mardi 11 mars 2008

BALTIC PRINCESS CHRISTENED


The latest TALLINK CRUISE FERRY, namely the BALTIC PRINCESS was christened on march 6, 2008 in Helsinki

She is a GALAXY sistership, this way she is 212 m long, has 935 cabins. A section (40% of the hull actually) was built at les Chantiers de l'Atlantique, St Nazaire France(now AKER YARDS FRANCE SA), and then towed to Helsinki shipyards about 1 year ago.

Baltic Princess is due to start operations on summer 2008 on Tallinn-Helsinkin run, replacing her sistership which will be moved on Turku-Aland-Stockholm line replacing the SILJA FESTIVAL which is to sail on Stockholm-Riga line.

The Superstar, a fast daily cruise ferry is also to be delivered next month for the Tallinn-Helsinki line and third cruise ferry will be delivered to TALLINK in 2009.


photo: Aleksi Lindstrom

3 commentaires:

Admin a dit…

ferriesare quite interesting travel than other mode of travel. I like ferries and am planning by end December 2008 to France to have long ferry travel.

Rainerpeets a dit…

oh no, 935 cabins. been several times with this ferries, I never tried to know how many cabins it has except bothering where the theater, food court and shopping zone is.

ashley ferries

ferries a dit…

These ferries are very interesting to travel from ferry to france