the Grimaldi group will strengthen the connections with Greece inaugurating in the summer the 2015 Brindisi-Corfù service



The next summer the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi will upgrade own marine connections between Italy and Greece with the inauguration, on July 6, 2015, of a new regular line that will connect the ports of Brindisi, Igoumenitsa and the island of Corfù. The broken new will join already to that offered all the year from the partenopeo group between the ports of Brindisi, Igoumenitsa and Patrasso and operated with the ferries Euroferry Olympia and Euroferry Brindisi.

The new Brindisi-Corfù-Igoumenitsa connection, dedicated to the transport of goods and passengers, will be offered thanks to the employment of a third party ferry, the Catania, constructed in 2003, that it has a tonnage of 26.000 tons, is along 186 meters and it is able to transport 2,250 linear meters of goods rotabile, 1,000 passengers and 170 cars to the continuation.

Between Brindisi and Corfù the frequency of the service will be four times a week with departures from the apulian port of call the monday, Wednesday, friday and saturday to 12,00 hours and arrival to Corfù to hours 19.00. The ripartenza for Brindisi is previewed to hours 23,59 with arrival the day after to hours 8.00. To support of the tourist flow, from on July 27, 2015 until the August end the Brindisi-Corfù service it will become every day, so increasing the total ability to transport of goods and passengers with departures in the same timetables. Moreover with the employment of the Catania ship weeklies magazine from Brindisi for Igoumenitsa will be offered to seven new departures and vice versa. The departure from the apulian port of call will be every day to the hours the 12,00 with arrival to Igoumenitsa tuesdays, thursday and Sunday to 20,00 hours and the remainder of the week to hours 21.00. The departure from Igoumenitsa for Brindisi is previewed every day to hours 22,00 with arrival to Brindisi the day after to the hours the 8,00 tuesdays, thursday and saturday and Sunday and to the hours the 6,00 mondays, Wednesday and friday.

Thanks to the new Brindisi-Corfù-Igoumenitsa connection the Grimaldi group will very strengthen its tie with Brindisi offering the next summer 14 departures weeklies magazine for Igoumenitsa, seven for Patrasso, four and then seven for Corfù and returning in this way the apulian port of call the first port in the Low Adriatic for number of connections towards Greece.

"Since the inauguration of the connections from Brindisi towards Greece in 2012 - Emanuele Grimaldi has said, managing director of the Grimaldi group with brother Gianluca - we have guaranteed the continuity of the service and found smash hit. The launch of the new summery connection for Corfù confirmation the great attention of the group to satisfy the requirements of the market, above all the tourists to which we will offer a reliable service and of to favorable qualities on modern ferries and rates".

"After to have established Brindisi as one of main the hub of the Mediterranean for the goods - it has found the president of the Harbour Authority of Brindisi, Hercules Haralambides - Grimaldi now addresses to serve the traditional connection of Brindisi with Corfù. This new development is greeted very warmly by the Salentine territory and consolidates ulteriorly Brindisi as an international port of call of unquestionable importance for the Region Apulia, is for the transport of goods that of passengers. They are much satisfying".