{"id":40251,"date":"2024-12-13T20:37:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T18:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=40251"},"modified":"2024-12-26T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T09:27:10","slug":"blue-star-chios-history-21","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/?page_id=40251","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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                                    History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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8\/2\/1999<\/td>Ordered by Strintzis Lines.<\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Building started as Superferry Chios.<\/td><\/tr>
21\/3\/2006<\/td>Keel laid <\/td><\/tr>
2000<\/td>Strintzis Lines was transferred to Attica Group and was renamed Blue Star Ferries.<\/td><\/tr>
2002<\/td>Due to slow progress of building. Blue Star Ferries cancelled order. Laid up at Salamina.<\/td><\/tr>
15\/11\/2006<\/td>Launch<\/td><\/tr>
20\/8\/2004<\/td>Sold to Hellas Flying Dolphins, Greece.<\/td><\/tr>
14\/6\/2007<\/td>Sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
<\/td>Second sea trial <\/td><\/tr>
18\/7\/2007<\/td>Delivered to Hellenic Seaways Maritime SA, Piraeus, Greece.<\/td><\/tr>
20\/7\/2007<\/td>Piraeus – Chania route.<\/td><\/tr>
25\/9\/2007<\/td>Piraeus – Chios – Mytilene route.<\/td><\/tr>
1\/11\/2008<\/td>Piraeus – Syros – Mykonos – Chios – Mytilene route.<\/td><\/tr>
7\/10\/2009<\/td>Piraeus – Paros – Naxos – Ikaria – Samos route.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/11\/2009<\/td>Piraeus – Syros – Mykonos – Chios – Mytilene route.<\/td><\/tr>
8\/2\/2010<\/td>Piraeus – Paros – Naxos – Ikaria – Samos route.<\/td><\/tr>
12\/2\/2010<\/td>Piraeus – Syros – Mykonos – Chios – Mytilene route.<\/td><\/tr>
17\/5\/2010<\/td>Piraeus – Chios – Mytilene route.<\/td><\/tr>
16\/6\/2012<\/td>Ran aground near Chios.<\/td><\/tr>
27\/7\/2012<\/td>Piraeus – Chios – Mytilene route after repairing completed.<\/td><\/tr>
19\/6\/2013<\/td>Piraeus – Syros – Mykonos – Evdilos – Ikaria – Karlovasi route.<\/td><\/tr>
16\/7\/2013<\/td>Piraeus – Syros – Mykonos – Patmos – Ikaria – Fournoi – Samos – Chios – Oinousses – Mytilene – Limnos – Kavala route.<\/td><\/tr>
22\/4\/2014<\/td>Charter to Balearia. Algeciras – Tanger Med. and Ceuta – Tanger Med. routes.<\/td><\/tr>
6\/10\/2014<\/td>Denia – Palma de Mallorca – Ibiza route.<\/td><\/tr>
2016<\/td>Valencia – Mostaganem route.<\/td><\/tr>
2017<\/td>Almer\u00eda – M\u00e1laga – Melilla route.<\/td><\/tr>
2017<\/td>End of charter. Refurbished.<\/td><\/tr>
2018<\/td>Piraeus – Paros – Naxos – Ikaria – Fournoi – Astypalaia – Patmos -Leipsoi – Leros – Kalymnos – Kos – Nisyros – Tilos – Symi – Rhodes – Karpathos – Castellorizon and Piraeus – Chios – Mytilene routes.<\/td><\/tr>
2019<\/td>Piraeus – Ikaria – Fournoi – Astypalaia – Patmos – Leipsoi – Leros – Kalymnos – Kos – Nisyros – Tilos – Symi – Rhodes – Kasos – Karpathos – Castellorizon and Piraeus – Chios-Sigri routes.<\/td><\/tr>
2020 <\/td>Back to Blue Star Ferries service. New name Blue Star Chios.<\/td><\/tr>
2020<\/td>Piraeus – Ikaria – Fournoi – Astypalaia – Patmos – Leipsoi – Leros – Kalymnos – Kos – Nisyros – Tilos – Symi – Rhodes – Kasos – Karpathos – Castellorizon and Piraeus – Mykonos – Chios – Sigri routes.<\/td><\/tr>
2\/2023<\/td>Charter to Africa Morocco Lines.<\/td><\/tr>
10\/2\/2023<\/td>Algeciras – Tanger Med route.<\/td><\/tr>
3\/2023<\/td>Back to Blue Star Ferries.<\/td><\/tr>
2023<\/td>Piraeus – Santorini – Anafi – Heralion – Siteia – Kasos – Karpathos – Chalki – Rhodes route.<\/td><\/tr>
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Back to\u00a0Ship                                     History LOI 8\/2\/1999 Ordered by Strintzis Lines. Building started as Superferry Chios. 21\/3\/2006 Keel laid 2000 Strintzis Lines was transferred to Attica Group and was renamed Blue Star Ferries. 2002 Due to slow progress of … Continue reading History<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":40241,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40251","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40251"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40263,"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40251\/revisions\/40263"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matkustajalaivat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}