The Grimaldi group for Sicily upgrades own marine services from and the Sardinia



The shipowning group Grimaldi has announced a potenziamento of own marine services for passengers and goods from and for Sicily and the Sardinia. By next monday in fact the current four-week connection ro-ro between the ports of Genoa will be extended to Cagliari, Livorno and Palermo. The service will offer transit to a Time of 17 hours from Genoa and 16 hours from Livorno for the Sardinian chief town with departures from Genoa for Cagliari every tuesday, Wednesday, friday and saturday, from Livorno every monday, tuesday, saturday and Sunday. Instead the departures from Cagliari for Genoa and Livorno every monday will happen, Wednesday, thursday and saturday. The service will be operated with the two ships ro-ro Eurocargo Savona and Eurocargo Alexandria, each with cargo an ability of about 250 rotabili means and 450 cars.

Moreover from next tuesday the line ro-ro between Livorno and Palermo, currently operated from the Grimaldi group four times a week from both ports, will come ulteriorly upgraded thanks to the employment of the Europalink ferry that has a cargo ability of 4.320 linear meters of goods rotabile (trailer, vans, car, etc) and of 1.000 passengers, with wide ability to places in cabin for drivers, allowing so acceptance on board with all the accompanied trucks. With the insertion of the Europalink the connection between the Leighorn port of call and fleeting the sicilian chief town will become every day and will be extended also to the field. The three departures weeklies magazine of the new unit will happen from Livorno the monday, Wednesday and friday and from Palermo the tuesday, thursday and saturday. All the departures will be to the hours 23:30 while arrival estimated time will be to the hours 17:30 of the day after.

The partenopeo shipowning group has emphasized that the addition of the port of Cagliari in the marine service between Genoa, Livorno and Palermo will allow to connect the Sardinia to the Italy North and to the Sicily offering new opportunities of transport are for the goods in import that for those in export. In particular, it will afford to offer a new service for goods rotabili between the Sardinian chief town and Palermo, first directed between the two islands operated from the group. The departures from Cagliari will be the monday, Wednesday, thursday and Sunday and from Palermo Sunday, monday, thursday and friday. As for the potenziamento of the Livorno-Palermo line, thanks to the increment of the speed and the frequency of the service of it they will benefit in particular also the companies that transport goods which ortofrutticoli, ittici and pharmaceutical producing highly perishable.