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QUARTERLY PUBLICATION OF THE GRIMALDI GROUP APRILr / JUNE 2008 imaldi GNEWS 42 Green Revolution Tariffa Regime Poste Italiane Libero: SpA Tariffa - Spedizione Abbonamento in Postale - 70% - DCB Napoli Xxxxxxxxxxx Contents 3 Ships Deliver knock out blow 4 Cruise Roma spells huge CO2 savings 5 The Cruise Roma deployed on service 6 Brazil to Angola every 10 days Ships Deliver Knock-out Blow US to West Africa improvements ontinuous investment in new, through the deployment of new genera- 7 Grande Angola launched technologically advanced tion Ro/Ro vessels on the route linking South America Line in ships is proving to be the best Salerno (Italy) and Valencia (Spain). This Bremerhaven Call C possible way towards a cleaner and less has been compared to similar improve- 8 Grimaldi is ‘Best of the polluted planet. A study developed by ments achieved by the road modality. Best’ for General Motors Grimaldi has in fact shown that new Ro/ Results are really tough for those who Irish operation gets GM Award Ro hull design together with increased maintain that trucks pollute less than 9 Grimaldi and ACL win cargo capacity and engine technol- ships. This proved to be untrue both Lloyd’s Loading List Awards The Group in Gothenburg ogy has allowed maritime transport in overall values and when it comes to and Barcelona to knock out the road transport when calculate the actual emission of CO2 for 10 News it comes to environmental impact. This a single trailer over a given number of demonstrates how vicious is the ongo- km. Evidence is given for trucks trav- 11 Agent List & Schedules ing attack to maritime transport from the eling from Southern Italy to Southern lobbies of other modalities: shipping is Spain (see graph in this page). r imaldi and remains the most environmentally A trailer shipped by sea using a ship GNE WS friendly modality per unit of cargo/km built in 1980 like the Ro/Ro vessel transported. Malta Express, able to carry up to 80 Direttore Responsabile Grimaldi has developed a case study equivalent trailers, had CO2 emissions Editor Saverio Barbati of the improvements achieved over the of 2,443 kg per equivalent trailer, this Progetto grafico last 30 years in terms of CO2 emissions was already much less than a trailer Graphic design Marco Di Lorenzo Pubblicazione trimestrale Quarterly publication Reg. Trib. Napoli n. 5150 del 26/9/2000 Stampa / Print: ROSSI srl - Nola (Napoli) GRIMALDI GROUP The profile of the next generation Via Marchese Campodisola, 13 “Grimaldi Ro/Ro 2010” currently under construction GNE WS80133 NAPOLI (Italy) Grimaldi News can be seen on line on www.grimaldi.napoli.it ENVIRONM E NT Ships Deliver Knock-out Blow Over the last 30 years CO2 emissions per trailer shipped by sea have gone down by more than 65%. Between Salerno and Valencia ships emit one third of CO2 compared to trucks Salerno-Valencia route: Co2 emissions trend comparison transported by road that in 1980, with between trucks and Grimaldi Ro/Ro vessels the Euro 0 engines, had CO2 emissions 3,000 Euro 0 Truck (1980) of 2,704 kg of CO2 per trailer. The environmental advantage has 2,500 Ro/Ro Malta grown continuously over the years as Expr. (1980) equivalent trailers: 80 Euro 4 Truck (2007) 2,000 new, larger ships have been deployed R/oRo Alyona (1981) with a state-of-the-art shape of the hull equivalent trailers: 175 1,500 Ro/Ro Eurocargo Napoli and technologically advanced engines. Ro/Ro Carmania E. (1986) transformed with additional equivalent trailers: 191 car decks (2007) It is interesting to note that once the new equivalent trailers: 171 1,000 Ro/Ro Eurocargo Napoli (1995) Grimaldi Ro/Ro class of vessel is intro- Co2 Kg. per trailer transported equivalent trailers: 145 duced in 2010 on the Salerno/Valencia Grimaldi Ro/Ro (2010) 500 equivalent trailers: 296 route, each ship will be able to load on- board 296 trailers having a CO2 emis- 0 1980 1990 2000 2007 2010 years sion level of 752 kg per trailer compared to the 2,003 kg CO2 emission per trailer the Group has in fact completed invest- to as social responsibility while back- achieved by the Euro 4 and Euro 5 en- ments worth about 2 billion euros to ing the European policy of cutting CO2 gines mounted in trucks. build modern Ro/Ro ships whilst the emissions substantially. Grimaldi can Once again figures show the reality of ongoing investment up to 2011 totals proudly claim that, thanks to these large things and the willingness of the Grimal- more than 2.5 billion euros for 32 ad- investments, it is substantially outper- di Group to invest in order to safeguard ditional new, environmentally friendly forming EU’s CO2 reduction target set the environment. Over the last 10 years, ships. This is what we, at Grimaldi, refer at 20% by 2020. GNE WS 3 ENVIRONM E NT NE W TONNAG E Cruise Roma spells huge CO2 savings eployment of the revolutionary of bunker fuel and a total emission DCruise Ferry ‘Cruise Roma’ on of 276 tonnes of CO2. Transporting the service between Civitavecchia the same quantity of trailers and pas- and Rome in late March of this year sengers, using trucks and planes represents a gigantic step forward would require a total emission of 458 in environmental terms. The dimen- tonnes of CO2; 281 tonnes of CO2 for sions and transport capacity of the the trucks and 177 tonnes of CO2 for ship translate to a huge reduction the airplanes (according to the Air - up to about 40% - of CO2 emissions France CO2 calculator). when compared to the level of emis- The difference is evident: by having The Cruise Roma sion via road transportation and via invested 150 billion euros to build the airplane of a comparable quantity of Cruise Roma, the Grimaldi Group is cargo and passengers. bringing to the community a saving n 14 April, two weeks after having In a single one/way voyage, the of about 183 tonnes of CO2 per each deployed on service been deployed on her regular shuttle Cruise Roma is capable of trans- single voyage and therefore on ev- Oservice between Civitavecchia and porting 187 trailers and 215 cars ery single day of the year. This effect Barcelona, the Cruise Roma, the newest, larg- (making a total of 214 equivalent is set to double later this year when est and most technologically advanced Cruise trailers) and 2,140 passengers with the sistership Cruise Barcelona joins Ferry in the whole of the Mediterranean was a total consumption of 88.4 tonnes the Cruise Roma on the same route. officially inaugurated during a three-day cer- emony encompassing a round trip on the route CO2 EMISSION: she serves. On Monday, April 14, an event to comparison between the m/v Cruise Roma present the ship to authorities and clients was and alternative road/air transport held onboard while the vessel was moored in Route analysed: Civitavecchia / Barcelona Km via road 1,275 Civitavecchia. A similar event was held on April Km via sea / air 823 15 in Barcelona. Diesel CO2 emission factor 3.13 kg CO2 x kg fuel Hosted on board by the Group co-managing di- Bunker ISO 380 CO2 emission factor 3.12 kg CO2 x kg fuel rector Emanuele Grimaldi were, amongst others, Cruise Roma Prof. Alessandro Bianchi, at that time Italy’s Min- Transport Capacity 214 trailers equivalent 2,140 passengers ister of Transport, Mr Fabio Ciani, president of Equivalent CO2 emission per trailer 1,290 kg CO2 the Civitavecchia Port Authority, Mr Gianni Mo- Total CO2 Emission 275,808 kg CO2 scherini, Mayor of Civitavecchia, Mr Giuseppe Trucks (Euro 4 engine) Bono, ceo of Fincantieri that built the ship and Units 214 CO2 Emission per unit 1,315 kg CO2 Mr Ugo Salerno, ceo of Rina (the Italian Ship- Total CO2 emission (trucks) 281,346 kg CO2 ping Register) who delivered to Mr Grimaldi Airplane the Green Star Design Certificate for the Cruise CO2 emission 100.6 g CO2 / pax-km* Roma. The Green Star notation certifies that the Passengers 2,140 ship has been designed and built in accordance Total CO2 emissions (airplane) 177,180 kg CO2 to the most strict environmentally friendly regu- *source: Air France CO2 Calculator CO2 Comparison lations to the point that she has the ‘clean air’ and Cruise Roma 275,808 kg CO2 ‘clean sea’ notations too. “The Cruise Roma is the Trucks + Airplane 458,526 kg CO2 largest cruise ferry ever to have been designed SHIP ADVANTAGE 182,718 kg CO2 and built with such strict environmental regula- 4 GNE WS The Cruise Roma deployed on service A cruise including events in Civitavecchia and Barcelona marked the deployment on line of the largest Cruise Ferry in the Med tions” underlined Mr Salerno. ing operating costs by switching from the In Barcelona, guests included Mr Jordi congested overland roads onto the sea. At Valls, President of the Barcelona Port Au- the same time, the whole community is ben- thority, Mr Pasquale Terracciano, Italian efiting from our investments as the possibil- Ambassador in Spain, various local institu- ity to transport up to 2,300 passengers, 215 tions, Grimaldi’s main customers as well cars and 180 trailers will produce a substan- as representatives of the Spanish press. tial cut in CO2 emissions when compared In his speech, Mr Bianchi, Italy’s Minister to the emissions necessary to transport the of Transport paid tribute to Grimaldi’s same number of cars, trailers and people effort to promote and develop Europe’s by road and airplane”.

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