Biladi (ship)
 The Biladi in Tangier, May 2011
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The Biladi was a ferry of the Morocco- based shipping company Comarit , which was commissioned in 1980 as Liberté for the Société nationale maritime Corse Méditerranée (SNCM). The ship remained in service until 2012 and was dismantled after a year of lay-up in Aliağa, Turkey .
history
The Liberté was built under shipyard number 161 at Dubigeon-Normandie SA in Nantes and launched on December 5, 1979. The official christening of the ship took place on June 19, 1980. The Liberté was taken over by SNCM on June 22, 1980 and put into service on the route from Marseille to Tunis .
Between November 1990 and June 1991 the ship Cie. Marseillaise de Reparations in Marseille extended from 141.5 to 164.4 meters. The capacity increased to 1,604 (formerly 1,240) passengers and 520 (formerly 453) cars. In June 1991 the Liberté resumed the liner service from Marseille to Tunis.
In December 2002, the Morocco-based ferry company Comarit took over the ship and from then on used it as Biladi in service from Sète to Tangier .
In May 2012, after 32 years of service , the Biladi was retired and launched in Sète. After a year of lay-in, the ship was sold in March 2013 to be scrapped in Aliağa, Turkey, where it arrived on July 15, 2013 and was dismantled there in the following months.
