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New freeway of the sea Ravenna - Igoumenitsa - Patrasso of the Grimaldi group
It will have biweekly frequency and it will be inaugurated on 19 December
December 12, 2013
Next thursday the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi will inaugurate a new freeway of the sea between Italy and the Greece that will connect the ports of Ravenna, Igoumenitsa and Patrasso. The service of rotabile transport of goods and passengers will be realized with the ferry boat Euroferry long Olympia 183 meters, wide 28,50 meters and with a cargo ability of about 200 trucks and semitowings and 600 passengers, arranged in reclining cabin and seats.
The new service will have biweekly frequency: the departures from Ravenna will be the Wednesday to the hours the 12,00 and saturdays to hours 18,00, with arrival to Igoumenitsa respective to hours 15,00 of thursday and hours 21,30 of Sunday, and to Patrasso to hours 22,30 of thursday and hours 5,00 of monday. The inverse distance previews departures from the Greek port of Patrasso the monday to the hours the 22,00 and thursdays to hours 23,59, from Igoumenitsa instead the tuesday to the hours the 6,00 and fridays to the hours the 9,30 with arrival to Ravenna Wednesdays to the hours the 7,00 and saturdays to hours 12.00.
The new marine connection will join already to those offered from the Grimaldi group between Italy and Greece through Grimaldi Lines and Minoan Lines: currently Grimaldi Lines offers every day departures between Brindisi, Igoumenitsa and Patrasso for the transport of goods and passengers let alone a departure weekly magazine between Genoa, Livorno, Catania and Patrasso for rotabili sun goods; moreover controlled the Greek Minoan Lines connects the ports of Ancona and Trieste with Igoumenitsa and Patrasso, respective is and three times a week, employing three modern ferries, two de which, the Cruise Europe and the Cruise Olympia, are the cruise ferry larger of the Mediterranean.
The Neapolitan group has remembered that, through transfer in the ports of call of Catania and Brindisi, the road haulage societies can have use of moreover of the other regular services of the Grimaldi group towards the Sicily, Malta and Libya. Currently the partenopeo group offers trisettimanali departures from Brindisi towards Catania, let alone departures four times a week from Catania for Malta and weeklies magazine from Malta for Libya (Tripoli, Al Khoms).
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Next thursday the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi will inaugurate a new freeway of the sea between Italy and the Greece that will connect the ports of Ravenna, Igoumenitsa and Patrasso. The service of rotabile transport of goods and passengers will be realized with the ferry boat Euroferry long Olympia 183 meters, wide 28,50 meters and with a cargo ability of about 200 trucks and semitowings and 600 passengers, arranged in reclining cabin and seats.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
