- Source: Cruiseferry
A cruiseferry is a ship that combines the features of a cruise ship and a Ro-Pax ferry. Many passengers travel with the ships for the cruise experience, staying only a few hours at the destination port or not leaving the ship at all, while others use the ships as means of transportation.
Cruiseferry traffic is mainly concentrated in the seas of Northern Europe, especially the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. However, similar ships traffic across the English Channel as well as the Irish Sea, Mediterranean and even on the North Atlantic. Cruiseferries also operate from India, China and Australia.
Baltic Sea cruiseferries
In the northern Baltic Sea, two major rival companies, Viking Line and Silja Line, have for decades competed on the routes between Turku and Helsinki in Finland and Sweden's capital Stockholm. Since the 1990s Tallink has also risen as a major company in the area, culminating with acquisition of Silja Line in 2006.
List of largest cruiseferries of their time
The term "cruiseferry" did not come into use until the 1980s, although it has been retroactively applied to earlier ferries that have large cabin capabilities and public spaces in addition to their car- and passenger-carrying capacity.
List of cruiseferry operators
= Åland
=Eckerö Linjen
() Viking Line
= Australia
=Spirit of Tasmania
= Canada
=BC Ferries
Marine Atlantic
= Croatia
=Jadrolinija
= Denmark
=DFDS Seaways
= Estonia
=Tallink
= Faroe Islands
=Smyril Line
= Finland
=Eckerö Line
Silja Line (operated by Tallink)
() Viking Line
Finnlines
Wasa Line
= France
=Brittany Ferries
Corsica Ferries - Sardinia Ferries
Corsica Linea
= Greece
=ANEK Lines
Blue Star Ferries
Hellenic Seaways
LANE Lines
Levante Ferries
Minoan Lines
NEL Lines
Superfast Ferries
Ventouris Ferries
= Hong Kong
=Genting Hong Kong (defunct)
= Ireland
=Brittany Ferries
DFDS Seaways
Irish Ferries
P&O Ferries
Stena Line
= Italy
=Grandi Navi Veloci
Grimaldi Lines
Corsica Ferries
Moby Lines
Tirrenia di Navigazione
= Mexico
=Baja Ferries
= Norway
=Color Line
Fjord Line
= Poland
=Polferries
= Spain
=Trasmediterranea
Baleària
= Sweden
=Stena Line
= United Kingdom
=UK P&O Ferries
UK NorthLink Ferries
UK Condor Ferries
UK Irish Ferries
UK Stena Line
UK Caledonian MacBrayne
= Japan
=Taiheiyō Ferry
Gallery
See also
River cruise
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kapal feri pesiar
- GTS Finnjet
- Silja Line
- Oslo
- Tallink
- Daftar padanan istilah bahari
- Cruiseferry
- Baltic Sea cruiseferries
- MS Silja Serenade
- Belorussiya-class cruiseferry
- Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft
- MS Estonia
- MS Rhapsody (cruiseferry)
- Viking Line
- MS Silja Europa
- Tallink
