PANAGIA TRYPITI (ΠΑΝΑΓΙΑ ΤΡΥΠΗΤΗ)

-Panagia Trypiti NE

Built in 1973 (age 52). Registered in Piraeus. Current line: None (laid-up in Aegion)

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The landing craft PANAGIA TRYPITI was built in 1973 in Greece, as the VELOS III for the Greek company Agios Fanourios Ferries. She was deployed on the Perama-Salamina line, where she remained for 30 years. In 2003 she moved to the Megara-Salamina line. In 2008, after 35 years of service under Agios Fanourios Ferries, she was sold to the Maltese company Cassar Marine Services and she was renamed CMS HORSE. She was used as a Ro-Ro carrier transporting heavy cargoes (most notably lorries and cranes) around Valletta, while occasionally operating on the Valletta-Tripoli line until 2011. In 2019 she was sold to the Greek company Panagia Trypiti NE, thus returning to Greece for a second stint. She was renamed PANAGIA TRYPITI and she was intended to operate on the Aegion-Agios Nikolaos Phokidos line on the Corinthian Gulf (which would have seen the service being reactivated for the first time since 2011), but instead she was laid-up in Aegion in 2020. Later in that same year she was deployed on the Megara-Salamina line, but she was then deployed on the Lefkada-Skorpios line on the Ionian Sea, where she transported supplies to the island of Skorpios as part of the latter's redevelopment project. In 2024 she returned to the Megara-Salamina line, but after the summer ended she was once again laid-up in Aegion.

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