Ro/Ro Campania - Palermo

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Ship	Campania (2001)	Building Spec.	Cantieri Navali Alto Adriatico yards, Yrieste, Italy, 1981 – N° 211
Call Sign	ITEW	IMO Number	7717965
GRT	6.225	DWT	5.400
Dimensions	146,28 x 22,74 x 6,76	Engines	2 Fiat-GMT A420 12c. 11.033 kW
Speed	21,5 knots	Passengers	24
Beds	24	Cars
Lane Metres	1.596	Sister Ships
Registry Port	Naples	Flag	Italian
Former Names/Own.	Julia – Lloyd Triestino 1981-88 Campania – Tirrenia Navigazione 1988-01
New Names/Own.	Campania – Tirrenia Navigazione divisione Adriatica 2004-05 Guido – El Salam Shipping 11/2005-06/2007 Charter to Balearia* 09/2006-02/2007* Carlo Morace – Ustica Lines 06/2007-03/2011 Scrapped at Aliaga on March 2011 as “Carlo Morace”.
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This ferry was part of an order for four ro/ros placed to various Italian yards by Lloyd Triestino, a company of Finmare Group which was operating cargo services between Italy and Africa; this vessel, after her delivery in 1981 sterted linking Genoa with Dakar, in Senegal, and Abdijan, in Ivory Coast. In the years 1987 and 1988 Tirrenia, the main Finmare company, decided to rebuild her three cargos (“Staffettoni class”) and the three near sisters of the present vessel to passenger vessels; to fit the lacking of cargo vessels, Tirrenia took over the three Japanese-built ro/ro sisters of Adriatica and this ferry, which left her original name “Julia” for the new name “Campania”, according to the new way of Tirrenia to name their cargos after Italian districts. Being operated on various services, was finally deployed to Leghorn – Catania line; this service and the ferry were however transferred to Adriatica in 2001. After the incorporation of Adriatica by Tirrenia, it seems that the ferry would be soon repainted in Tirrenia livery, also due to the works needed on the ferry after a recent mechanical trouble occurred on June 2005. However, Tirrenia decided not to proceed with the works needed and put the vessel for sale, stopping her at Genoa from August 2005. The “Campania” find a buyer in November 2005, being acquired by Al Salam shipping of Egypt. The only “trouble” of my “ship-spotter” career is related to this ship: after having entered Varco Galvani, where the ferry is moored, just after when I was ready to shot the ship a very nasty man shouted me and the friend which was beside me and forced us to leave the port area, as long as I had made a terrible crime. Wouldn’t be a good idea to allow the “poor ship spotters” to enter the port areas without any trouble after presenting an Identity Card or a Passport? In fact I think that it’s a good fact that someone make photos to ferries!