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the company of Liberty Lines navigation of Trapani has acquired the control of the concittadina Ferries of the Islands
Opera services for the smaller islands of the western Sicily with departures from Trapani and Porto Empedocle
March 21, 2017
Liberty Lines, the company of navigation of Trapani that has a fleet of 31 hydrofoils and is guided by the managing director Ettore Morace, has acquired 50.9% of the share capital of the Ferries of the Islands, society of navigation constituted in 1969 also it with center to Trapani that work services for the smaller islands of the western Sicily (Pantelleria, Linosa and Lampedusa) with departures from Trapani and Porto Empedocle with the ferries Lampedusa, Cossyra and Zeus.
"This acquisition - Morace has explained - re-enters rightfully in business ours mission. From, from when we are operating our objective is the maximum valorization of arcipelaghi Sicilian and the support to their economic increase, tourist and always cultural. For this, we want to carry our experience and our competence inside this prestigious company that represents a patrimony to protect for the history of the marine connections between the Sicily and its net of smaller islands. Our first objectives - it has specified Morace that will cover the charge of president of Ferries of the Islands - will be the maintenance of the occupational levels and the modernization of the services in order to guarantee to the Sicilian smaller islands that necessary impulse to the economic and tourist development".
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