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F/B Espresso Ravenna

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Ship	Espresso Ravenna (1994)	Building Spec.	Van der Giessen – De Noord, Krimpen av Ijssel, Holland, 1993 – N° 287
Call Sign	ICKV	IMO Number	9019080
GRT	14.398	DWT	5.535
Dimensions	150,43 x 23,43 x 6,02	Engines	2 Zgoda – Sulzer 8ZAL40S, 11529 kW
Speed	19,5 knots	Passengers	100
Beds	100 in 25 cabins	Cars
Lane Metres	1.820	Sister Ships	Amal Beniamino Carnevale Copernicus Denia Ciutat Creativa Drujba Galileusz
Registry Port	Palermo	Flag	Italian
Former Names/Own.	Via Jonio – Viamare 1993 Via Ionio – Viamare 1993-94 Chartered to TT Line 05/1993-08/93
New Names/Own.	Espresso Ravenna – Tirrenia Navigazione divisione Adriatica 2004-07/2012 Espresso Ravenna – Tirrenia Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione 07/2012-01/2017 Chartered to Balearia 03/2015-09/2015 Barbara Krahulik – Tirrenia Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione 01/2017-11/2019 Marco Polo – TT Line 11/2019
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Was built as one of five ro/ro’s built for Finmare group, which intended to deploy them on the “Sea Highways” project marketed as “Viamare”. However, as every “good Italian project” the good intentions were early abandoned and the ship was soon chartered to TT Line for their Baltic service. Back to Italy, was part of Adriatica fleet from 1994, when she was transferred together with the sister “Espresso Catania” from Viamare to the Venice-based operator. In 2001 she faced the competition of Anek Lines’s “Kriti I”, a truly passenger ferry with a big space for freight, however the first experience of a foreign operator in a domestic Italian service lasted only a year and Adriatica was again the only competitor on Ravenna – Catania line. During 2004 the company was absorbed by Tirrenia, which left the ship is still on her service. On 2007 she entered in the Tirrenia development plan 2007-2012; among the planned the building of 15 new ferries, divided between the companies of Tirrenia group, the Tirrenia board planned also to lengthen the ferry with a section of 500 lane metres for cargo. This plan, anyway, didn’t materialize, and the ferry was transferred to the private-owned Tirrenia in her original shape. When Compagnia Italiana di Navigazione, the new parent company of Tirrenia, decided to deploy new larger ro/ro vessels on Ravenna – Catania line, the “Espresso Ravenna” was relocated in Thyrrenian Sea, serving almost all the shipping routes of the company, but also being put up for sale or charter. After a very short spelling in Red Sea, the longest charter of the “Espresso Ravenna” was between March and September of 2015, when was chartered to Balearia, being deploued on both Valencia – Palma – Ibiza line, and Algeciras – Tanger service. Back in Tirrenia hands, was first repainted in Moby Cargo livery, and from January 2017, being also renamed as “Barbara Krahulik”, a more Moby-related name, even if the ferry was never officially transferred to Moby Lines. On April 2017, the “Barbara Krahulik” received again the Tirrenia marks on her hull, repainted in a new promotional livery for the new Malta – Catania service, maintaining these colours until her sale to TT Line of Germany, which took place on November 2019. Renamed “Marco Polo”, was deployed on Trelleborg – Klaipeda, a different line than those plied in her first TT Line experience, after having been rebuilt with the extension of Deck 7 to the funnel and the improvement of public spaces, with a new bar and an Airplane-type seats room, being also fitted with scrubbers.

Photo Gallery

Venice, 06/01/1997	Ravenna	1997
Egidio Ferrighi	Jeanburlon	Alberto Marchesi

ADRIATICA – Espresso Ravenna (1994-2004)

Rijeka, 06/08/2008	Ravenna, 16/03/2009
Dragan	Vladimir Knyaz

TIRRENIA DIVISIONE ADRIATICA – Espresso Ravenna (2004-2012)

Leghorn, 26/04/2016

Michele Lulurgas

TIRRENIA COMPAGNIA ITALIANA DI NAVIGAZIONE – Espresso Ravenna (2012-2016)

Piombino, 13/07/2018	Leghorn, 28/07/2018
Michele Lulurgas	Michele Lulurgas

TIRRENIA COMPAGNIA ITALIANA DI NAVIGAZIONE – Barbara Krahulik (2017-2019)

Klaipeda, 18/04/2020	Klaipeda, 30/04/2020
Gena Anfimov	Gena Anfimov

TT LINE – Marco Polo (2019)

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