the Grimaldi group inserts the port of Taranto in own net of Freeways of the Sea



Today the company of navigation Grimaldi Lines of the partenopeo shipowning group Grimaldi has activated a new connection ro-ro between the port of Taranto, the Sicily, the Latium and the Liguria. The new Freeway of the Sea constitutes an extension of the current marine service for the transport of rotabili operated, on a weekly basis, from the Neapolitan group between the ports of Genoa, Civitavecchia and Catania, mainly classified to the heavy means transport (included average cooled), beyond to other goods rotabile that travel between the Sicily and the Centro Italia North.

The ship employed in the service is l'Eurocargo Livorno, that it can transport 4,000 linear meters of rotabile cargo. Al apulian port will be guaranteed two ports of call weeklies magazine. Every monday the ship will scale Taranto in arrival from Catania, while every Wednesday will scale Taranto in opposite direction with destination Catania, Civitavecchia and Genoa.

"Today - it has emphasized Guido Grimaldi, corporate short sea shipping commercial director of the Grimaldi group - the port of Taranto enters for the first time in the net of Freeways of the Sea of the Grimaldi group, which is the first operator to offer a connection directed from the Apulia to the Liguria and the Latium, passing for Sicily. Taranto - it has explained - is chosen for the commercial role strategic that it plays in the traffics in cabotage, affording to satisfy the demands for the industrial compages of the zone. I wish to thank the extraordinary commissioner Sergio Prete and the commander of the Harbour office, Claudio Durante, in order to have received and favorite our presence and all the local operators for the profuse engagement to the success of this initiative".

From part its extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Taranto, Sergio Prete, has thanked the Grimaldi group "for the inclusion of the ionic port of call in capillary and the important net of the Freeways of the Sea of which the same one he is leader. I thank, also - it has added - the involved local operators in the operation and confide that such new traffics will contribute to an ulterior diversification and development of the activities of the port of Taranto. The shipowner - he has concluded Priest - will find to Taranto a harbour coesa and engaged community, with the support of the national, regional and local institutions, to acquire and to legitimize a central role in communitarian and Mediterranean within".