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Feature 2 | PASSENGER AND FREIGHT FERRIES Modal shift drives Grimaldi investment


Te Naples-based Grimaldi Group has maintained a considerable fleet development momentum in recent years, a key element of its strategy having been to act on opportunities presented by Europe’s politically-endorsed Motorways of the Sea concept. By David Tinsley.


road to sea transport now appears to be waning, in the new environment of financial austerity, Grimaldi has already brought key projects to realisation. Te result has been to provide travellers with increased options and service levels in intra-European ferry traffic. Te latest testament to the Italian group’s


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bold approach is encapsulated in the second of two pairs of exceptionally fast, high-grade ro-pax vessels commissioned into Mediterranean duties. Te 54,310gt sisters Cruise Europa and Cruise Olympia, assigned to Grimaldi’s Minoan Lines operation, each combine a high payload with the scope to offer schedules entailing laden speeds of up to 28knots.


Cruise Europa and Cruise Olympia the latast high-speed ro-pax vessels to join Grimaldi Minoan Lines.


TECHNICAL PARTICULARS Cruise Europa


Te hull and technical specification is


Length overall .................................225.00m Length b.p. ......................................202.00m Breadth, moulded ............................30.40m Depth, to upper deck ......................15.95m Depth, to main deck ........................10.00m Draught, maximum ............................7.15m Corresponding dwt ........................8550dwt Draught, design ..................................7.00m Gross tonnage ................................54,310gt Passenger capacity ............................. 3000 Passenger cabins ................................... 413 Freight capacity ......................3000 lane-m Additional cars........................................ 215 Main engines................4 x Wartsila 12V46D Main engine power ................ 4 x 13,860kW Service speed .....................around 25knots Maximum cruising speed...around 28knots Trial speed, design draught @76% MCR...................................... 27knots Generator engines .................... 3 x 2600kW Bow thrusters .............................. 2 x 1850kW


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essentially the same as that of the first two ships, Cruise Roma and Cruise Barcelona, introduced in 2008 by Grimaldi to foster service developments in the western Mediterranean. However, the latest vessels differ in a number of respects, as regards a slightly higher load intake as well as changes in interior design and layout, more attuned to the needs of the Greek market. Although high speed has lately


become anathema in the container trades, signifying a wholesale turnround in philosophy from little more than two years ago, fast transits still have fundamentally important competitive implications for ferry operators, in the context of both passenger traffic and intra-regional exchange of time-sensitive goods and produce. Cruise Europa and Cruise Olympia have effectively heralded a new era in


ro-pax services between Italy and Greece, through a combination of speed, capacity, and productivity brought to bear on a mainstream operation run under the Grimaldi Group’s Minoan Lines banner. While the design type is an exceptionally fast ro-pax vessel in form and function, it is a cruise ferry in concept and standard. Te entire series of four newbuilds was produced at Fincantieri’s Castellammare di Stabia yard in Naples Bay, confirming the group’s capabilities in the design, construction, and project management of outfitting-intensive tonnage. On main dimensions of 225m length


overall and 30.4m breadth, the new generation offers a deadweight of 8550tonnes at maximum 7.15m draught, loading 3060 linear metres of freight vehicles, or about 187 trailers, plus 215 cars. As a result, the first two ships in the four-vessel series, Cruise Roma and Cruise Barcelona, increased ro-ro capacity


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lthough Brussels’ willingness to encourage investments aimed at fostering a modal shiſt from


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