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Photo © Egidio Ferrighi, Caralis #1450

Ship	Via Adriatico (2001)	Building spec.	Frisian Welgelegen B.V., Harlingen, Holland (hull) / Van der Giessen – De Noord, Krimpen, Holland (finishing work), 1992 – N°958
Call Sign	ICNL	IMO Number	9019066
GRT	14.398	DWT	5.535
Dimensions	150,43 x 23,43 x 6,02	Engines	2 Zgoda-Sulzer, 11.529 kW
Speed	19,5 knots	Passengers	100
Beds	100 in 25 cabins	Cars
Lane meters	1.850	Sister ships	Amal Marco Polo Galileusz Drujba Copernicus Denia Ciutat Creativa
Registry port.	Palermo	Flag	Italian
Former Names/Own	Via Adriatico – Viamare (Finmare) 1992-96 Via Adriatico – Tirrenia Navigazione 1996-01
New Names/Owners	Via Adriatico – Tirrenia Navigazione divisione Adriatica 2004-06/2012 Via Adriatico – Tirrenia / Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione 06/2012-01/2017 Beniamino Carnevale – Tirrenia / Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione 01/2017
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Second ferry of “Viamare” project, her delivery followed soon the one of the first of five Viamare sisters, then followed by two other sisters built for Tirrenia at Fincantieri Palermo yards. After her delivery of November 1992 was deployed on the “sea highway” between Voltri, at the Western end of Genoa port area, and Termini Imerese, a town close to the capital of Sicily, Palermo, carrying both trailers and brand-new Fiat cars produced in the factory of the city. In 1996 the Viamare brand and its elegant green livery were cancelled transferring the ownership of the vessel to Tirrenia and being repainted in the classical orange of Tirrenia’s ro/ro ships. In 1998 the service was diverted to Genoa’s main port, then in 2001, after some changes over cargo services within Tirrenia group, the ferry was transferred to Adriatica, even if maintaining her original name and registry port, being repainted with the classical livery of the company based at Venice, but horribly lacking the St. Mark’s lion on her funnel. Even if operated by Adriatica, the ship was employed on a route which had nothing to do with Adriatic Sea, the Genoa – Termini Imerese. From 2004 summer, after the merger of Adriatica with Tirrenia, the ship headed back to Tirrenia, even if she maintained the Adriatica livery until 2008. That year she was also engaged in the trips from Naples to Caralis, carrying the garbage trucks to Sardinia. Actually, she operates out of Caralis, sailing mainly to Leghorn and Naples. This ferry was also involved in the most unpleasant piracy fact against my photos: one of my pictures, shot at Leghorn in 2010, was published on Tirrenia – Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione website without asking myself for a permission. When I asked the Company about their behaviour, a manager of the company told me that it was a glitch made by someone and removed the photo, without offering me any refund, neither even a symbolic one, nor writing a single word for apologize. As long as I know how many money could ask a photographer for a photo, and knowing also how much the shipping companies are supporting the shipspotters in these ISPS times (almost nothing), I think that Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione didn’t made a good impression to me. Since 2017 bears the name of “Beniamino Carnevale”, as the naming policy for cargo vessels of the parent-company Moby Lines; one wonders for how long the ferry will maintain this name, due to the frequent rumours about her sale to other operators, but still being the last Viamare-class ferry in Tirrenia’s fleet.

Photo Gallery

Genoa, May 1993	Genoa, August 1994
Carlo Martinelli	Carlo Martinelli

VIAMARE – Via Adriatico (1992-1996)

Genoa, August 2000	Genoa. August 2000
Commis	Commis

TIRRENIA NAVIGAZIONE – Via Adriatico (1996-2001)

Genoa, 15/07/2001

Carlo Martinelli

ADRIATICA – Via Adriatico (2001)

Caralis, 03/05/2006	Naples, 2009
Seawolf	Michael Segeth

ADRIATICA – Via Adriatico (2001-2004)

Caralis, 11/06/2013	Leghorn, 11/06/2014
Wil Weijsters	Michele Lulurgas

TIRRENIA NAVIGAZIONE DIVISIONE ADRIATICA – Via Adriatico (2010-2012) / TIRRENIA COMPAGNIA ITALIANA NAVIGAZIONE – Via Adriatico (2012-2015)

Leghorn, 09/04/2016	Caralis, 17/09/2016
Michele Lulurgas	Egidio Ferrighi

TIRRENIA COMPAGNIA ITALIANA DI NAVIGAZIONE – Via Adriatico (2015-2017)

Valletta, 18/04/2018	Valletta, 18/04/2018
Emmanuel L. Stafrace	Emmanuel L. Stafrace

TIRRENIA COMPAGNIA ITALIANA DI NAVIGAZIONE – Beniamino Carnevale (2017)

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