Siremar

Siremar
legal form	Società per Azioni
founding	1976
Seat	Palermo
Number of employees	500, of which 200 are seasonal
Branch	transport
Website	carontetourist.it/it/siremar

The Siremar (Sicilia Regionale Marittima) is an Italian ferry company based in Palermo , which serves the former post ship lines to the smaller islands around Sicily.

history

Hydrofoil Platone near Lipari

The Siremar in 1975 as a successor of companies Sirena and Navisarma established to ferry transport to the smaller islands around Sicily sure. Since its inception, the company has been a subsidiary of the Tirrenia di Navigazione state line , which initially held 51% of Siremar's capital. The Italian state has heavily subsidized the ferry routes to the islands in all regions for decades; in 1994 the subsidy was 55 billion lire and in 2009, a year before privatization, it was 60 million euros with a turnover of around 100 million euros. When the EU asked for larger public contracts to be put out to tender in the future (which also included the so-called territorial continuity , i.e. ferry lines commissioned by the state), the Italian state decided to privatize the previously state-owned Tirrenia and its daughters. The state-determined and guaranteed ferry lines were originally supposed to expire at the end of 2008; however, this was extended twice during the privatization process, finally until the end of 2010. In preparation for the liberalization of the market, Tirrenia took over 100% of Siremar and the other regional ferry lines in 2009. In the same year the state decided to transfer the regional lines to the respective regions, which should then carry out the privatization on their own. The Sicily region was the only one to refuse the transfer, with the result that Tirrenia and Siremar were eventually privatized together.

Predecessor company

After the Second World War, ferry traffic was initially resumed with steamships from the pre-war period. On January 1, 1954, the newly founded took Navisarma from Messina to traffic to the Aeolian Islands, while the other islands of the Si.Re.Na were served. These state-subsidized ferry services were put out to tender under the Postal Services Act of 1953. In 1974 Si.Re.Na took over all services previously offered by Naivsarma. In 1975 all services were then transferred to the newly established SIREMAR regional line, which initially took over most of the ships.

insolvency

On August 5, 2010, Tirrenia and its only remaining subsidiary filed for bankruptcy. The competent court states in its report u. a. the following causes for the financial problems:

• The personnel costs of the state-owned shipping companies have been significantly higher in recent years than those of the competing private lines
• Tirrenia and its subsidiary could not react quickly enough to changes in the market because of the prices contractually agreed with the state
• The decision to modernize the fleet of the Tirrenia and the Siremar with very fast high-speed craft led to high investments in the order of 1 billion euros with correspondingly high financing costs
• shortly after the new high-speed ferries went into service, fuel costs exploded by a total of € 270 per ton, while capacity utilization fell due to the economic crisis and increasing private competition

privatization

In 2011 the company was sold and is currently owned by Compagnia delle Isole , in which the Sicily region as well as regional companies and the Lauro Group from Naples hold shares . In 2014, the Regional Administrative Court of Lazio (TAR Lazio) ruled that the tender for privatization was incorrect and must be repeated.

Driving area

HSC Isola di Vulcano in Vulcano

Antioco hydrofoil in Milazzo

Ferry Filippo Lippi in the port of Lipari

Ferry Laurana in front of Lipari

Ferry Paolo Veronese in Trapani

The Siremar supplies the smaller archipelagos around Sicily: the Aeolian Islands , Egadi Islands , Pelagic Islands , Pantelleria and Ustica . Depending on the location of the islands, travel times range from around 30 minutes to several hours. The traffic takes place with classic car ferries , high-speed craft and hydrofoils .

Routes

The shipping company maintains the following routes, all of which are operated year-round with different frequencies:

Aeolian Islands

• Naples - Stromboli - Panarea - Salina - Lipari - Vulcano - Milazzo (approx. 17h, twice a week, ferry)
• Milazzo - Vulcano - Lipari - Salina (4h, daily, HSC)
• Milazzo - Vulcano - Lipari - Salina - Filicudi - Alicudi (6h, 4 times a week, ferry)
• Milazzo - Vulcano - Lipari - Salina - Filicudi - Alicudi (3h, daily, hydrofoil)
• Milazzo - Vulcano - Lipari - Salina - Panarea - Stromboli (6h, twice a week, ferry)
• Milazzo - Vulcano - Lipari - Salina - Panarea - Stromboli (3h, daily, hydrofoil)

Ustica

• Palermo - Ustica (3h, daily, ferry)
• Palermo - Ustica (1.5h, daily, hydrofoil)

Egadi Islands

• Trapani - Levanzo - Favignana - Marettimo (2h, daily, ferry)
• Trapani - Levanzo - Favignana - Marettimo (1h, daily, hydrofoil)

Pantelleria

• Trapani - Pantelleria (6h, daily, ferry)

Pelagic Islands

• Porto Empedocle - Linosa - Lampedusa (11h, daily, ferry)

fleet

The Siremar maintains a fleet of classic car ferries, high speed craft, and hydrofoils, the latter all from the Rodriquez Cantieri Navali shipyard in Messina. Many types of ships are in use in several companies of the Tirrenia Group; in many cases, ships have been and are also given to other regional companies or chartered as required; According to.

Ferries

Surname	Type	Trunk line	GT	Construction year	Drive (kW)	Speed kn	Passengers / berths	Car	Remarks
Laurana	car ferry	Naples - Aeolian Islands - Milazzo	10977	1992	7060	17th	752/348	276	chartered from Adriatica di Navigazione SpA since 2004;
Palladio	car ferry	Porto Empedocle - Pelagic Islands	10977	1992	7060	17th	752/348	276	Chartered by Adriatica di Navigazione SpA since 2004
Filippo Lippi	car ferry	Trapani - Aegadian Islands	1555	1990	4266	18.5	1250 / -	76
Paolo Veronese	car ferry	Trapani - Pantelleria	2894	1986	5561	19th	700 / -	93
Pietro Novelli	car ferry	Milazzo - Aeolian Islands	1940	1979	5561	18th	700 / -	93	Sister ships: Oglasa, Marmorica (both Toremar )
Isola di Stromboli	HSC	Milazzo - Aeolian Islands	4600	1999	15600	28	800 / -	170
Isola di Vulcano	HSC Acquastrada TMV70	Milazzo - Aeolian Islands	1925	1999	9400	32	544 / -	57	Sister ships: Isola di Capraia, Isola di Procida, Isola di Capri (all Caremar )

Hydrofoils

Surname	Type 1	Trunk line 2	GT	Construction year	Drive (kW)	Speed kn	Passengers	Sources / remarks
Masaccio	RHS 160	k. A.	224		2685	36	210
Mantegna	RHS 160	k. A.	224		2685	36	210
Tiziano	Foilmaster	Ustica	259	1994	2 × 2000	40	242
Atanis	Foilmaster	Aeolian Islands	194		2 × 2000	40	238
Plato	Foilmaster	Aeolian Islands	194		2 × 2000	40	238
Eraclide	Foilmaster	Aeolian Islands	194	2005	2 × 2000	40	238
Eschilo	Foilmaster	Aeolian Islands	194		2 × 2000	40	238
Antioco	Foilmaster	Aeolian Islands	194		2 × 2000	40	238
Calypso	Foilmaster	Egadi Islands	194		2 × 2000	40	238
Fabricia	RHS160	Egadi Islands	224	1987	2685	34	210	With Toremar until 2013

1) All Siremar hydrofoils are from the Rodriquez Cantieri Navali
2) according to the 2014 timetable

Former Siremar ships

(Selection, after)

• Caravaggio (1975–1991), ex Maren Mols , built in Aalborg in 1966, scrapped in India in 2010
• La Valletta (1976–1989), built for Tirrenia in 1971, scrapped in Turkey in 2005
• Piero della Francesca (1979–2007), built in 1979 for Siremar
• Giotto (1980–1986), ex Julle , built in Bremen in 1962, scrapped in Pakistan in 2003
• Giovanni Bellini (1985–2005), built in 1985 for Siremar, now with Toremar
• Ettore Carpaccio (1992–2006), ex El Arish , built in Bergen in 1980
• Guizzo (2002) HSC (40 knots, 3439 GT), built for Tirrenia in 1993, scrapped in Turkey in 2012
• Sansovino (2003–2007), sister ship of Laurana and Palladio

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CdI investe 40 milioni in Siremar , Il sole 24ore v. August 3, 2012 (Italian).
2. ↑ Siremar: Chi siamo ( Memento of the original of August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Italian). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Siremar Spa Navi e Armatori (Italian).
4. ↑ Privatizzazioni. Nominato il nuovo amministratore unico - Finisce dopo 26 anni l'era di Pecorini , Il sole 24ore July 25, 2010 (Italian).
5. ↑ Piccolo manuale per affossare le privatizzazioni , Il sole 24 ore, August 8, 2010 (Italian).
6. ↑ Blog of Andrea d'Ambra: Bruxelles: May chiesto all'Italia di privatizzare Tirrenia. ( Memento of the original from April 10, 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. 
7. ↑ ^{a b} tirrenia-in-as.it Relazione sulle cause di insolvenza (…) Per Tirrenia di Navigazione SpA in as , Tribunale Civile di Roma, May 2011 (Italian).
8. ↑ economiaweb: Siremar, privatizzazione da rifare (Italian).
9. ↑ ^{a b} Siremar Orari 2014 (Italian).
10. ↑ Siremar: La Flotta (Italian)
11. ↑ ^{a b} Faktaomfartyg: Siremar (Swedish).
12. ↑ Faktaomfartyg: Masaccio (Swedish)
13. ↑ ^{a b} foils.org: Rodriques RHS160 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (English) 
14. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Rodriquez Cantieri Navali: Foilmaster ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Italian) 
15. ↑ Navi e Capitani: Eraclide  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Italian)  
16. ↑ Faktaomfartyg: Fabricia (Swedish)