CIUDAD DE VALENCIA. © Frank Lose

DFDS’ new Baltic charter vessel leaves the Mediterranean

FerryThe Visemar (Visentini)-owned RoPax CIUDAD DE VALENCIA left the Mediterranean overnight 16. October (GMT+2), bound for Klaipeda, Lithuania, where it is due to arrive on 21 October. The 2020-built ferry has spent the past few weeks at a shipyard in Algeciras, Spain.

CIUDAD DE VALENCIA is heading to the Baltic Sea for a charter to DFDS. The operator announced in April that the chartered RoPax would increase capacity, particularly for passengers, on its Karlshamn–Klaipeda route by replacing OPTIMA SEAWAYS, which has only around a third of CIUDAD DE VALENCIA’s passenger capacity. The difference in freight capacity is marginal: 2,566 lane metres compared with OPTIMA SEAWAYS’ 2,300.

Since delivery, CIUDAD DE VALENCIA has been chartered to Trasmediterránea, now part of Baleària. The vessel can be described as a Visentini Mark-I/Flex-Bow first-generation design and will be the newest Visentini version operated by DFDS. The 1999-built OPTIMA SEAWAYS represents the first generation of “Visentini vessels”.

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