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Adria
Ferries was established in 2004 by a pool of Marche district businessmen, leaded by the
local Adriatica di Navigazione
shipping agency. The aim of the company, unusually based in Dublin,
Ireland, was to resume the Ancona – Durres
link, which was performed four times a week by the Italian State-owned Adriatica di Navigazione, which
according to them was abandoned due to the low profitability of the service.
This statement was soon contradicted by this newly-established company, which
bought from Adriatica the “Egitto
Express”, renamed “Riviera del Conero” and engaged on the previous Adriatica timetables, and also the charter of another ferry
for the Ancona – Durres line, the “Sansovino”, from Adriatica
di Navigazione. Adria Ferries continued successfully
its operations till Summer 2005, when some mechanical problems stopped the
“Riviera del Conero”; these problems seemed to be serious, so the company
chartered for the Summer the “Venezia”, another former Adriatica
ferry sold for a song and then redeployed with success on former Adriatica routes, then the company bought a new ferry, the
“Daedalus” fom the Greek Minoan Lines, a superb
classic ferry which was soon deployed on Ancona – Durres line as the “Riviera Adriatica”. Even if it was thought that repairing the
“Riviera del Conero” wasn’t convenient the ferry was back in service for the
2006 summer, allowing the charter of “Riviera Adriatica”
to Algerie Ferries. After a regular alternance
between the two ferries on the only service carried by the company, from
December 2008 Adria Ferries started also a Bari
– Durres
service, initially announced for all the season but quitted because of the
charter of “Riviera Adriatica” to Algerie
Ferries. Since 2010, aiming to offer a daily sailing on Bari – Durres line to
its customers, Adria Ferries signed code-share agreements with Tirrenia and, after their retirement from Albania line,
with Adriatica Traghetti. In June 2011 Adria Ferries
bought from Tirrenia the “Domiziana”,
which was operated under her original name for Summer season, being later
renamed as “AF Francesca”. During 2012, all the other vessels were renamed
according to the new naming policy of the company, the “Riviera Adriatica” being renamed “AF Claudia Prima” and the
“Riviera del Conero renamed “AF Michela”. In 2013,
the company bought another ferry from the former Italian State-owned company,
the “AF Marina”, former known as “Toscana”, planning to open a new ferry
service from Trieste to Durres, two ports which lost their connection after the
end of Halkydon Shipping services in 2011; the line,
anyway, is exercised only sometimes, being the “AF Marina” mainly routed to
Ancona, pairing the “AF Michela” until her sale to Traghetti delle Isole in 2015. In the same
year, Adria Ferries started a codeshare agreement, which is still valid, with Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) on Bari –
Durres line, offering a daily service between the two ports with one ship each
operator. The “AF Claudia Prima” was sold in 2016 to Greek interests; from that
year until the end of 2019, the main ferry of Ancona – Durres line was chartered
from other companies, the first one was the “Bridge” of European Seaways, until
2017, then the “AF Michela” from Stena RoRo, which
was in service for two years from October 2017, before being replaced by the new
acquisition of Adria Ferries, the new “AF Claudia”, deployed on Ancona – Durres
line.
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Ferries – Particular of ship name on “AF Francesca”, 07/07/12
Adria
Ferries – Particular of ship name on “AF Marina”, 24/06/13
Adria
Ferries – Particular of ship name on “AF Marina”, 24/06/13
Adria
Ferries – Particular of ship name on “AF Michela”, 16/08/13
Adria
Ferries – Particular of ship name on “AF Michela”, 21/04/18
Adria
Ferries – Particular of ship name on “AF Michela”, 21/04/18
Adria
Ferries – Particular of ship name on “Riviera Adriatica”,
01/12/05
Adria
Ferries – Particular of ship name on “Riviera Adriatica”,
01/12/05
Adria
Ferries – Particular of ship name on “Riviera del Conero”,
23/06/07
Adria
Ferries – Particular of ship name on “Riviera del Conero”,
23/06/07
Adria
Ferries – Company marks on “AF Francesca”, 07/07/2012
Adria
Ferries – Company marks on “AF Marina”, 24/06/2013
Adria
Ferries – Company marks on “AF Michela”, 21/04/2018
Adria
Ferries – Company marks on “Riviera Adriatica”,
01/12/2005
Adria
Ferries – Company marks on “Riviera Adriatica”,
13/01/2007
Adria Ferries – Funnel of “AF
Marina”, 24/06/2013
Adria
Ferries – Funnel of “AF Michela”, 21/04/2018
Adria
Ferries – Funnel of “Riviera Adriatica”, 01/12/2005
Adria
Ferries – Funnel of “Riviera del Conero”, 02/11/2006
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