the Grimaldi group upgrades the Freeway of the Sea that connects the ports of Genoa, Livorno and Catania



The Neapolitan shipowning group Grimaldi has announced a potenziamento of own marine services between continental Italy and the Sicily with the insertion, beginning from the beginning of the next month, a fourth ship ro-ro on the regular line that connects the ports of Genoa, Livorno and Catania, increasing so is the cargo ability that the frequency of the service.

Currently the connection between the three ports is carried out with three modern ships ro-ro of last generation of the class "Eurocargo", each with a cargo ability of 4.000 linear meters of goods rotabile. By May these ships will be placed side by side by the Eurocargo Salerno, with an ability to 2.800 linear meters of rotabile cargo and 500 cars, that it will carry out two ulterior travels weeklies magazine a/r between the ports of Genoa, Livorno and Catania. The initiative will allow to increase the ability to transport of the service of 40.000 trucks and 50,000 cars per year and to offer almost every day frequencies.

To completion of the offer of the services towards the Sicily oriental, the Grimaldi group work the Freeway of the every day Sea between Salerno and Catania and on the adriatic ridge that which connects the ports of Ravenna, Brindisi and Catania with trisettimanale frequency. The western Sicily instead is served with four-week frequency with a link ro-ro between Palermo, Genoa and Livorno. At last the group offers also to a mixed biweekly connection goods and passengers between the Sicilian capital and Salerno.

"With the decision to ulteriorly upgrade the connections towards the Sicily - it has emphasized the managing director of the partenopeo group, Emanuele Grimaldi - the Grimaldi group restates own engagement in coming encounter to the contingent requirements of the market. Without the driven in net of offered Freeways of the Sea from the group towards Catania and Palermo, the conveyors engaged in the commerce between Continente and Sicily would be found to face with greater difficulty the current dramatic emergency of the Sicilian practicability".

"In a region, the Sicily, already strongly penalized for the chronic infrastructural deficiencies - Cinzia Franchini has confirmed, national president of the association of road haulage CNA Fita - the closing of the Palermo-Catania freeway risks to carry to the collapse many enterprises of the road haulage that gives years debates between the many problems of the field. Therefore we learn with great satisfaction the decision of the Grimaldi group to upgrade the connection between the Sicily oriental and continental the Italy North".