The new terminal “Muella Costa”, designed by architect Yannic Levêque of IDOM, consists of a total surface area of 63,000 sq m, with a three-level building of 3,750sq m with office facilities, shopping areas, and conference rooms.
Minister of Development Ana Pastor, who was present at the opening ceremony, said "the investment of Grimaldi will bring more wealth, more employment and better infrastructures especially for the citizens. The Ministry is actively working to reduce port charges and so that thanks to Grimaldi the city of Barcelona will be opened to the port and the port to the city."
Grimaldi won a 15-year concession for the terminal, renewable for other 7.5 years. “This investment shows the strategic importance that the port of Barcelona covers in the network of Motorways of the Sea that our Group has been developing in recent years in the Mediterranean” said shipowner Emanuele Grimaldi. “Our willingness is to offer increasingly high standards of service in order to satisfy the needs of our international clientele.”
Barcelona Port Authority president Sixte Chambra commented that the port’s support for Short Sea Shipping as a model of efficient and sustainable transport "allowed Barcelona to become the leading port of short sea shipping in Spain as well as one of the most important ports in southern Europe, with high quality maritime connections as the ones operated by Grimaldi."
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