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                                 History

	Building contract
	Start of Production
20/12/2004	Keel laid
	Launch
	Chartered to Stena Line
	Stena Line chartered to Balearia
11/5/2007	Delivered to Visemar Di Navigazione Srl, Bari, Italy
20/5/2007	Palma – Barcelona service Balearia service.
18/6/2007	Sold to Stena RoRo , continue to Italian flag and chartered to  Balearia.
12/11/2007	Owner Stena North Sea Ltd.
20/2/2010	End of Balearia charter.
20/2/2010	Drydocking at Barcelona.
1/3/2010	Laid up & docking at Rotterdam.
26/3/2010	Charter to Ave Line. New name Baltic Amber.
29/3/2010	3 crewmember injured due to accident on lifeboat training
10/4/2010	Travemünde – Ventspils route.
4/2010	Travemünde – Riga route.
6/9/2010	Departures cancelled laid up at Travemünde.
16/10/2010	Charter to DFDS Seaways.
17/10/2010	Kiel – Klaipeda route.
21/2/2011	End of charter to DFDS.
3/2011	Charter to LD Lines.
3/2011	Marseille – Tunis route
17/4/2011	Saint Nazaire (Nantes) – Gijon route
26/6/2011	New name Norman Asturias
13/11/2011	End of charter. Laid on El Ferrol.
12/2011	Charter back to LD Lines
12/2011	Saint Nazaire (Nantes) – Gijon route
2/2012	Drydocking
3/11/2013	Poole – Santander route.
15/2/2014	Delays due to bad weather
7/9/2014	Service cancelled. Laid up.
23/9/2014	Arrived to Algeciras.
28/9/2014	Charter to Inter Shipping. Algeciras – Tanger Med. route.
15/1/2016	Chartered to ANEK Lines
2/2016	Patras – Igoumenitsa – Venice route
2/2016	Sold to ANEK Lines, Greece. New name Asterion.
4/2018	Charter to Brittany Ferries. New name Connemara. Cyprus flag.
	Cork – Santander and Portsmouth – Santander routes.
6/11/2019	France flag.
11/2020	Cyprus flag.
15/11/2022	Sold to Ferry Lines Singapore PTE Ltd, Singapore. (Bluebridge). Bahamas flag.
2/2023	Wellington – Picton route.