F/B
ARKADI
Photo © Emilio Barenghi, Piraeus
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Ship |
Arkadi (1988) AΡΚΑΔΙ |
Building Spec. |
Kochi Heavy Industries, Kochi, Japan, 1983 – N° 2312 |
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Call Sign |
SVSG |
IMO Number |
8319081 |
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GRT |
10.859 |
DWT |
3.859 |
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Dimensions |
128,21 x 21 x 5,35 |
Engines |
2 Niigata-Pielstick 6PC2 –
6/6L 5.589 kW |
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Speed |
16 knots |
Passengers |
1.275 |
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Beds |
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Cars |
400 |
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Lane Metres |
605 |
Sister Ships |
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Registry Port |
Rethimnon |
Flag |
Greek |
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Former Names/Own. |
Bizan Maru – Kyodo Kisen 1983-88 |
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New Names/Own. |
Arkadi – Anek Lines 2000-02 |
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Line |
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The
“Arkadi” gets the bronze-medal among the younger second-hand vessels arrived in Greece: after the “Candia” and
the “Rethimnon”, which arrived
in Greece after only a year of life in 1973, the ferry arrived
in Greece when she was five
years old, spent as “Bizan Maru”
linking Osaka and Komatsushima.
Not a particularly speedy
vessel (only 16 knots), she opened the Piraeus – Rethimnon
line in 1989 for Rethimniaki N.E., with a travelling
time of about 11 hours leaving from Piraeus on Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 19.30
and Sunday at 07.30, and from Rethymnon Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 19.30. The service became successful and was
doubled with daily departures in 1995 after the deployment of a second vessel;
at that time the “Arkadi” was repainted with the new “Cretan
Ferries” marks and livery, but maintains the name written in Greek chartacters at bow, a very unusual feature as long as Greek
ferries have the Greek-written name only at stern. Anyway the life of the ship
under the new livery lasts only few time: in 1999 the
company was bought by ANEK and was repainted with Anek
Lines livery in 2000. The “Arkadi” remained in
Photo from Stefanos
Antoniadis’s collection
Photo © George Giannakis, Piraeus, 26/04/1994 #6170
Photo ©
George Giannakis, Piraeus, 04/07/1995 #6169
Photo © Michele Lulurgas, Piraeus, 25/06/96 #321
Photo © Stefanos Antoniadis, Rethimnon #1589
ANEK LINES F/B Arkadi – Photo © Pieter Inpijn
ANEK LINES F/B Arkadi – Photo
© Michele Lulurgas, Piraeus, 07/10/00 # 103
ARAB BRIDGE MARITIME COMPANY F/B Pella