Ro/Ro AEGEAN SUN

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Ship	Aegean Sun (2003) ΕΤΖΙΑΝ ΣAN	Building spec.	1975 at Kristiansands M.V. yards, Kristiansand, Norway N° 222
GRT	8.055	DWT	2.935
Dimensions	137,55 x 20,60 x 7,17	Engines	2 Pielstick 12c, 8.825 kW
Speed	18,5 knots	Passengers	12
Beds	12	Cars
Lane meters	1.139	Sister ships	Aegean Star Assi Euro Link (sunk in 2003) Assi Scan Link Stena Gothica Stora Korsnäs Link I (sunk in 1991) Strada Gigante Taxiarchis Tor Hollandia Ulusoy 6
Registry port.	Piraeus	Flag	Greek
Former Owners	DSR RoRo 1975-90 Deutsche Seerederei 1990-96 Seahawk 1996-03 Aegean Cargo 2003	Former Names	Fichtelberg 1975-91 Spirit of Dublin 1991-92 Fichtelberg 1992 Norcliffe 1992-93 Fichtelberg 1993-94 Dana Minerva 1994-96 Seahawk 1996-02 Cetam Victoriae 2002 Seahawk 2002-03
New Owners		New Names
Line	Piraeus – Heraklion; Marghera (Venice) – Patras; Bari – Patras

This ro/ro is part of the ten sister ships launched at the Norwegian yards of Kristiansand and Sandefjord, two cities most famous because of the presence in Color Line and DFDS itineraries. Originally ordered by Tor Line as the “Tor Caledonia”, was instead sold to the Government of Democratic Republic of Germany, named as “Fichtelberg”, and deployed on a link between the Eastern Germany, Rostock, to the capital of Cuba island, Havana. Chartered to Tor Line for a brief period in 1983, was taken over by the new Government of United Germany in 1990, which started a long series of charters, whose the attempt to follow it can easily cause a big headache. After sailings in Northern Sea and Baltic Sea was sold in 1996 to Norwegian interests, which didn’t stopped the series of charters. Among the various operators of the present ro/ro until the sale to Aegen Cargo at the end of 2003, we can find Fred Olsen, P&O and also Pandoro, a company whose its name surely have a serious meaning, but here in Italy remembers only a typical Christmas pie! Before her arrival in Aegean sea she sailed mainly in the Channel, Northern Sea, Irish Sea, Baltic Sea and was also deployed on long links between England and Spain and between Estonia and Germany for ESCO. Aegean Cargo, the owner of the ship, never operated her under its colours but immediately chartered out the “Aegean Sun” to Anek Cargo, which started with her a new cargo service between Greece and Italy, sailing two times a-week from Patras, once bound for Bari, the other sailing to Marghera, the commercial port near Venice.

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