Hellenic Seaways is a Greek

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 shipping company operating passenger and freight ferry services in the Aegean

Aegean Sea

The Aegean Sea[p] is an elongated embayment of the Mediterranean Sea located between the southern Balkan and Anatolian peninsulas, i.e., between the mainlands of Greece and Turkey. In the north, it is connected to the Marmara Sea and Black Sea by the Dardanelles and Bosporus...

 and Adriatic

Adriatic Sea

The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges...

 Seas. The company is owned by Cyprus

Cyprus

Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country, member of the European Union, in the Eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey, west of Syria and north of Egypt. It is the third largest island in the Mediterranean Sea.The earliest known human activity on the...

 based Sea Star Capital Plc.

History

Hellenic Seaways was created in 2005 following the consolidation of Minoan Flying Dolphins and its subsidiaries Hellas Flying Dolphins, Hellas Ferries Saronikos Ferries and Sporades Ferries.

It is the biggest Greek shipping Company, which operates 29 vessels,11 conventional, 15 high-speed and 3 RO-RO, servicing more than 35 ports in the Cyclades

Cyclades

The Cyclades is a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and a former administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The name refers to the islands around the sacred island of Delos...

, North East Aegean, South East Aegean, Crete

Crete

Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...

, Argosaronikos

Argo-Saronic Gulf

Argo-Saronic Gulf is a term sometimes used to combine the adjacent Saronic Gulf and Argolic Gulf of Greece. It contains the Argo-Saronic Islands....

 and Sporades

Sporades

The Sporades are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, in the Aegean Sea. It consists of 24 islands, of which four are permanently inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos and Skyros.-Administration:...

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In August 2009 Hellenic Seaways purchased the single-ship, budget cruise line easyCruise

EasyCruise

EasyCruise is an enterprise of Greek ferry operator Hellenic Seaways, sold to them in August 2009 for £9 million by founder and Cypriot/British business man, Stelios Haji-Ioannou. EasyCruise launched their first cruise ship EasyCruiseOne in 2005...

 from founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou , born 14 February 1967) is a British entrepreneur of Greek Cypriot origin, currently a resident of Monaco. He is the scion of a wealthy, shipowning family, but is best known for setting up easyJet, a highly successful and profitable low-cost airline, with start-up funds...

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In January 2011 Minoan Lines

Minoan Lines

Minoan Lines is one of the dominant passenger ferry companies in Greece, sailing between Piraeus and Crete and in the Adriatic Sea, between Patras and various Italian ports. The company was founded in May 1972...

 (Heraklion) cancelled the sale of it´s 33,35% stake in Hellenic Seaways to ANEK and try to find a new buyer for it.

Fleet

Hellenic Seaways operate a large fleet of high speed craft , conventional ferries and RO/RO freight ferries.

Ship	Flag	Type	Built	IMO	Callsign	Pax	Cars	Notes
Highspeed 4		High speed catamaran	2000	9216140		1045	188
Highspeed 5		High speed catamaran	2005	9329095	SYDM	809	154
Highspeed 6 HSC Highspeed 6 Highspeed 6 is a 96m high speed catamaran operated by Hellenic Seaways.-History:Highspeed 6 was built in 2000 at the Incat Yards in Tasmania, Australia as Milenium. She entered service with Trasmediterránea in June 2000 between Barcelona and Palma...		High speed catamaran	2000	9221346	SVAF6	900	265
Hellenic Wind		High speed monohull Monohull rightA monohull is a type of boat having only one hull, unlike multihulled boats which can have two or more individual hulls connected to one another.-Fundamental concept:...	1997	9141845	9HA2162	800	175	On charter to Atlantico Line
Flyingcat 1		Catamaran	1990	8916865	SW6920	256	0
Flyingcat 2		Catamaran	1998	9185683	SX6710	516	0
Flyingcat 3		Catamaran	1998	9177442	SX6671	375	0
Flyingcat 4		Catamaran	1999	9206748	SX7749	450	0
Flyingcat 5		Passenger catamaran	1996	9134543	SY5393	342	0
Flyingcat 6		Passenger catamaran	1997	9164299	SY5390	342	0
Flying Dolphin XV		Hydrofoil Hydrofoil A hydrofoil is a foil which operates in water. They are similar in appearance and purpose to airfoils.Hydrofoils can be artificial, such as the rudder or keel on a boat, the diving planes on a submarine, a surfboard fin, or occur naturally, as with fish fins, the flippers of aquatic mammals, the...	1980	8132043	SV6436	132	0
Flying Dolphin XVII		Hydrofoil	1984	8331467	SV9699	145	0
Flying Dolphin XVIII		Hydrofoil	1984	8331479	SV9700	145	0
Flying Dolphin XIX		Hydrofoil	1980	8623365	SW2784	145	0
Flying Dolphin XXIX		Hydrofoil	1991	8875700	SW9853	145	0
Ariadne		Ferry	1996	9135262	SVST	700	560	On charter to Algérie Ferries Algérie Ferries Algérie Ferries is an Algerian shipping company. The company operate passenger and freight services between Algeria, France and Spain.-Routes:Algérie Ferries operate eight routes across the Mediterranean Sea.*Oran - Alicante*Oran - Marseille...
Nissos Chios Nissos Chios Nissos Chios is a highspeed ro/pax ferry of Hellenic Seaways, built, along with its sister ship Nissos Mykonos, at Elefsis Shipyards. The name of the ship means in Greek 'Island of Chios', which is one of the islands of North Aegean. It is the newest greek ship with frequent travels....		Ferry	2007	9215555	SXXL	1800	418
Nissos Mykonos		Ferry	2005	9208679	SYJZ	1800	418
Express Pegasus		Ferry	1977	7521651	SYDV	1300	203
Express Santorini		Ferry	1974	7330040	SXQR	1400	240	On charter to Atlantico Line
Express Skiathos		Ferry	1996	9064803	SWHM	1410	250
Nefeli		Ferry	1990	8911140	SZKE	1300	110
Artemis		Ferry	1997	8966951	SWZE	1250	85	On charter to ANEK Lines ANEK Lines ANEK Lines is a shipping company in Greece. It was founded in 1967 by numerous shareholders who were inhabitants of Crete. It operates passenger ferries, mainly on Piraeus-Crete and Adriatic Sea lines....
Posidon Hellas		Ferry	1998	8966963	SYJY	1300	120
Apollon Hellas		Ferry	1990	8807105	SWFP	1500	100
Nissos Rodos		Ferry	1987	8704406	SYQJ	850	472	Out of service
Hellenic Master		RO/RO Freight	1979	7718527	SZIK	12	140
Hellenic Trader		RO/RO Freight	1975	7419456	SXDN	12	100
Hellenic Sailor		RO/RO Freight	1978	7718515	SXEQ	12	140

Current Routes

• Piraeus – Syros
  Syros
  Syros , or Siros or Syra is a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea. It is located south-east of Athens. The area of the island is . The largest towns are Ermoupoli, Ano Syros, and Vari. Ermoupoli is the capital of the island and the Cyclades...
  
   – Mykonos
  Mykonos
  Mykonos is a Greek island, part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. The island spans an area of and rises to an elevation of at its highest point. There are 9,320 inhabitants most of whom live in the largest town, Mykonos, which lies on the west coast. The town is also...
  
   – Fournoi
  Fournoi
  Fournoi is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean, between Samos and Ikaria. It belongs to Samos prefecture.Fournoi is part of a group of three islands, the others being Thymaina and Agios Minas. The only town of Fournoi is Fournoi Korseon. The island has an area of 31 km² and the latest estimation...
  
   – Ikaria – Samos
  Samoš
  Samoš is a village in Serbia. It is situated in the Kovačica municipality, in the South Banat District, Vojvodina province. The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population numbering 1,247 people .-See also:...
  
    (Nissos Mykonos)
• Piraeus – Chios
  Chios
  Chios is the fifth largest of the Greek islands, situated in the Aegean Sea, seven kilometres off the Asia Minor coast. The island is separated from Turkey by the Chios Strait. The island is noted for its strong merchant shipping community, its unique mastic gum and its medieval villages...
  
   – Mytilini  (Nissos Chios)
• Volos
  Volos
  Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...
  
   – Skiathos
  Skiathos
  Skiathos is a small Greek island in the northwest Aegean Sea. Skiathos is the westernmost island in the Northern Sporades group, east of the Pelion peninsula in Magnesia on the mainland, and west of the island of Skopelos.-Geography:...
  
   – Glossa – Skopelos
  Skopelos
  Skopelos , ancient Peparethos or Peparethus , is a Greek island in the western Aegean Sea. Skopelos is one of several islands which comprise the Northern Sporades island group. The island is located east of mainland Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea and is part of the Thessaly Periphery....
  
   – Alonissos
  Alonissos
  Alonnisos , also transliterated as Alonissos or Alonisos, is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea. After Skiathos and Skopelos it is the third member of the Northern Sporades. It is 3 km E of the island of Skopelos...
  
   (Express Skiathos, Flyingcat 6)
• Piraeus
  Piraeus
  Piraeus is a city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens Urban Area, 12 km southwest from its city center , and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf....
  
   – Aegina
  Aegina
  Aegina is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island. During ancient times, Aegina was a rival to Athens, the great sea power of the era.-Municipality:The municipality...
  
   – Methana
  Methana
  Methana is a town and a former municipality on the Peloponnese peninsula, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Troizinia, of which it is a municipal unit....
  
   – Poros
  Poros
  Poros is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, at a distance about 58 km south from Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a 200-metre wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas on the mainland across the strait. Its surface is about and it has 4,117...
  
   (Poseidon Hellas, Nefeli)
• Piraeus
  Piraeus
  Piraeus is a city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens Urban Area, 12 km southwest from its city center , and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf....
  
   – Aegina
  Aegina
  Aegina is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island. During ancient times, Aegina was a rival to Athens, the great sea power of the era.-Municipality:The municipality...
  
   – Agistri  (Flying Dolphins,Poseidon Hellas )
• Piraeus – Poros
  Poros
  Poros is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, at a distance about 58 km south from Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a 200-metre wide sea channel, with the town of Galatas on the mainland across the strait. Its surface is about and it has 4,117...
  
   – Hydra – Ermioni
  Ermioni
  Ermioni is a small town and a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Ermionida, of which it is a municipal unit. It is a popular tourist resort. It is on a very small out-cropping of the land facing the island of...
  
   – Spetses
  Spetses
  Spetses is an island and a municipality in the Islands regional unit, Attica, Greece. It is sometimes included as one of the Saronic Islands. Until 1948, it was part of the old prefecture of Argolidocorinthia, which is now split into Argolis and Corinthia...
  
   – Porto Heli (Flying dolphins)
• Corinth
  Corinth
  Corinth is a city and former municipality in Corinthia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Corinth, of which it is the seat and a municipal unit...
  
   – Venice
  Venice
  Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...
  
   (Hellenic Sailor)

Past Routes

Hellenic Seaways covered itineraries to Chania

Chania

Chaniá , , also transliterated Chania, Hania, and Xania, older form Chanea and Venetian Canea, Ottoman Turkish خانيه Hanya) is the second largest city of Crete and the capital of the Chania peripheral unit...

 in Crete

Crete

Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...

 island in the summer periods from 2004-2006 with the highspeed vessel "Highspeed 4" in 4 hours and 30 minutes, and in summer 2007 with the passenger ferry "Ariadne". The company also launched routes from Piraeus

Piraeus

Piraeus is a city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens Urban Area, 12 km southwest from its city center , and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf....

 to Rethymno

Rethymno

Rethymno is a city of approximately 40,000 people in Greece, the capital of Rethymno peripheral unit in the island of Crete. It was built in antiquity , even though was never a competitive Minoan centre...

 port, in Crete

Crete

Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the thirteen administrative regions of Greece. It forms a significant part of the economy and cultural heritage of Greece while retaining its own local cultural traits...

 with Highspeed 5 in summer 2008. In the summer season of 2010 Hellenic Seaways

Hellenic Seaways

Hellenic Seaways is a Greek shipping company operating passenger and freight ferry services in the Aegean and Adriatic Seas. The company is owned by Cyprus based Sea Star Capital Plc.-History:...

 launched for the first time itineraries from Piraeus

Piraeus

Piraeus is a city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens Urban Area, 12 km southwest from its city center , and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf....

 to Dodecanese islands, Kos

Kos

Kos or Cos is a Greek island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of Gökova/Cos. It measures by , and is from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Kos peripheral unit, which is...

 and Rhodes

Rhodes

Rhodes is an island in Greece, located in the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the largest of the Dodecanese islands in terms of both land area and population, with a population of 117,007, and also the island group's historical capital. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within...

, (through Paros

Paros

Paros is an island of Greece in the central Aegean Sea. One of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about wide. It lies approximately south-east of Piraeus. The Municipality of Paros includes numerous uninhabited offshore islets...

) with the passenger ferry "Nissos Rodos" but after an unsuccessful period they cancelled them.

Marketing Campaign

• Summer 2006: "Πάμε Κυκλάδες", "Πάμε Χανιά", "Πάμε Χίο και Μυτιλήνη" (Let's Go)
• Summer 2007: "Πτήσεις για... Κυκλάδες, Αργοσαρωνικό, Σποράδες, Χίο & Μυτιλήνη" (Flights to...)
• Summer 2008: "Πιο γρήγορα από ποτέ" (Faster Than Ever)
• Summer 2009-present: "Πάμε μαζί" (Let's go together)

Awards

In 2007 Hellenic Seaways was awarded by "Lloyd's List Greek Shipping Awards" as "The Best Passenger Line of the Year 2007" and their, then new-building vessel, Nissos Chios, was awarded with the prize of "The Best Ship of the Year 2007".

Former ships

The following list includes former ships of the current company and of predecessors Minoan Flying Dophins (MFD) and its subsidiaries.

• Highspeed 1 (IMO: 9125932), now Orange 2
• Highspeed 2 (IMO: 9216169), now Bissat
• Highspeed 3 (IMO: 9216171), now Boraq
• Hellenic Carrier
• Express Apollon (IMO: 7235915)
• Express Poseidon (IMO: 7302885)
• Express Adonis
• Express Samina
  Express Samina
  MS Express Samina was a RORO passenger ferry built as MS Corse In 1966 at Chantiers de l'Atlantique, St Nazaire, France for Compagnie Generale Transatlantique along with her sister ship MS Comte De Nice. In 1969 she was transferred to Compagnie Generale Transmediterraneenne...
  
  (IMO: 6613548)
• Express Aphrodite
• Express Hermes
• Express Aris
• Express Limnos
• Express Danae
• Express Athina
• Express Anemos
• Express Milos
• Express Naias
• Express Olympia
• Panagia Ekatodapiliani
• Eutichia
• Saronikos
• Limnos
• Faidra
• Papadiamantis
• Makedon
• Erotokritos (IMO: 7394747)
• Aias
• Aegina
• Ellas
• Afaia
• Apostolos
• Flying dolphin I
• Flying dolphin II
• Flying dolphin III
• Flying dolphin IV (IMO: 7933385)
• Flying dolphin V
• Flying dolphin VI
• Flying dolphin VII
• Flying dolphin VIII
• Flying dolphin IX
• Flying dolphin X (IMO: 7939004)
• Flying dolphin XI
• Flying dolphin XII
• Flying dolphin XIV
• Flying dolphin XVI
• Flying dolphin XX
• Flying dolphin XXI
• Flying dolphin XXII
• Flying dolphin XXIII
• Flying dolphin XXV
• Flying dolphin XXVI
• Flying dolphin XXVII
• Flying dolphin XXVIII
• Mega dolphin XXX
• Mega dolphin XXXI
• Mega dolphin XXXII
• Star Trailer
• Sea Trailer