Grimaldi Lines upgrades the freeway of the Salerno-Catania sea



The freeway of the Salerno-Catania sea with inaugurated triesttimanale frequency at the beginning of 2012 from the Neapolitan Grimaldi Lines ( on 16 January 2012) it is upgraded returning it a service daily. The two ships ro-pax twin employees on the route, the Eurocargo Naples and the Euroferry Malta, each with cargo ability of 124 means between truck and trailer, 250 automobiles and passengers in cabin or seat, will daily leave in fact from both ports to hours with next 19,30 arrival at 10.30 a.m.

Support to the initiative of the partenopea shipowning company is assured by the mayor of Catania, Enzo Bianco: "for us - it has emphasized - the connections are vital and who invests on Catania it will have from we every type of incentive and aid". "The port of Catania - it has added White - by now consolidates an historical relationship with Grimaldi and we appreciate the far-sighted choice very to double the connection between two between the Italian cities more dynamics. Our auspice is that Grimaldi, but also other companies, make of Catania a hub for the euromediterranei connections. And already today Catania is connected directly or indirectly with very sixteen ports: they are those freeways of the sea that can allow with our goods to reach new markets".

The extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Catania, Cosimo Aiello, has evidenced the importance of the born freeways of the sea "- he has remembered - as a service of alternative marine transport to cargo handling on rubber, more expensive and polluting. And during the last few years - Aiello has said - the EU has developed cohesion politics in order to connect the European ports of the Mediterranean with the ports of call of the Maghreb".

Taking part to the presentation of the potenziamento of the service held near the center of the harbour agency of Catania, Eugenio Grimaldi, manager of the Grimaldi group, it has rimarcato as the partenopea company has created "for all the productive basin of Catania and the Sicily oriental a system of alternative transport to that on the road to regulate, efficient, reliable and economically favorable". "In less ten-year-old - it has specified - Grimaldi Lines has placed Catania in the middle of a net of marine connections that embraces is Italy is ports of the Mediterranean in Spain, Greece, Tunisia, Malta and Montenegro".