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In the 2017 traffic goods transported from the ships of the Honored group Shipping it has marked an increase of +9%
In 2018 percentage on the Sicily and a general development of all the markets is attended an ulterior increase to double figure
January 10, 2018
Honored Shipping, the group that work marine services for passengers and goods mainly with the marks Moby, Tirrenia and Toremar, has announced that in the 2017 traffic of the goods enlivened from the ships of own fleet engaged on the routes with the Sardinia and the Sicily it has recorded an sensitive increment.
In particular, the traffic of the goods enlivened from the services with the Sicily of the Tirrenia company has marked a +30%, rise - it has explained the group - which had essentially to the boom of the traffic of semitowings (+38%) and to the explosion of the Genoa-Livorno-Catania-Malta line inaugurated in November 2016 and turned out particularly appreciated from the conveyors. The total increment of the traffic has been about half million linear meters.
Honored Shipping it has specified that, in spite of a scene very more trained from the competitive point of view, also the services with the Sardinia have increased the traffic volumes goods thanks to a general increment of the home market, with an increase of +4% are regarding the guided one that for that concerns the semitowings.
Altogether the traffic goods of the group, considering all the served lines (Sardinia, Sicily, Corsica, Elba, Malta and Tremiti), have had an increase of +9%.
"I am convinced - Alessandro Onorato has commented, vice-president of Moby and managing director to the commercial one of Honored Shipping - than this trend will continue also in 2018, in the course of which we attend an ulterior increase in double figure percentage on the Sicily and a general development of all the markets. By virtue of this forecast we have intention, as announced last month, to introduce new ships".
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