{"id":5143,"date":"2017-12-16T17:18:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=5143"},"modified":"2023-09-30T20:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T18:22:35","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=5143","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=5136\">Back to&nbsp;Ship<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table class=\"has-very-light-gray-to-cyan-bluish-gray-gradient-background has-background\"><tbody><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Building contract<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Start of Production<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>20\/12\/2004<\/td><td>Keel laid<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Launch<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Chartered to Stena Line<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>Stena Line chartered to Balearia<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11\/5\/2007<\/td><td>Delivered to Visemar Di Navigazione Srl, Bari, Italy<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>20\/5\/2007<\/td><td>Palma &#8211; Barcelona service Balearia service.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>18\/6\/2007<\/td><td>Sold to Stena RoRo , continue to Italian flag and chartered to&nbsp; Balearia.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12\/11\/2007<\/td><td>Owner Stena North Sea Ltd.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>20\/2\/2010<\/td><td>End of Balearia charter.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>20\/2\/2010<\/td><td>Drydocking at Barcelona.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1\/3\/2010<\/td><td>Laid up &amp; docking at Rotterdam.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>26\/3\/2010<\/td><td>Charter to Ave Line. New name Baltic Amber.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>29\/3\/2010<\/td><td>3 crewmember injured due to accident on lifeboat training<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10\/4\/2010<\/td><td>Travem\u00fcnde &#8211; Ventspils route.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4\/2010<\/td><td>Travem\u00fcnde &#8211; Riga route.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6\/9\/2010<\/td><td>Departures cancelled laid up at Travem\u00fcnde.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>16\/10\/2010<\/td><td>Charter to DFDS Seaways.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>17\/10\/2010<\/td><td>Kiel &#8211; Klaipeda route.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>21\/2\/2011<\/td><td>End of charter to DFDS.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/2011<\/td><td>Charter to LD Lines.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/2011<\/td><td>Marseille &#8211; Tunis route<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>17\/4\/2011<\/td><td>Saint Nazaire (Nantes) &#8211; Gijon route<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>26\/6\/2011<\/td><td>New name Norman Asturias<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>13\/11\/2011<\/td><td>End of charter. Laid on El Ferrol.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12\/2011<\/td><td>Charter back to LD Lines<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12\/2011<\/td><td>Saint Nazaire (Nantes) &#8211; Gijon route<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2\/2012<\/td><td>Drydocking<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3\/11\/2013<\/td><td>Poole &#8211; Santander route.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>15\/2\/2014<\/td><td>Delays due to bad weather<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7\/9\/2014<\/td><td>Service cancelled. Laid up.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>23\/9\/2014<\/td><td>Arrived to Algeciras.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>28\/9\/2014<\/td><td>Charter to Inter Shipping. Algeciras &#8211; Tanger Med. route.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>15\/1\/2016<\/td><td>Chartered to ANEK Lines<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2\/2016<\/td><td>Patras &#8211; Igoumenitsa &#8211; Venice route<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2\/2016<\/td><td>Sold to ANEK Lines, Greece. New name Asterion.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;4\/2018<\/td><td>&nbsp;Charter to Brittany Ferries. New name Connemara. Cyprus flag.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;Cork &#8211; Santander and Portsmouth &#8211; Santander routes.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;6\/11\/2019<\/td><td>&nbsp;France flag.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;11\/2020<\/td><td>&nbsp;Cyprus flag.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;15\/11\/2022<\/td><td>&nbsp;Sold to Ferry Lines Singapore PTE Ltd, Singapore. (Bluebridge). Bahamas flag.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;2\/2023<\/td><td>&nbsp;Wellington &#8211; Picton route.<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&nbsp;<\/td><td>&nbsp;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to&nbsp;Ship &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;History &nbsp; Building contract &nbsp; Start of Production 20\/12\/2004 Keel laid &nbsp; Launch &nbsp; Chartered to Stena Line &nbsp; Stena Line chartered to Balearia 11\/5\/2007 Delivered to Visemar Di Navigazione Srl, Bari, Italy 20\/5\/2007 Palma &#8211; Barcelona &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=5143\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5136,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35560,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5143\/revisions\/35560"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}