Grimaldi Group
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| Genre | Shipping |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1947[1] |
| Founder | Guido, Luigi, Mario, Aldo and Ugo Grimaldi |
| Headquarters | Naples, Italy |
Key people |
Gianluca Grimaldi Emanuele Grimaldi Diego Pacela[2] |
| Services |
Shipping Terminals Logistics |
| Subsidiaries |
Finnlines Minoan Lines ACL Grimaldi Lines Grimaldi Suardiaz Lines |
| Website | www.grimaldi.napoli.it |
The Grimaldi Group is a private shipping company owned by Guido Grimaldi and based in Naples, Italy. Grimaldi operates a large fleet of ro-ro vessels.
Shipping
The Grimaldi Group is a conglomerate of companies linked to the logistics business with a main-focus on shipping. The main brands of the company are:[3]
- Grimaldi Lines - cargo and ferry company
- Atlantic Container Line - container-based cargo services in the North Atlantic
- Minoan Lines - a ferry company sailing between Italy and Greece and within Greece
- Finnlines - a ferry company operating in the Baltic Sea
- Malta Motorways of the Sea - a ferry company operating in the Mediterranean between Italy, Spain, Tunisia, Libya and Malta
Grimaldi Lines
This is the main shipping company within the group. The Grimaldi family has had links to shipping for many generations. According to their own records, the oldest written records linking the Grimaldi family to shipping dates back to 1348, when three Grimaldi brothers received a precious relic as a guarantee for the chartering of three ships[4]
The current Grimaldi companies can be traced back to the middle of the 19th century, when Italian shipowner Gioacchino Lauro started a steamboat company. His son Achille expanded that shipping company and, in the middle of the 20th century, it became one of the largest shipping companies in the world. At that time, Giovanni Grimaldi was a lawyer who was married to the sister of above Achille Lauro. Amelia Grimaldi-Lauro asked her brother Achillo to take her son Guido under his wings, and this brought the Grimaldi family back into the shipping business. It was this son, Guido, who founded the group in 1947 with his brothers Luigi, Mario, Aldo and Ugo by buying a Liberty ship.
Ferry operations
Grimaldi Lines operate ferry-lines with routes in the Mediterranean. They have routes to Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Malta and Italy. Under the Grimaldi Lines brand they operate six ro-ro ferries. The ships in the Grimaldi Lines fleet vary in size and design, with the larger ferries being able to carry up to 2200 passengers and a cruise-speed of 22.5 knots
Cargo
For cargo the company uses their passenger cruise ferry class ships, dedicated truck ferries and also container/ro-ro ships. Grimaldi has a fleet of special car carriers. Grimaldi has 32 dedicated car + container ships and another 5 Atlantic class ships.[5]
One of these car-carriers, the Republica de Argentina ran aground in the Western Scheldt between the North Sea and the port of Antwerp on 7 October 2011 but was pulled back afloat at the next high tide[6]
See also
References
- ↑ Shipping Logistics Career at Grimaldi
- ↑ http://www.grimaldi.napoli.it/en/about_us.html
- ↑ Grimaldi group website, visited 8 October 2011
- ↑ Grimaldi Lines website: Our history, visited 8 October 2011
- ↑ Grimaldi Group website: Fleet overview, visited 8 October 2011
- ↑ NU.NL newssite: Cargo vessel Wester Scheld refloated, 8 October 2011
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