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Corsica Sardinia Ferries celebrates its ties with the Sardinia and the port of Nice
Introduced the new flagship "Mega Andrea"
May 31, 2016
Today, on board of Mega Andrea, the new flagship of own fleet, the navigation company Corsica Sardinia Elba Ferries has celebrated the 35 years to the service of the Sardinia, the inauguration of new lines and the 20 years of connections from the port of Nice. The brand Sardinia Ferries in fact has been born in 1981 with the acquisition by Corsica Ferries of company TTE.
The company has evidenced that, in particular in the last seasons, Corsica Sardinia Ferries it has made ahead continues steps in the engagement towards the Sadegna, sharing fully the objective of repositioning of the perception of the island as accessible goal to the various tourist targets, and the tie with the territory has been made gradually more and more tightened and is realized through the synergies with the local institutions.
Corsica Sardinia Ferries has emphasized that an ulterior step ahead in the dedication towards the Sardinia Nice-Gulf is the broken new Oranges and Torres Tolone-Port that - it has explained the company - they open firmly to new markets, in particular to that transalpine, while the connections between the Sardinia and the Corsica, Gulf Old Orange-Port and Port Old Torres-Port, will still enrich more the commercial offer of the company and will favor the economic and social relations between the two "Twin Islands ".
Corsica Sardinia Ferries has celebrated also the 20 years of service from the port of Nice from which it has always connected only the Corsica and that now the company, with the new active line with Golfo Aranci from the next month, it will connect also with the Sardinia. "We believe in the development of the Sardinia from France - it has specified the commercial director of Corsica Sardinia Elba Ferries, Raoul Zanelli Bono - since the transalpine market, that it records already considerable numbers, shows a great interest for the destination, not only for the bathing offer, but also for the cultural artistic heritage and, so as we believe that the port of Nice, easy approachable from all the Italy North, will be another valid alternative to the port of Genoa, for the Italian travellers whom they will want to reach the Sardinia".
In occasion of the today's encounter Zanelli Bono it has announced that this year the company attends an increase of the presences on own ships: "the trend of question 2016 for the routes from served we - it has specified - is in increase regarding the year precedence. The Sardinia, in particular, is between the demanded goals more from the Italian market" and - it has added - also the Corsica gives positive signs.
The encounter today has had also the scope to introduce renewed Mega Andrea, after months of transformations, restyling, technological innovations and important transformations with work executed from the society Jobson Italy near the Navalmare Yard of La Spezia, while the Vianadecon Greek of architect Antonios Kioukas has planned and realized all the internal furnishings. The ship has made its debut 24th March on the draft Livorno-Gulf Oranges, but Mega Andrea is destined to touch many ports and to serve almost all lines of the company being placed side by side the other units of the fleet.
In its 171 meters of length, 28 practicable meters of width and six bridges, Mega Andrea can receive 2,000 passengers and 550 cars and reaches a cruise speed of 21 knots.
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