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June 20, 2011
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- The Italian shipping group Messina boosts bid for Turkey, India, Spain and France
- Additional points will be included in the services and ships. The line is still suspended for Libya
 The Italian shipping company Ignazio Messina & C. Spa has announced a new line to Turkey, the expansion of ports in India and the upgrading of its services to France and Spain with the entry into service of new ships and the positive market response.
- On its own line Mediterranean - Red Sea - Arabian Gulf - India group Messina insert two ships full container of 2,470 TEUs hired that will be integrated with the ro-owned and flying the Italian flag and Jolly Jolly Black Orange used on the route. In addition to a substantial increase in the hold, the reorganization will provide a departure from Genoa every 12 days with 2,500 meters of space stock every 24 days. In addition, the service will be extended to Spain with direct calls in Castellon, and reinforced in India with the addition of two new ports: Cochin on the west coast and Tuticorin on the east.
- Messina also reinforce the line Mediterranean - Red Sea - East Africa - South Africa with the use of two ro-ro ships with greater capacity to hold, and Jolly Jolly Coral Sapphire, who will support the ro-ro and Jolly Jolly Green White . With four units, all owned and the Italian flag, the supply of cargo will increase considerably. In addition, the service will be extended to Spain with direct landing in Barcelona maintaining fortnightly frequency.
- The Messina Group will continue to operate the line Mediterranean - West Africa with three ships of the Italian flag, and property, the ro-ro and Jolly Jolly Red and Brown with Silver-ro Jolly buses leave every 14 days from Naples, Genoa, Marseille , Barcelona, ​​Castellon and made fast on the main ports of the (Dakar, Abidjan, Lagos and Tema).
- In line for the Eastern Mediterranean, in addition to historical ports of Alexandria and Beirut, the airport will be included in Mersin (Turkey) and, in addition to Genoa and Naples, the service will also reach Marseille. With a with-ro, the Jolly Gold property and the Italian flag, and the ro-ro hire Thebeland, bigger and faster drives previously used, the frequency of departures will be every nine days.
- Unchanged the other services of the infra-Mediterranean group with regular calls and leased lines to the ports of Tunis, Malta and Algiers.
- Messina has confirmed that the service is currently suspended for the owner's Libya, where the company operates since the year of its founding in 1921. The evolution of socio-political situation of the North African country - said the company - is monitored daily with the precise intention of returning to regularly climb the ports of Tripoli, Khoms, Misurata and Benghazi as soon as possible.
- The Italian group has stressed that, pending the imminent delivery scheduled for the month of September of the ro-ro container Jolly Diamond, the first of four new buildings ordered from Korean shipyards Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine Engineering Co. (
 of 16 December 2009), the business plan to strengthen the terminal will have direct positive effects of Genoa and then on the program of the company. 
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