Blue Star Ferries

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Blue Star Paros in the port of Piraeus
Blue Star 1 in the port of Zeebrugge, June 2007

Blue Star Ferries is a Greek ferry company with headquarters and home port in Piraeus , which emerged from the former Strintzis Lines . It is one of the more important ferry companies in the Eastern Mediterranean and also has a certain importance on the German tourism market. Together with Superfast Ferries , it forms the Premium Alliance , which is part of the Attica Enterprises investment group.

Blue Star Ferries currently only serve domestic Greek routes, the Italian-Greek routes are served by Superfast Ferries. The fleet consists of three ships on the international and eight ships on the national routes. All ships are modern large ferries .

The ferry company met the quality assurance criteria of the International American Shipping Bureau and received the ISO 9002 quality certificate . Through its German branch in Lübeck , it is a member of the Association of Ferry Shipping and Ferry Tourism (VFF).

history

Blue Star Ferries was founded as Strintzis-Lines by the family of the same name from Kefalonia . Initially this offered a ferry connection to the mainland and later expanded to include the ferry connection between Italy and Greece, as well as between Italy and what was then Yugoslavia. The four heirs withdrew from the business in the late 1990s, Superfast Ferries as the new owner introduced the new name Blue Star Ferries (initially: "Blue Star by Strintzis Lines"), and modernized the fleet. Two people from the Strintzis family later took over the route to Kefalonia again from the new Blue Star Ferries with the new shipping company Strintzis Ferries , which they operated until 2012.

stretch

International (Superfast Ferries)

National

Dodecanese

Cyclades

Crete

North Aegean

Former routes

Cyclades

Ionian islands

North Aegean

North Sea

Ships

Web links

Commons : Blue Star Ferries  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reference to the cooperation with Superfast
  2. ↑ Stretch
  3. ↑ Our Fleet. Retrieved February 21, 2015 .