Ro/Ro Espresso Ravenna

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Ship	Espresso Ravenna (1994)	Building Spec.	Van der Giessen – De Noord, Krimpen av Ijssel, Holland, 1993 – N° 287
Call Sign	ICKV	IMO Number	9019080
GRT	14.398	DWT	5.535
Dimensions	150,43 x 23,43 x 6,02	Engines	2 Zgoda – Sulzer 8ZAL40S, 11529 kW
Speed	19,5 knots	Passengers	100
Beds	100 in 25 cabins	Cars
Lane Metres	1.820	Sister Ships	Espresso Catania Galileusz Lazio Scandola Puglia Via Adriatico
Registry Port	Palermo	Flag	Italian
Former Names/Own.	Via Jonio – Viamare 1993 Via Ionio – Viamare 1993-94 Chartered to TT Line* 05/1993-08/93*
New Names/Own.	Espresso Ravenna – Tirrenia Navigazione divisione Adriatica 2004à
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Was built as one of five ro/ro’s built for Finmare group, which intended to deploy them on the “Sea Highways” project marketed as “Viamare”. However, as every “good Italian project” the good intentions were early abandoned and the ship was soon chartered to TT Line for their Baltic service. Back to Italy, was part of Adriatica fleet from 1994, when she was transferred together with the sister “Espresso Catania” from Viamare to the present operator. In 2001 she faced the competition of Anek Lines’s “Kriti I”, a truly passenger ferry with a big space for freight, however the first experience of a foreign operator in a domestic Italian service lasted only a year and Adriatica was again the only competitor on Ravenna – Catania line. Since 2004 the company was absorbed by Tirrenia, but the ship is still on her service. On 2007 she entered in the Tirrenia development plan 2007-2012, another way to eat some of Italian taxpayers’s money: between the project of building 15 new ferries, divided among the companies of Tirrenia group, the Tirrenia board planned also to lengthen the ferry with a section of 500 lane metres for cargo. Would this happen?

Photo © Jeanburlon, Ravenna #6323

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