GRIMALDI Ferries stellt neue Fahrpläne und Konzepte für 2008 vor

The Grimaldi Group (Naples), founded in 1945, is today a specialist in the roll on/roll off method of shipment and currently owns one of the largest fleets of ro/ro multipurpose and car carrier vessels in the world.
After developing in the 1960’s its maritime services within the Mediterranean, the Group expanded into other areas of the world and further developed the ro/ro concept with increasingly sophisticated and flexible ro/ro multipurpose vessels.
The Grimaldi Group, with a fleet of about 55 owned and chartered vessels, offers today regular liner services covering North Europe, the Mediterranean, West/Central Africa and South America for the transport of cars, vans, trucks and other commercial vehicles, all types of containers, general cargo (paper, forestry products, etc.), project cargo.
Every year, the Group carriers through its various services about 1 million vehicles produced by the biggest car manufacturers in the world, its main customers.
With the aim of becoming a Multimodal Transport Operator and follow the “door-to-door” transport concept, the Grimaldi Group has been recently investing in shore infrastructure such as port terminals, car/container storing areas and pre-delivery centres (PDI) and has set up, with strategic partners, trucking companies for the transport of vehicles.
Today, the Group runs a network of integrated logistics services in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and Ireland while projects are underway to expand this network in other North European and the Mediterranean countries.
In order to maintain the highest standards of its large international clientele and conscious of the fact that the maritime transport is the most environmentally friendly mode of transport, the Group started in recent years an ambitious programme to strengthen its fleet by ordering 30 technologically advanced ro/ro multipurpose vessels.
Since 1998, six of these vessels were delivered while the remaining are due to be deployed on the various services of the Group between 2000 and 2003.
The Grimaldi Group (Naples) includes the following companies: Atlantica S.p.A. di Navigazione, Grimaldi Compagnia di Navigazione S.p.A., Industria Armamento Meridionale S.p.A., Atlantic Container Line.
Moreover, the Grimaldi Group has recently set up the new maltese company Malta Motorways of the Sea Ltd in order to strengthen the already consolidated Grimaldi global network.