New marine service between Civitavecchia, Olbia and Cagliari of Grimaldi Lines



Next Sunday the company of navigation Grimaldi Lines will inaugurate a new trisettimanale, active line for all the year, between the ports of Civitavecchia, Olbia and Cagliari with departures from the Latium port towards the two Sardinians the monday, the Wednesday and the friday and departures from the port of Olbia towards Cagliari the tuesday, the thursday and the saturday.

Draft - the president of the Authority of Harbour System of the Sea of Sardinia has commented, Massimo Deiana - of "ulterior a good news for the Sardinian harbour system, the demonstration that our ports of call are to the center of the business strategies of the more important Italian shipowning groups". Deiana has evidenced that, moreover, the new service, that it will offer a stable connection between Olbia and Cagliari thanks to which the goods will be able to travel by sea, disincentiverà the displacement of heavy means on the Sardinian roads.

Deiana has emphasized that the new line sets moreover as additional offer on every day the passengers/goods towards Olbia operated from Moby-Tirrenia (to which the seasonal one of Grimaldi joins), to that, daily, on Cagliari (always of the Honored group) and to the every day connection between Civitavecchia-Port Torres and Barcelona with cruise ferry Grimaldi. "It is - it has observed - a confirmation of the vivacity of the marine transport from and for the island, a concrete increment of the traffic volumes that will be able to stimulate new local entrepreneurial initiatives let alone a contribution to a sustainable transport that offers a valid alternative to the internal road traffic".

Commenting recent news on the possible reduction of marine connections with the island, the president of the AdSP has found that "often ago more noise a tree that falls that a forest that grows. I refer to the fact - Deiana has explained - than lascino to too much prevail the controversies on the reorganization of the offer of Tirrenia on the Torres-Genoa Port, forgetting easy that, a month it makes, on the same draft, is inaugurated a new connection. We assist to commercial dynamics that heads to an ability to offer to positive balance. Our engagement - it has concluded - will be to do so as that this season has not rest, continuing in the dialogue with the shipowners that, let us remember it, in this field operate in a logic of I confront competitive".