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Grimaldi Group

#26 container line by published capacity

Headquarters: Naples
Founded: 1947
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Piergiuliano Chesi · CC BY 3.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

Published by the industry · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30

Container capacity

77,276 TEU

Published capacity · Alphaliner Top 100 (via Wikipedia) · as of 2026-04-30

Gross tonnage on record

54,310

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

This company reports 50 ships while this registry holds individual records for 1. That gap is coverage, not a contradiction: open reference data documents a minority of the world fleet ship by ship. The list below is what can be named and verified.

In brief

What Grimaldi Group is

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The Grimaldi Group is a private shipping company owned by the Grimaldi family (Emanuele Grimaldi) and based in Naples, Italy. Grimaldi operates a large fleet of ro-ro, ro-ro/multipurpose, con-ro multipurpose, PCTC (Pure Car and Truck Carrier), ro-pax and cruise ferries vessels.

Quoted from Grimaldi Group on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: Italy
Headquarters: Naples
Formed in: Naples
Founded: 1947
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 40.8358, 14.2486

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 18.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 2008
Newest vessel on record: 2008
Largest vessel by tonnage: 54,310
Average tonnage: 54,310
Market share: 0.2%
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Grimaldi Group. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Ferry1

By flag state

Italy1

By shipbuilder

Fincantieri1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record

1 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Cruise Barcelona	9351488	Ferry	Italy	2008	54,310	—	224.0 m	Fincantieri

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Grimaldi Group compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Grimaldi Group is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

Italy is the country of registration for 40 commercial operators in this directory, among which Grimaldi Group ranks 20th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 256 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Italy.

Founded in 1947, Grimaldi Group is 79 years old. This directory holds 76 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.