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Hellenic Seaways, ANES, Saronic Ferries, Aegean Flying Dolphins Year - Round Aegina (Souvala) Antigone none: Saronic Ferries Year - Round Aegina (Agia Marina) Aero 1 Highspeed, Aero 2 Highspeed, Aero 3 Highspeed, Magic I none: Hellenic Seaways, Magic Sea Ferries Seasonal Agkistri
In 2004, Panagiotis ("Takis") Iliopoulos (1932–2022) and his son Marios founded Seajets, originally named Dolphin Sea Lines. [3]Today, it operates a fleet of 14 high speed vessels, [4] and 3 conventional Ro-Ro ferries which services routes from the ports of Piraeus and Rafina to several Cycladic islands.
Blue Star Ferries is a sister company of Superfast Ferries, as both are part of Attica Group and have had partnership in some routes, such as Rosyth–Zeebrugge and presently Piraeus–Heraklion. In 2000, the company took delivery of two roll-on/roll-off (RO/RO) ferries built at the Dutch shipyard Van der Giessen de Noord .
MFD was renamed to Hellas Flying Dolphins in the summer of 2001 [14] and Hellenic Seaways in 2005, following the consolidation of its subsidiaries Hellas Ferries, Saronikos Ferries, and Sporades Ferries. [citation needed] Minoan Lines continued to own a large stake exceeding 30% in Hellenic Seaways until 2018, when it was sold to Attica Group. [15]
In January 2020 the Nissos Chios was renamed Blue Star Chios together with its sister ship Nissos Mykonos, which was renamed Blue Star Mykonos, after the ships changed service from Hellenic Seaways to Blue Star Ferries. There was a 1967-built Greek passenger-car ferry with the same name. The old Nissos Chios was scrapped in 2006. [3]
People board a ferry from Santorini to Piraeus, a port city near Athens, on Tuesday. - Alkis Konstantinidis/Reuters.
Fast Ferries is a Greek ferry company operating from the Greek mainland to the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea. The company was founded in 1989 by Panagiotakis Bros. and currently operates a fleet of ro-ro ferries.
Blue Star Myconos in Piraeus. Blue Star Mykonos (Greek: Μπλού Στάρ Μύκονος) is a ferry owned by Blue Star Ferries that currently operates most commonly on the Piraeus-Syros-Mykonos-Ikaria-Samos-Chios-Mytilene-Kavala route. It is driven by four Wartsila 12V38 main diesel engines and has an operating speed of 25 knots, making it ...