Palermo Euro Terminal s.r.l (P.E.T.) is an excellent partner of Ro-Ro and Car Carrier vessels operating on Italian and European routes and docking on the port of Palermo to load and unload cars, trucks, containers and industrial equipment in general. P.E.T provides a stocking yard to manage and guard the incoming in and outgoing traffic from Sicily, operating in conjunction with the port of Termini Imerese. The P.E.T. is a company stemming from the merging of the Ship-owner Grimaldi s.p.a., leader in European Ro-Ro cars shipping, and its local partner. The company core business is the receiving of cars sent by European manufacturers via the ports of Napoli, Salerno, Civitavecchia, Livorno and Genova and the delivering of vehicles to road transporters.
WHO WE ARE
GRIMALDI
The Grimaldi family’s relationship with the sea date back to 1348, when the de Grimaldis’ brothers were given a precious relic in solid gold by Queen Giovanna I, as a guarantee to charter three of their ships. In 1947 Guido and his brothers Grimaldi set up their own business by purchasing a Liberty vessel, which gave birth to the most important privately owned European fleets. In the following years, as passengers’ demands for comfort and quality increased, the fleet was upgraded to include new, modern liners.
The expansion in the Ro/ro sector in the transport of vehicles came in 1969, when the Group started operating regular liner services linking Italy to United Kingdom and rapidly won the trust of the major vehicle manufacturers, who needed to ship their vehicles between Northern Europe and the Mediterranean.
Over the last forty years the focus on the Ro/ro sector has in fact been the driving factor for growth; it expanded its service terminals to serve trade not only in the Mediterranean and in the Northern Europe trades, but also in Africa, in Southern America and in Northern America.
Today Grimaldi Compagnia di Navigazione SpA has its registered office in Palermo.
There, in addition to the registered office, the Grimaldi’s Group is linked to the Brucato’s Family, an historic port company, by the property of Palermo Euro Terminal srl, its business in the port of Palermo.
BRUCATO
According to documents, the Brucato port company operates into the port of Palermo since 1761 and more recently it also owned a fleet of small vessels in the maritime fields. In the last century it worked for the most representative international shipping owners, including the emerging great Italian public fleet. Brucato family has a long and wide experience in port operations aboard any kind if vessels. Its well-trained personnel are able to perform all requested logistics operations the port of Palermo can enable to fulfil shipping owner needs. Recently it has been authorized to operate also onto the port of Termini Imerese. Today, Brucato family together with the Palermo Euro Terminal specializes in the business of multimodal Ro-Ro vessels and owns the whole requested mechanical equipment including port tractors, forklifts and trolleys, unloading platform for railway cars. Brucato family operates also as a road transporter; its main goal is to provide the whole clients with effective services in the maritime area and railway shipping, cars and containers transportations through the entire Sicilian road network.
OUR SERVICES
- Cars and industrial depot over an area of 15.000 sqm., and possibility to stock in neighbouring areas
- Port firm for ferryboat, Ro-Ro and car carrier ships
- Ced to clients’ database data transmission
- Warehouse for pallet goods
- Door-to-door car and containers transport service
- Company means and equipment: lifts for full containers of 20’ and 40’, forklifts for different goods, vans for staff transfer, port tractors with mafi hook, small trolleys for out of profile goods
Palermo Euro Terminal S.r.l.
Banchina Sammuzzo - 90133 Palermo (PA)
Tel. +39 091 6118031
Fax +39 091 584966