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Tarros has upgraded the Great Pendulum Service
Introduced fifth portacontainer and included touched to the portuguese port of Leixoes
June 14, 2018
The company spezzina Tarros has upgraded own marine service of line Great Pendulum Service (GPS), than from 2009 it directly connects some of the more important you carry of the Mediterranean oriental with the more western part of the Mediterranean area via the Italian ports of La Spezia, Salerno and Genoa. In its new configuration the service is based on departures weeklies magazine of five portacontainer, rather than four as previously, that they have of the nominal medium capacity of 1.650 teu, equivalents to about 1.100 teu of the weight of 14 tons everyone.
Moreover in the new spin of the GPS service they are included touched to Leixoes, port in the important industrial zone of northern Portugal, placing side by side it to the port of Setubal, in the area of Lisbon.
In the part oriental of the spin, with departures from Genoa, La Spezia and Salerno, they are scaled the Greek port of the Pireo, the Turkish ports of Istanbul, Gebze and Mersin, the Syrian port of Lattakia, Beirut in Lebanese and at last the port Egyptian of Alexandria from which the ships re-enter then to Salerno, La Spezia and Genoa. From the Italian ports the ships leave again for the western field heading directly at Casablanca in Morocco, then for the new port of call of Leixoes and at last for Setubal in Portugal before to finish re-entering to Genoa, La Spezia, Salerno in order to resume the cycle oriental. In some ports of call the container is reshipped towards other ports not connected directly: so by Istanbul various resorts of the Black Sea are served while to La Spezia, in the Terminal of the Gulf (operated directly from the Tarros group), the cargo can be reshipped towards Libya, Algeria, Tunisia and Malta.
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