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Grimaldi introduces a fourth ship in the regular service Mediterranean Express
the "Great Ghana" has placed side by side the "Republic of Argentina", the "Republic of Brazil" and the "Great Ivory Coast"
February 23, 2015
The Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi has upgraded own regular service Mediterranean Express (MEX) that it connects the Mediterranean with the West Africa with the introduction of a fourth ship. The Great Ghana, in fact, has placed side by side to the others three ships already anticipates on the route, the Republic of Argentina, the Republic of Brazil and the Great Ivory Coast.
The ships of "the Great" class have an ideal cargo ability of 2.000 cars/van, 2,000 linear meters of goods rotabile and 800 container teu and are equipped of crane in covered with ability to 40 tons. With a tonnage of about 52.000 tons and a length of 210 meters, ro-ro multipurpose of the class "the Republic" can instead transport ideally 2,400 linear meters of goods rotabile, 700 cars/van and 600 teu each.
Launch in 2010, service MEX is dedicated to the rotabile transport of goods, container and project cargo and directly connects the ports of Valencia, Marseilles, Genoa, Livorno and Salerno with Casablanca (Morocco), Dakar (Senegal), Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Lagos (Nigeria), Cotonou (Benin) and Lome (Togo).
Thanks to the employment of the fourth ship, service MEX has increased of beyond 30% own cargo ability is for container that for rotabili. Moreover the frequency is improved by the precedence 14 days to current the 11 and the port of Livorno recently is included in the service ( on 5 February 2015).
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The Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi has upgraded own regular service Mediterranean Express (MEX) that it connects the Mediterranean with the West Africa with the introduction of a fourth ship. The Great Ghana, in fact, has placed side by side to the others three ships already anticipates on the route, the Republic of Argentina, the Republic of Brazil and the Great Ivory Coast.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
