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F/B Espresso Egitto

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Ship	Espresso Egitto (1980)	Building Spec.	Cantieri Navali Luigi Orlando, Leghorn, Italy, 1974 – N° 139
Call Sign	IBSD	IMO Number	7325095
GRT	7.873	DWT	2.283
Dimensions	125,5 x 18,5 x 5,2	Engines	2 Fiat – GMT 14cyl, 10.297 kW
Speed	19 knots; 21 knots max	Passengers	800
Beds	432	Cars	280
Lane Metres	396	Sister Ships	Express Pegasus Grecia († 2010) Venezia († 2010)
Registry Port	Venice	Flag	Italian
Former Names/Own.	Espresso Cagliari – Trans Tirreno Express 1974-76 Espresso Cagliari – Adriatica Navigazione (charter) 1976-80
New Names/Own.	Egitto Express – Adriatica Navigazione 1991-04 Chartered to Hellenic Mediterranean Lines Summer 2001 and 2002 Riviera del Conero – Adria Ferries 2004-07/2012 AF Michela – Adria Ferries 07/2012-04/2015 Lampedusa – Traghetti delle Isole 04/2015à
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The “Espresso Egitto” enters Adriatica fleet in 1980, after being delivered to Trans Tirreno Express in 1974 as their “Espresso Cagliari”. Anyway this ship served only a few trips for TTE: from June 1974 was chartered to Adriatica, maintaining her original name. The first service performed for the Venice-based company was the only Ancona – Greece ferry service of the company’s history, the Ancona – Corinth – Heraklion, effected till December 1974; at that date the ferry was transferred to Venice – Egypt line, calling at Piraeus and Heraklion enroute to Alexandria. Later the ferry called also at Dubrovnik on summertime. On 1991 the ferry was heavily rebuilt to improbe her passenger services, and when she was redelivered to the owner by INMA shipyard of La Spezia had the name “Egitto Express”, being redeployed on Italy – Egypt service until 1993. Subsequently involved in various services for Adriatica, mainly serving Greece, was chartered to Hellenic Mediterranean Lines for Summer seasons 2001 and 2002; then on winter 2002 for a short period to Tirrenia. After having operated for Adria Ferries as the “Riviera del Conero”, and later as the “AF Michela” for eleven years linking Italy and Albania, in 2015 was sold to Traghetti delle Isole and renamed “Lampedusa”.

Photo Gallery

Commis’s collection	From Wikimedia Commons

TRANS TIRRENO EXPRESS – Espresso Cagliari (1974-1976)

Venice		Piraeus, 17/09/1984	Piraeus	Piraeus	Piraeus
Pieter Inpijn collection	Fleet File Rotterdam	Paul Morgan	Emilio Barenghi	Pavlos Protopapas	Pavlos Protopapas
		Piraeus, 11/07/1990 Frank Först

ADRIATICA – Espresso Egitto (1976-1991)

Patras, 30/07/1995	Igoumenitsa, July 2002
Michele Lulurgas	Aleksi Lindström

ADRIATICA – Egitto Express (1991-2004)

Ancona, 25/10/2004	Ancona, 25/10/2004
Dominik Wagner	Dominik Wagner

ADRIA FERRIES – Riviera del Conero (2004-2005)

Ancona, 23/06/2007	Ancona, 03/04/2010
Michele Lulurgas	Michele Lulurgas

ADRIA FERRIES – Riviera del Conero (2006-2011)

Ancona, 28/06/2011	Ancona, 28/06/2011
Michele Lulurgas	Michele Lulurgas

ADRIA FERRIES – Riviera del Conero (2011-2012)

Durres, 13/08/2012	Ancona, 16/08/2013
Erald Spahiu	Michele Lulurgas

ADRIA FERRIES – AF Michela (2012-2015)

Trapani, 02/01/2016	Lampedusa, 14/06/2016
Carsten Dettmer	Captain Peter

TRAGHETTI DELLE ISOLE – Lampedusa (2015à)

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