Type of cruise ship
Pride of Bilbao Moby Orli ), an archetypical cruiseferry. Built for Rederi AB Slite for the Baltic cruise market and operated until 2010 by P&O Ferries between Portsmouth in the UK and Bilbao in the Basque Country , Spain. She was sold by Irish Continental Group at the end of her charter to P&O Ferries in 2010 and the operated for St. Peter Line among Stockholm , Tallinn , Helsinki and Saint Petersburg , before being moved to Italy.A cruiseferry is a ship that combines the features of a cruise ship and a Ro-Pax ferry . Many passengers travel with the ships for the cruise experience, staying only a few hours at the destination port or not leaving the ship at all, while others use the ships as means of transportation.
Cruiseferry traffic is mainly concentrated in the seas of Northern Europe , especially the Baltic Sea and the North Sea . However, similar ships traffic across the English Channel as well as the Irish Sea , Mediterranean and even on the North Atlantic . Cruiseferries also operate from India , China and Australia .
Baltic Sea cruiseferries
Main article: Baltic Sea cruiseferries
In the northern Baltic Sea, two major rival companies, Viking Line and Silja Line , have for decades competed on the routes between Turku and Helsinki in Finland and Sweden 's capital Stockholm . Since the 1990s Tallink has also risen as a major company in the area, culminating with acquisition of Silja Line in 2006.
List of largest cruiseferries of their time
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The term "cruiseferry" did not come into use until the 1980s, although it has been retroactively applied to earlier ferries that have large cabin capabilities and public spaces in addition to their car- and passenger-carrying capacity.
Year
Name
Tonnage
Company
Traffic area
Flag
Notes
1956
MV Akdeniz 8,809 GRT
Turkish Maritime Lines
Mediterranean Sea Turkey Built 1955
1975
MS Belorussiya 16,331 GRT
Black Sea Shipping Company Black Sea Soviet Union Alongside five identical sisters built 1975–76
1976
MS Napoléon [fr ]20,079 GRT
SNCM Mediterranean France Sent to Comarit in 2002.
1977
GTS Finnjet 24,605 GRT
Enso-Gutzeit (Finnlines traffic)Baltic Sea Finland Gas turbine -powered. Also fastest and longest
1981
MS Finlandia 25,905 GRT
Effoa (Silja Line traffic)Baltic Sea Finland Alongside identical sister MS Silvia Regina
1982
MS Scandinavia 26,747 GT
Scandinavian World Cruises [da ],DFDS Seaways New York —Bahamas Copenhagen —Oslo Denmark
1985
MS Svea 33,829 GT
Johnson Line (Silja Line traffic)Baltic Sea Sweden
1985
MS Mariella 37,799 GT
SF Line (Viking Line traffic)Baltic Sea Finland
1989
MS Athena 40,012 GT
Rederi AB Slite (Viking Line traffic)Baltic Sea
Sweden
1989
MS Cinderella 46,398 GT
SF Line (Viking Line traffic)Baltic Sea
Finland
1990
MS Silja Serenade 58,376 GT
Silja Line Baltic Sea
Finland
1991
MS Silja Symphony 58,377 GT
Silja Line Baltic Sea
Sweden
1993
MS Silja Europa 59,914 GT
Tallink Baltic Sea
Estonia Ordered by Rederi AB Slite for Viking Line traffic
2001
MS Pride of Rotterdam 59,925 GT
P&O Ferries North Sea
Netherlands
2001
MS Pride of Hull 59,925 GT
P&O Ferries North Sea
Netherlands
2004
MS Color Fantasy 75,027 GT
Color Line Kattegat , Skagerrak Norway
2007
MS Color Magic 75,100 GT
Color Line Kattegat, Skagerrak
Norway
May be specified in gross tonnage (GT) or gross register tons (GRT).
List of cruiseferry operators
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Åland
Australia
Canada
Croatia
Denmark
Estonia
Faroe Islands
Finland
France
Greece
Hong Kong
Ireland
Italy
Mexico
Norway
Poland
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
Japan
Gallery
Pont-Aven
M/S Silja Europa , the largest cruiseferry in the world 1993–2001.
M/S Cinderella departing Helsinki .
M/S Mega Regina at Ile Rousse
M/S Color Fantasy , the largest cruiseferry in the world 2004–2007.
MS Cruise Roma Civitavecchia , Italy.
M/S Danielle Casanova in Bastia , Corsica , France.
M/S Pride of Rotterdam
MS Galaxy in Helsinki West Harbour.
MS Scandinavia in Gdańsk , Poland .
M/S Pearl of Scandinavia in Oslo , Norway
MV Cap Finistère of Brittany Ferries sailing from Portsmouth International Port , UK for Bilbao , Spain .
See also
References
Ngui, Yantoultra (2022). "How a Billionaire's Cruise Empire Imploded in Hong Kong" . Bloomberg.com . Retrieved 2 November 2024 – via EBSCOhost .
"Travelscene boosts options in Cruiseferry programme" . Travel Trade Gazette UK & Ireland . No. 2534. 2002. p. 63. Retrieved 2 November 2024 – via EBSCOhost .
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UK P&O Ferries
Pont-Aven, Brittany Ferries' flagship.
M/S Silja Europa, the largest cruiseferry in the world 1993–2001.
M/S Cinderella departing Helsinki.
M/S Mega Regina at Ile Rousse
M/S Color Fantasy, the largest cruiseferry in the world 2004–2007.
MS Cruise Roma in Civitavecchia, Italy.
M/S Danielle Casanova in Bastia, Corsica, France.
M/S Pride of Rotterdam
MS Galaxy in Helsinki West Harbour.
MS Scandinavia in Gdańsk, Poland.
M/S Pearl of Scandinavia in Oslo, Norway
MV Cap Finistère of Brittany Ferries sailing from Portsmouth International Port, UK for Bilbao, Spain.
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