NEWS 62 - Grimaldi Group

Baltic Routes
New services in
Finnlines network
Since March 2013, the Finnish
company Finnlines launched a
new direct service linking Helsinki
(Finland) to Rostock (Germany).
The direct line offers three sailings a
week from Rostock and three from Helsinki,
with a schedule integrated into the
European railway network in combination
with the passenger segment for the
Rostock and Berlin hinterland.
Dedicated to the transport of freight
and passengers, the new service is performed
by the Hansa-class Transeuropa,
which has a gross tonnage of 32,534
tonnes, a length of 180 metres, and accomodates
about 3,200 linear metres of
rolling cargo and about 114 passengers.
Equipped with large 20-m 2 cabins, the
vessel also offers comfortable facilities
to passengers, such as a restaurant, bar,
sauna and pool for a pleasant travel experience.
The Grimaldi-controlled Finnlines enhanced
its network by launching a new
ro/ro weekly service linking Rostock
(Germany) to Zeebrugge (Belgium) and
Bilbao (Spain). This new service aims to
offer a safer, economical and more environmentally
friendly alternative to the
land route connection from Rostock to
Benelux and Northern Spain. Together
with Finnlines’ quality and customer
care this service will have an economical
and ecological impact by providing a
new alternative to logistics and industrial
operators.
Wallhamn the 2 nd largest port in Sweden
Wallhamn AB, the Swedish private port wholly-owned by the
Grimaldi Group, achieved excellent results in 2012: it was
registered as the 11th largest port company in sales out of 53 and,
furthermore, by processing about 160,800 vehicles, the port goes
from being the third largest to be the second largest car port out of
five in Sweden.
The port of Wallhamn is strategically located as it serves both for
imports and exports trades the Western part of Sweden as well as the
South Eastern part of Norway. It operates terminal and stevedoring
activities focused on the handling of rolling units, containers and unitized
general cargo. With a storage area of 500,000 square metres, it
also counts on a PDI workshop and up fitting of commercial vehicles.
The port is called by weekly Grimaldi Lines Euromed Service, linking
Northern Europe to the Mediterranean, and it is connected also
by other operators to the Far East with weekly departures.
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