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Attica disembarks in Africa activating a service Morocco-Spain ferry
the Tanger Med line - Algeciras will be placed side by side by other routes between the nation African and Europe
June 17, 2016
The shipowning society Greek Attica (group Marfin Investment), than work services ferry between Greece and Italy and on the Greek national routes through own marks Superstar Ferries and Blue Ferries Star, has increased own range to the Africa North having activated a new service ferry between Morocco and Europe.
Attica in fact has constituted joint venture Africa Morocco Links (AML) with the Moroccan bank group and pan-African BMCE Bank of Africa that today inaugurates the new marine connection between the Moroccan port of Tanger Med and the Spanish port of Algeciras with the employment of the Diagoras ship, than in the next few days will be placed side by side by according to ferry. The Diagoras, previously employed from Blue the Ferries Star, is long 141,5 meters, wide 23,0 meters, can transport 1,465 passengers and has a garage of the ability to 634 linear meters.
The line is activated on initiative of the BMCE Bank of Africa with the support of the Moroccan government who has selected the Greek society as social and operating partner. Joint venture, that it is participated to 49% from Attica and 51% from a consortium of shareholders capeggiati from the BMCE Bank of Africa, has in program the start of other marine services between Morocco and Europe.
Manifesting satisfaction for the collaboration activated with the BMCE Bank of Africa, the managing director of the Attica, Spiros Paschalis, one has been said convinced that the AML "will very soon become an operator of ferries leader in the connections between Morocco, Africa and Europe". "For our part - it has specified - we do not have doubts that our immense experience in the field of the ferries, with the excellence service that we offer to our customers, will determine an increase of the quality of the current services of the market and to the development of the Moroccan marine staff towards the most elevated possible standards, obtaining the operating excellence that BMCE Bank of Africa and the Attica group intend to offer".
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The shipowning society Greek Attica (group Marfin Investment), than work services ferry between Greece and Italy and on the Greek national routes through own marks Superstar Ferries and Blue Ferries Star, has increased own range to the Africa North having activated a new service ferry between Morocco and Europe.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
