The Cleopatra Moon is a ferry of the Valletta- based Cleopatra Navigation. It was put into service in 1971 as a bougainvillea for the Japanese shipping company Nippon Car Ferry and remained in service for them until 1976. The ship was then in service as the Zeralda until 2006 , before it became the property of Cleopatra Navigation. Since 2010 is Cleopatra Moon in Suez on .
history
The Bougainvillea was built under the hull number 301 in the shipyard of Nippon Kokkan in Shimizu and ran on December 26, 1970 by the stack . After delivery to Nippon Car Ferry on April 10, 1971, the ship began ferry service between Osaka and Miyazaki .
After almost 30 years in service, the Zeralda was sold in May 2005 to the Valletta-based Cleopatra Navigation and used there together with her sister ship Shahd Cleopatra (formerly Hibiscus ) as Cleopatra Moon under the flag of Honduras . In 2010 the ship ended its active service time after 39 years and has been in Suez ever since.
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