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In 2017 in the fleet of Corsica Sardinia Ferries a ferry from 2.080 pax and 700 cars will enter
the ship is yielded by the Tallink group for 91,5 million euros
November 10, 2015
The Medinvest Italian, society that the Helvetic financial institution Lozali is under responsibility of that in its turn controls the navigation company Corsica Sardinia Ferries, has acquired from the Estonian group Tallink the ship Superstar operated from the Finnish company Tallink Silja Line, than currently it employs it on the Helsinki-Tallinn route and that it will continue to use it also the next year contextually graces to a contract of chartering which signed to the sale. The ship, for whose Tallink construction had invested 120 million euros, is yielded for 91,5 million euros.
Corsica Sardinia Ferries has specified that the ferry will be renamed Mega Express 6 and that will be employed beginning from 2017 on the routes served from the company and in order to contribute to the development of new lines and the conquest of new markets.
"After the recent acquisition of Mega Andrea, happened in last month of May - the commercial director of Corsica Sardinia Elba Ferries has declared, Raoul Zanelli Bono - we are pleased to introduce this new income in the fleet of the yellow ships: Mega Express 6 will offer to standard much elevated of quality and comfort, online with the strategies and the policies of development of the company".
Mega Express 6, constructed in 2008 in the Fincantieri ship yard of Ancona, can receive 2,080 passengers and 700 cars or 1,930 linear meters of goods. The ship is equipped of 187 cabins and reaches a cruise speed of 28 knots.
In order to replace the Tallink Superstar it will take at the beginning in delivery of a 2017 new fed ferry to which liquified natural gas that it is under construction in the Finnish ship yard Turku Meyer and that will have an ability to 2.800 passengers. For the construction of the ship, that it will be employed on the same Helsinki-Tallinn route, the Estonian group has invested 230 million euros.
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The Medinvest Italian, society that the Helvetic financial institution Lozali is under responsibility of that in its turn controls the navigation company Corsica Sardinia Ferries, has acquired from the Estonian group Tallink the ship Superstar operated from the Finnish company Tallink Silja Line, than currently it employs it on the Helsinki-Tallinn route and that it will continue to use it also the next year contextually graces to a contract of chartering which signed to the sale. The ship, for whose Tallink construction had invested 120 million euros, is yielded for 91,5 million euros. 
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