of the share capital, MXL can now count on an adequate number of ships to employ gradually in the intra-Mediterranean services based on that which will be the question of the market.
The Italian company has remembered that from the next November it previews the employment of other ships in the segment West Med with a new service, always with destination Libya and Algeria, that will scale the ports of Sagunto and Tarragona in Spain, Marseilles in France and an Italian port in the Tyrrhenian one. Moreover the Adriatic service ulteriorly will be improved reducing the frequency and the transit-Time and adding the port of call of the Pireo.
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