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It operated routes from Malta to Pozzallo and Catania in Sicily, serving as a link between Malta and the rest of Europe, until it was replaced by the MV Saint John Paul II in March 2019. The vessel was leased to the Trinidad and Tobago Inter-Island Ferry Service between 2019 and 2021 to serve as an inter-island ferry between Port of Spain and ...
Virtu Ferries is a Maltese company founded in 1988 that operates ferry services from Malta to Sicily by catamaran. The company is part of the Virtu Holdings. [1] It has a subsidiary Venezia Lines which runs seasonal services from Venice. It carries over 250,000 passengers and 25,000 vehicles annually.
On 21 December 2007, Maria Dolores carried the first Maltese passengers able to travel without passports to Pozzallo, on the same day that Malta joined the Schengen Area. [1] Maria Dolores was meant to reduce delivery time of goods traveling between Malta and Sicily, reducing importation and exportation costs for Maltese companies. [5]
MV or HSC [a] Saint John Paul II is a high-speed catamaran ferry owned and operated by Virtu Ferries. Built by Incat in 2017–18, the vessel entered service as a ferry between Malta and Sicily in March 2019. It is the largest vessel of its kind in the Mediterranean Sea, and the second largest in the world.
Malta has 3,096 kilometres of road, 2,704 km (87.3%) of which are paved and 392 km are unpaved as of 2008. [7] 114 km of Malta's roads are on the Trans-European Transport Network but it has no motorways. [8] Roads in Malta are maintained and operated by Infrastructure Malta. [9] The official road user guide for Malta is The Highway Code. [10]
On the morning of 29 July 1955, Star of Malta was returning to Malta from Syracuse. [5] At the time, there was a lot of mist, [5] and due to a navigational error, the vessel ran aground on the Merkanti Reef about 80 m (260 ft) off the coast of St. Julian's and capsized. [6] [7] At the time of its sinking, the vessel was carrying 57 passengers. [5]
A food safety expert weighs in on flour bugs, also known as weevils, that can infest your pantry after one TikToker found her flour infested with the crawlers.
The Port of Pozzallo is the major port of the province of Ragusa on the Mediterranean coast of Sicily and is one of the most important harbours on the island. The port was initially designed for a volume of goods of only 500.000 tons a year but today it has risen to over 1.500.000 tons.