F/B Espresso Livorno

f/b espresso livorno

Photo from Commis’s collection, Venice # 6300

Ship	Espresso Livorno (1976) Charter 1976-80	Building Spec.	Cantieri Navali Luigi Orlando, Leghorn, Italy, 1973 – N° 138
Call Sign	ICER	IMO Number	7224514
GRT	7.873	DWT	2.283
Dimensions	125,5 x 18,5 x 5,2	Engines	2 Fiat – GMT 14cyl, 10.297 kW
Speed	21 knots	Passengers	835
Beds	432	Cars	280
Lane Metres	396	Sister Ships	Express Pegasus Riviera del Conero Venezia
Registry Port	Venice	Flag	Italian
Former Names/Own.	Espresso Livorno – Trans Tirreno Express 1973-76
New Names/Own.	Espresso Grecia – Adriatica Navigazione 1980-99 Grecia – Halkydon Shipping 1999à
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The “Espresso Livorno” was the first passenger vessel of the shipowner Spiros Magliveras, which previously had a good success as a freight operator. The ferry, delivered in 1973 by Orlando yards of Leghorn, which had previously built all the freight vessels of the parent compant Traghetti del Mediterraneo, was deployed on Leghorn – Olbia line. The service lasts only until 1976, when the ship was chartered to Adriatica Navigazione of Venice. Even if the ferry maintained her name, was repainted in Adriatica colours and deployed on weekly sailings from Venice to Piraeus and then to Istanbul and Smirne or to Limassol and Haifa, alternating the final part of the trip every week. In 1980 she passed to Adriatica, being renamed with the more appropriate name of “Espresso Grecia” and deployed on Brindisi – Greece line and later to Albania services, until her sale in 1999 to Halkydon Shipping as “Grecia”.

ADRIATICA NAVIGAZIONE F/B Espresso Grecia – Photo © Egidio Ferrighi

ADRIATICA NAVIGAZIONE F/B Espresso Grecia – Photo from Commis’s collection # 6299

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