Grimaldi will strengthen the Livorno-Olbia service and will inaugurate a every day connection Civitavecchia-Olbia



From the half of the next month the partenopeo shipowning group Grimaldi will strengthen own marine connections for the transport of passengers and goods from and for the Sardinia having upgraded the Livorno-Olbia service and at the same time inaugurating a every day line between the ports of Civitavecchia and Olbia.

In particular, the every day connection Livorno-Olbia, inaugurated 11th January, will be upgraded with the employment of the ship Cruise Olbia, ferry of new generation, that it will replace the current Zeus Palace. Long 204 meters, the Cruise Olbia is able to transport 1,600 passengers and 2,400 linear meters of rotabile cargo and fleeting cars to continuation. Grimaldi has specified that with the breaking in of the ship the offered services "top quality" on board will be bound together to tariff politics "low-cost".

The ship ro-pax Zeus Palace instead will be used in order to activate the new Civitavecchia-Olbia connection, than - Emanuele Grimaldi has explained, managing director of the Grimaldi group with brother Gianluca - the "success unprecedented of the Livorno-Olbia connection will be started as a result of, started only little weeks ago". The frequency of the new service will be every day with departure from Civitavecchia to 22,45 hours and arrival to Olbia to hours 07.00; I re-enter from Olbia will be to hours 12,30 with arrival previewed to Civitavecchia to hours 19.00. Long 212 meters, Zeus Palace can transport 1,500 passengers and 2,500 linear meters of rotabile cargo and fleeting cars to continuation.

The activation of the new Civitavecchia-Olbia line is received with satisfaction from the representatives of the authorities of the two harbour ports of call. "The start of this new every day connection - the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Civitavecchia has commented, Pasqualino Monti - is an ulterior service that will be able to offer the port of Civitavecchia thanks to the Grimaldi group, than confirmation so, once more, than to head at our port of call as one of the own main hub, it is for the traffic ro-pax, than for single the goods, to light - it has remembered - of the success that it is obtaining the line towards the USA for FCA (Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles), that the most important pole of the automotive has in fact launch new".

"We favorably receive the bet of the Grimaldi group - it has specified the extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of the Sardinia North, Pietro Preziosi - since turns to I throw again of the traffics from and for the Sardinia in a moment of gradual escape from the crisis of the marine transport. From always this Port Authority the creation of new connections by the various shipowning groups, own has favorite because, so as it happens for the industry of the cruises, they are from in general terms considering important vehicles of economic well-being for the island and the harbour community that receives them in particular".