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On 24 December 1985, Summer Star was laid up in Piraeus. In December 1986, following a takeover of her owners by Agapito Bros, Piraeus, she was renamed Corfu Diamond. During 1987, she served on the Brindisi – Patras route. In 1988, Corfu Diamond was sold to the Megacycle Shipping Co, Limassol, Cyprus and was renamed Larnaca Rose. In 1991, she ...
Destinations Vessels Ports of Call Companies Dates Operated Aegina: Aero 1 Highspeed, Aero 2 Highspeed, Aero 3 Highspeed, Flying Dolphin Athina, Flying Dolphin Venus I, Flyingcat 5, Flyingcat 6, Nissos Aigina, Foivos, Achaeos, Apollon Hellas, Poseidon Hellas, Antigone
Asterion II is a Ro-Ro/Passenger ferry, built in 1991 at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries at Kobe, Japan and put into service by ANEK in 2018 (previously operated under different names and owners). She holds a total of 720 passengers, [ 1 ] 840 cars and 117 trucks and has 451 beds for passengers.
The port of Piraeus was expected to become the busiest port of the Mediterranean in terms of container traffic by 2019. [30] Piraeus handled 4.9 million TEUs in 2018, an increase of 19,4% compared with 2017 climbing to the number two position of all Mediterranean ports. [31]
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.
The company also launched routes from Piraeus to Rethymno port, in Crete with Highspeed 5 in summer 2008. In the summer season of 2010, Hellenic Seaways launched for the first time itineraries from Piraeus to Dodecanese islands, Kos and Rhodes, (through Paros) with the passenger ferry Nissos Rodos, but after an unsuccessful period they were ...
The Bahamas ferry was on route to Blue Lagoon Island on Tuesday (14 November) for a shore excursion when it was hit by rough seas and became submerged. A 75-year-old passenger was tragically killed.
Leros (Greek: Λέρος), also called Lero (from the Italian language), is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese in the southern Aegean Sea.It lies 317 kilometres (197 miles; 171 nautical miles) from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by a nine-hour ferry ride or by a 45-minute flight from Athens.