New GRIMALDI Group PCTC Named Grande Halifax

During a short ceremony held January 10 at the Chinese shipyards of Jinling in Nanjing (China), the Pure Car & Truck Carrier Grande Halifax was delivered to the Grimaldi Group. It is the last of a series of three sister units, ordered by the Neapolitan group to the Jinling shipyards.

The Grande Halifax has a length of 199,90 meters, a width of 32,26 meters, a gross tonnage of 63.000 and a cruising speed of 19 knots. Italian-flagged, the vessel can carry 6.700 CEU (Car Equivalent Units) or alternatively 4.000 linear meters of rolling freight and 2.500 CEU. The Grande Halifax is equipped with four hoistable decks which make her an extremely flexible vessel, able to transport any type of rolling cargo (cars, vans, trucks, tractors, buses, excavators, etc.) up to 5.2 meters high.

In addition, for the access of freight into the vessel, the Grande Halifax has a side ramp and a quarter stern ramp, the latter allowing the loading of freight with a weight up to 150 tons. The configuration of the various decks and the system for the internal ramps reduce to the minimum the risk of damage during the loading / unloading operations.

The Grande Halifax will be deployed on the Mediterranean-North America weekly service operated by the Group, joining her sister vessels Grande Baltimora and Grande New York., and should be seen in Halifax in the Coming weeks.

Cruise Halifax on an ACL Con-ro.

A new cargo-passenger service between Europe and North America is available with the five new ACL vessels  G4 vessels. The five newly-built vessels operating on this Line are the Atlantic Sail, Atlantic Sea, Atlantic Sky,  Atlantic Star and Atlantic Sun. Each Capable of carrying 12 passengers, Facilities on each vessel include a gym, TV, movies (DVD), laundry, books, karaoke machine, and PlayStation. There is also a sauna on each vessel but not a swimming pool.

Bookings are now open for departures from  from beginning of March to end of December 2018 via The Cruise People

There will be three fare codes for booking this service: CU1, CU2, CUR
CU1: departures from Hamburg/Antwerp/Liverpool to Halifax and return
Outside Cabins: €750 per passenger, double occupancy, €1.050,00 single occupancy
Owners Cabin: €1,300 per passenger, double occupancy, €1.800,00 single occupancy

CU2: departures from Hamburg/Antwerp/Liverpool to New York and Baltimore only and return
Outside Cabins: €980 per passenger, double occupancy, €1.300 single occupancy
Owners Cabin: €1,500 per passenger, double occupancy, €2,100 single occupancy
CUR: round voyages, Hamburg/Hamburg, Antwerp/Antwerp, Liverpool/Liverpool only

Outside Cabins: €2,100 per passenger, double occupancy, €2,450 single occupancy
Owners Cabin: €3,100 per passenger, double occupancy, €3,800 single occupancy