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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.
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