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Pride of Bilbao (now Moby Orli), an archetypical cruiseferry. Built for Rederi AB Slite for the Baltic cruise market and operated until 2010 by P&O Ferries between Portsmouth in the UK and Bilbao in the Basque Country, Spain. She was sold by Irish Continental Group at the end of her charter to P&O Ferries in 2010 and the operated for St. Peter Line among Stockholm, Tallinn, Helsinki and Saint Petersburg, before being moved to Italy.

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

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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

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This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (May 2023)

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.[citation needed]

Year Name Tonnage1 Company Traffic area Flag Notes
1956 MV Akdeniz 8,809 GRT Turkish Maritime Lines Mediterranean Sea  Turkey Built 1955
1975 MS Belorussiya 16,331 GRT Black Sea Shipping Company Black Sea  Soviet Union Alongside five identical sisters built 1975–76
1976 MS Napoléon [fr] 20,079 GRT SNCM Mediterranean  France Sent to Comarit in 2002.
1977 GTS Finnjet 24,605 GRT Enso-Gutzeit (Finnlines traffic) Baltic Sea  Finland Gas turbine-powered. Also fastest and longest
1981 MS Finlandia 25,905 GRT Effoa (Silja Line traffic) Baltic Sea  Finland Alongside identical sister MS Silvia Regina
1982 MS Scandinavia 26,747 GT Scandinavian World Cruises [da],
later DFDS Seaways		 New York—Bahamas
Copenhagen—Oslo		  Denmark
1985 MS Svea 33,829 GT Johnson Line (Silja Line traffic) Baltic Sea  Sweden
1985 MS Mariella 37,799 GT SF Line (Viking Line traffic) Baltic Sea  Finland
1989 MS Athena 40,012 GT Rederi AB Slite (Viking Line traffic) Baltic Sea  Sweden
1989 MS Cinderella 46,398 GT SF Line (Viking Line traffic) Baltic Sea  Finland
1990 MS Silja Serenade 58,376 GT Silja Line Baltic Sea  Finland
1991 MS Silja Symphony 58,377 GT Silja Line Baltic Sea  Sweden
1993 MS Silja Europa 59,914 GT Tallink Baltic Sea  Estonia Ordered by Rederi AB Slite for Viking Line traffic
2001 MS Pride of Rotterdam 59,925 GT P&O Ferries North Sea  Netherlands
2001 MS Pride of Hull 59,925 GT P&O Ferries North Sea  Netherlands
2004 MS Color Fantasy 75,027 GT Color Line Kattegat, Skagerrak  Norway
2007 MS Color Magic 75,100 GT Color Line Kattegat, Skagerrak  Norway
1May be specified in gross tonnage (GT) or gross register tons (GRT).

List of cruiseferry operators

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  1. ^ Ngui, Yantoultra (2022). "How a Billionaire's Cruise Empire Imploded in Hong Kong". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2 November 2024 – via EBSCOhost.
  2. ^ "Travelscene boosts options in Cruiseferry programme". Travel Trade Gazette UK & Ireland. No. 2534. 2002. p. 63. Retrieved 2 November 2024 – via EBSCOhost.