Grimaldi will activate a new direct service for the transport of motor vehicles between the port of Civitavecchia and the America North



The next month the Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi will inaugurate a new direct service that will connect the port of Civitavecchia with the North American ports of call of Baltimora and Halifax Regional Municipality for the transport of automobiles and other goods rotabile. The new line, that the first it will be directed and regular one between the Mediterranean and the America North for the field ro-ro/car carrier, thanks to the employment of four ships carries automobiles that have an ability total of cargo of 25.000 cars will guarantee transit a single Time of 13 days between Italy and Nord America. The route previews, in sequence, ports of call in the ports of Gemlik (Turkey), Bar (Montenegro), Civitavecchia, Baltimora (the USA), Halifax Regional Municipality (Canada) and Antwerp (Belgium).

The new connection will be of support also for export of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) for the transport of the new models Fiat 500X and Jeep Renegade - the first manufactured jeep out-of-bounds of the United States - produced near the plant of Melfi (Potenza).

"With this service - it has emphasized the president of the Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia, Fiumicino and Gaeta, Pasqualino Monti - the port of Civitavecchia, thanks to the connubio with Grimaldi and FCA, becomes the hub commercial from which making to share Italy. It is not a case that the export of the Italian production of car, maintained to Melfi as from engagement of the managing director of FCA Sergio Marchionne with the prime Minister Matteo Renzi, it resumes from Civitavecchia, than after to have consolidated the supremacy in the cruises own challenge for the goods has launch leaving again from a traffic that in recent years had reached turned out remarkable in import. An important agreement is reached, also for the occupational implications that it will have, between one of the main industrial marks of the country, one of the first world-wide shipowners and the port of Rome that once again it has known to make itself to find ready in record time realizing necessary infrastructures".

"For Civitavecchia - it has continued Monti - 2015 will be a decisive year. Beyond to a new supremacy for the cruises, in fact they are attended the resumption of the freeways of the sea and the beginning of the true challenge in the commercial traffics, with start of new determinants participations, beginning from the energetic dock great masses with the new terminal container, for the construction of the Platform Latium, that it will constitute new the main one alone fly of economic development for the future of the port, the city and all the territory of high the Latium".

"We are - Emanuele Grimaldi has declared, managing director of the Grimaldi group - many contents to consolidate, thanks to the engagement and farsightedness of its president Pasqualino Monti, ours partnership with the port of Civitavecchia that it has known to pick an opportunity of ulterior development of own traffics". From Italians - it has added brother Gianluca, president of the shipowning group - we consider ourselves proud of being able to contribute, through this innovative connection, to the promotion of the export of "made in Italy" and to the automotive resumption of the production in Italy".

The port of Civitavecchia plays a strategic role in the driven in net of offered marine connections from the Grimaldi group: they give beyond 10 years the Euro-Aegean service, dedicated to the transport of rotabili new cars and goods, connects Civitavecchia with ports weekly is of the Mediterranean (Setubal, Valencia, Livorno, Salerno, Palermo, Pireo, Alexandria, Beirut, Tripoli, Lattakia, Mersin, Gemlik, Yenikoy) that of the North Europe (Amburgo, Antwerp, Portbury, Southampton and Flushing); moreover Civitavecchia is a port of call of primary importance in the net of offered freeways of the sea from the group in the western Mediterranean: currently, the partenopeo group regularly connects the port of Civitavecchia with Barcelona, Porto Torres and Tunisi for the rotabili transport of goods (automobiles, van, truck and semitowings) and passengers.

While Finnlines, company of the Grimaldi group that work marine services for the transport of rotabili and passengers in the Baltic Sea and the Sea of the North, has announced the acquisition of two ships ro-ro that they will be introduced in service in the end of this year on the routes in the Sea of the North.