Levante (ship, 1994)

Levant

The Levant under the old name Lazio in action near Tirrenia . (2006)

Ship data flag  Italy other ship names Lazio (1994-2013) Ship type RoPax ship Callsign IOLL home port Naples Owner Giovanni Visentini Shipyard Fincantieri , Palermo Build number 5923 Launch November 6, 1993 takeover June 1994

Ship dimensions and crew length 150.38 m ( Lüa ) width 23.4 m Draft Max. 6.02 m measurement 14,398 GT / 4,319 NRZ

Machine system machine 2 × GMT Sulzer diesel engines (8ZAL40S 4S) Machine performance 11,520 kW (15,663 hp) Top speed 17 kn (31 km / h)

Transport capacities Load capacity 7,330 dwt running track meters 1,600 m Permitted number of passengers 100

Others Classifications Registro Italiano Navale Registration numbers IMO 9031698

The Levante is a RoPax ship owned by the Italian owner Giovanni Visentini , which works for Balearia between Barcelona and the Balearic Islands . It was procured in 1994 under the name Lazio from Tirrenia di Navigazione .

history

Lazio

The ship was built in 1994 under the hull number 5923 at the Fincantieri shipyard in Palermo , Italy . The launching of the ship took place on 6 November 1993 in June 1994 it was delivered to Tirrenia di Navigazione and first in the Mediterranean used. On November 14, 2012, a fire broke out in the engine room of the ship near Lipari while it was en route from Messina to Civitavecchia without passengers .

From January 2013 the ship was chartered by Stena SeaLine and used between Ukraine and Turkey .

Levant

In the early summer of 2013 the ship was taken over by Giovanni Visentini and refurbished and painted white in a Greek shipyard for 500,000 US dollars . In June 2013 the ship was named Levante . It was chartered by the Greek Harmonica Lines , which wanted to use the ship on the connection between Brindisi and Igoumenitsa . However, on the maiden voyage on July 21, it turned out that the Levant's unloading ramp is too high for the port facility of Igoumenitsa and that the descent is dangerously steep for the trucks, which is why regular operation of the connection was not started. The ship was therefore chartered from Balearia in September and is now in service from Barcelona to Menorca and Ibiza during the autumn and winter months .

Web links

Commons : Levante  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information about the ship from Fakta om Fartyg

Footnotes

1. ↑ LEVANTE - IMO 9,031,698th In: http://www.shipspotting.com/ . Retrieved November 24, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Levant. (No longer available online.) Balearia , archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; accessed on November 24, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Principio di incendio su traghetto Tirrenia. November 14, 2012, accessed November 24, 2013 (Italian). 
4. ↑ Ferry News: Stena SeaLine introduces a new vessel and a new port in the Black Sea ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ferrylines.com press release, January 2013 
5. ^ Harmonica Lines debutta sulla linea Brindisi-Igoumenitsa. (No longer available online.) Ship2Shore, July 25, 2013, archived from the original on December 3, 2013 ; Retrieved November 24, 2013 (Italian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Incorporació del ferry 'Levante' a les rutes de Barcelona amb Menorca i Eivissa. (No longer available online.) Balearia , September 19, 2013, archived from the original on December 2, 2013 ; Retrieved November 24, 2013 (Catalan). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.