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Opened in 2004, the station is the northwestern terminus of the Palermo Passante railway, and forms part of the Palermo Metro. The station is managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI). Train services are operated by Trenitalia. Both companies are subsidiaries of Ferrovie dello Stato (FS), Italy's state-owned rail company.
Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) is an Italian shipping company, based in Genoa, that operates ferries between mainland Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, France, Spain, Albania, Morocco and Tunisia. It was established by Aldo Grimaldi in 1992.
The first section of the Palermo "metropolitana" was opened in 1990, a month before the beginning of Italia 90, the football World Cup. The line had only six stations: Palermo Centrale, Vespri, Palermo Notarbartolo, Federico, Fiera and Giachery. The line used the tracks of the old Palermo – Trapani railway, running across the city until ...
Grandi Navi Veloci (2021-) Port of registry ... Naples-Palermo (2021 onwards) Builder: NKK, Japan: ... Ferry Strip-Down, first broadcast on BBC Two on Sunday 29 July ...
MS GNV Aries was built as MS Norsea for North Sea Ferries as part of their response to the need for larger vessels in the mid to late 1980s. The 1974 ships MV Norland and MV Norstar were proving to be very popular, and were running at capacity. Therefore, North Sea Ferries designed their "3rd Generation" overnight ferry.
It is also the terminal of Palermo-Catania [4] and Palermo-Agrigento [5] lines. As transport the Centrale is an important hub of regional services for Sicily, also served by the citizen subway which links it to the Airport of Punta Raisi. For long-distance transport it is the terminus of InterCity trains to Naples, Rome, Milan and still 1970s ...
[1] [2] The 29-kilometre-long (18 mi) line is one of the new high-speed lines being built to strengthen rail transport system in Italy and in particular freight and passenger transport in Campania. The line is part of Corridor 1 of the European Union's Trans-European high-speed rail network, which connects Berlin and Palermo.
From 2018 to 2020, the ship operated on the Naples–Palermo route for Grandi Navi Veloci. Since 3 September 2020, the vessel is chartered by the Italian Ministry of the Interior to be used as a quarantine ship in the landings emergency in Sicily. [4] GNV Blu operates on the Bari–Durrës route.