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This ferry company appears on the market for the first
time at the end of 2007, after having bought the “Sansovino”
ftom Italian State-owned company SI.RE.MAR.. After
having been renamed “Santa Maria I”, the ship
was deployed between Bari and Durres,
linking Italia and Albania
for three-four times a-week depending on the period. As new competitor in a
very interesting market, with a great expansion in traffic, the G Lines is
rumoured as a possible buyer also for the other two sisters of the “Santa Maria
I”, which are still owned by SI.RE.MAR. and frequently appearing on brokers’s sales lists; anyway these rumours didn’t
materialize, maybe because the company was aware about the “fragility” of these
ferries, experiencing various mechanical troubles on its “Santa Maria I”, which
spent more time laid up for repairs rather than between Italy and Albania. The
last breakdown happened in August 2008, during the Summer peak: since that
moment the “Santa Maria I” never sailed again for G Lines and was laid up in
various places of Piraeus area awaiting repairs; at the end of 2010 anyway, the
company went out of business and sold the ferry to Albanian interests.
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G Lines – Funnel of “Santa Maria
I”, Bari, 21/01/08, Photo © Erald Spahiu
G Lines – Particular of ship name
on the “Santa Maria I”, Bari. 21/01/08, Photo © Erald
Spahiu
G Lines – Company livery on
“Santa Maria I”, Bari, 21/01/08, Photo © Erald Spahiu
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