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F/B Espresso Catania

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Ship	Espresso Catania (1994)	Building Spec.	Fincantieri Cant. Navali Italiani, Palermo, Italy, 1993 – N° 5922
Call Sign	IBVM	IMO Number	9031686
GRT	14.398	DWT	5.535
Dimensions	150,43 x 23,43 x 6,02	Engines	2 GMT – Sulzer 8c, 10368 kW
Speed	19 knots	Passengers	100
Beds	100 in 25 cabins	Cars
Lane Metres	1.820	Sister Ships	Beniamino Carnevale Copernicus Denia Ciutat Creativa Drujba Galileusz Marco Polo
Registry Port	Palermo	Flag	Italian
Former Names/Own.	Via Mediterraneo – Viamare 1993-94
New Names/Own.	Espresso Catania – Tirrenia Navigazione divisione Adriatica 2004-07/2012 Espresso Catania – Tirrenia Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione 07/2012-01/2017 Hartmut Puschmann – Tirrenia C.I.N. 01/2017-02/2019 Hartmut Puschmann – Ntiolio Shipping 02/2019-11/2019 Chartered to Tirrenia Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione 02/2019-11/2019 Amal – Ntiolio Shipping 11/2019
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Member of a seven-sister ships family, was delivered to the operator Viamare on 01/06/93 with the name “Via Mediterraneo”, as the last one of the new Finmare Group shipping company and the only built at Palermo instead of Dutch shipyards. Was transferred the following year to another operator of Finmare Group, “Adriatica di Navigazione”, changing her hull colour from Viamare green to Adriatica avana brown, being deployed between Ravenna and Catania, one of the new motorways of the sea, on East coast of Sicily. The ferry remained on the same service even after the sale to Tirrenia and the lose of her elegant livery. On February 14^th, 2000, she was involved in a collision with the Portuguese ship “Zafir”, when the Portuguese vessel sank with 13 deaths among her crew. After the privatisation of Tirrenia, the company decided to replace her on Ravenna – Catania line with bigger tonnage, so the “Espresso Catania” was moved to other routes of Tirrenia network, mainly operating out of Leghorn, linking Tuscany with Olbia and Caralis. Later, the ferry linked also Genoa and Civitavecchia with Sardinia, until her delivery to the new owners, who took place in November 2019, after being advertised for years on sales lists. The “Amal” was then sent to Greece for minor conversion works.

Photo Gallery

Ravenna	1997
Jeanburlon	Alberto Marchesi

ADRIATICA – Espresso Catania (1994-2004)

Naples, April 2008	Ravenna, 03/04/2010
Gianpaolo Pesarini	Michele Lulurgas

TIRRENIA DIVISIONE ADRIATICA – Espresso Catania (2004-2012)

Leghorn, 13/06/2013	Leghorn, 13/06/2013
Wil Weijsters	Wil Weijsters

TIRRENIA COMPAGNIA ITALIANA DI NAVIGAZIONE – Espresso Catania (2012-2014)

Olbia, 25/06/2016

Carsten Dettmer

TIRRENIA COMPAGNIA ITALIANA DI NAVIGAZIONE – Espresso Catania (2014-2017)

Olbia, 02/06/2017	Civitavecchia, 22/06/2017
Michele Lulurgas	Tore Hettervik

TIRRENIA COMPAGNIA ITALIANA DI NAVIGAZIONE – Hartmut Puschmann (2017-2019)

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