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Shipping News and information / Informations about ferries

« on: April 15, 2023, 04:15:03 PM »

Hello,

Does someone has informations about the ferries

PERGAMUS / CANADIAN SPIRIT IMO 5003887 after the sale from Italy

IOS EXPRESS IMO 5013923

Thanks!

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Trip reports / Scandinavia Shipspotting Trip June 2020

« on: February 28, 2020, 01:35:33 PM »

Hello all, I

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Shipping News and information / Re: M/V Superfast X

« on: March 12, 2007, 04:33:57 PM »

The Mega Express Three, which is 212 metres, entered Nice in few occasions....anyway do we know where the Jean Nicoli is at the moment?

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Shipping News and information / Re: M/V Superfast X

« on: March 08, 2007, 05:14:22 PM »

I had the chance to test SNCM standards on Pascal Paoli last autumn and I was very well impressed (except for the fact that is unacceptable to make public announcements only in French, apart for the one after departure, also in Corsican speech); it's easy to understand why they've closed the casino, less why they've closed the sauna/jacuzzi. This could have been an interesting service; for the same reason I couldn't understand why CMN cut off the swimming pool from the Girolata; the ferry had a reasonable speed for being useful only on day crossings to Marseille, where it would have been an iteresting service, but even if you don't need it, I can understand to build a ferry without swimming pool, not to remove it from a ferry which has it!

Anyway....no matter! So the Jean Nicoli does not come to Nice?

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Shipping News and information / Re: jean nicoli

« on: March 07, 2007, 12:34:59 AM »

Do you know when the "Jean Nicoli" is expected in Marseille? I've heard that she will be presented in Nice instead of Marseille...

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Shipping News and information / Re: GREEK FERRIES

« on: December 30, 2005, 11:09:31 AM »

As many of yoy may know, I'm webmaster of a site on Greek ferries (www.adriaticandaegeanferries.com), so I'm particularly interested about them. I love our ferries, particularly the ex-Japanese ones, and my two favourite ferries in Greece are the El. Venizelos, our flagship, and the Lato, in my opinion the best ever ferry conversion from Japan. Anyway, I think that these years we're lacking the class, the luxe, the intelligence which was usual on older ferries and conversion like the ex-Minoan Japanese ferries, the Lato, the Lissos, the sisters Ionian Island and Galaxy, the Rodanthi, the Marina, the Dame M. Unfortunately now, due to wrong and stupid laws, ferries are equipped with very uncomprehensible internal arrangements, and ferries like the Nissos Mykonos, which also runs on overnight services, has 971 seats and only 31 cabins! The same for many ex-channel ferries, which often are rebuilt as "waiting halls". Particularly, I think that the former "Pride of Kent" was not an object of beauty neither in her former appearance, so Greeks could have not get her more worse than it was! But, I think that she could have been a good ferry on Rhodes line, if only she had 500 more berths, decent internal space and an outdoor swimming pool at stern.