Grimaldi will ulteriorly upgrade the service MEX that connects the Mediterranean with the West Africa



The shipowning group Grimaldi has announced an ulterior potenziamento of own regular service Mediterranean Express Service (MEX) that it connects the Mediterranean with the West Africa.

Beginning from the next september the frequency of the service will be reduced to ten days regarding current the twelve thanks to the employment of the four ships with-ro/multipurpose Great Ghana, Republic of Argentina, Republic of Brazil and Grande Ivory Coast. Moreover, beginning from beginning 2016, a fifth ship, binoculars of the Great Ghana, will be employed on the route increasing so the cargo ability and improving the frequency ulteriorly.

The Neapolitan shipowning group has explained that thanks to such initiatives service MEX will see increased of beyond 35% own cargo ability, is for container is for rotabili units. Moreover, with the introduction of the fifth ship, the frequency of the service will be reduced to eight days, while the extension of the MEX to other ports situated to South of Nigeria with direct ports of call is previewed.

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).

The ships of "the Great" class have cargo an ideal ability of 1.000 cars/van, 2,800 linear meters of goods rotabile and 700 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, the ships with-ro/multipurpose of the class "Republic" can instead transport 2,800 linear meters of goods rotabile, 700 cars/van and 600 teu each.

The Grimaldi group connects also the Europe North regularly with the West Africa with three regular services employing a fleet of beyond 20 ships with-ro/multipurpose for the transport of rotabili, container and project cargo. Thanks to these connections, the goods in origin from the transported Mediterranean and through service MEX can reach launches other ports of call Africans (Takoradi, Luanda, Pointe Noire, Douala, Libreville, Topic, Freetown, Conakry) indirectly served in transfer to the port of Dakar, important hub of the group in Africa Occidentale.

At last, through its several infra-Mediterranean regular services that land to the port of call hub of Salerno, the group connects West Africa with other Italian ports which Catania, Palermo and Cagliari so as several ports of call of the Mediterranean as Malta, Tunisi, Pireo, Izmir, Mersin, Gemlik, Alexandria, Limassol, Ashdod, Beirut and Lattakia.