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Type
  
Private

Area served
  
Greek Islands, Italy

Revenue
  
704.3 million EUR (2014)

Founded
  
2005

Operating income
  
50.1 million EUR (2014)

Parent organization
  
Minoan Lines

Predecessor
  
Hellas Ferries

Products
  
Shipping

Headquarters
  
Piraeus

Number of employees
  
1,008

Total assets
  
895.7 million EUR (2014)

Hellenic Seaways

Key people
  
Konstantinos Klironomos (Chairman) Antonios Agapitos (CEO)

Services
  
Passenger transportation Freight transportation

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Hellenic Seaways is a Greek shipping company operating passenger and freight ferry services in the Aegean and Adriatic Seas. The company is owned by Minoan Lines, which currently controls the majority stake.

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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 21 vessels, 9 conventional, and 12 high-speed, servicing more than 35 ports in the Cyclades, North East Aegean, South East Aegean, Crete, Argosaronikos and Sporades.

In August 2009 Hellenic Seaways purchased the single-ship, budget cruise line easyCruise from founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou.

In January 2011 Minoan Lines (Heraklion) cancelled the sale of its 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

  • Piraeus - Paros - Naxos - Ios - Santorini (Highspeed 4)
  • Heraklion - Santorini - Ios - Paros - Mykonos (Highspeed 6)
  • Rafina - Tinos - Mykonos (Hellenic Highspeed)
  • Piraeus - Syros - Mykonos - Ikaria - Samos -Chios - Mytilini - Lesvos - Kavala (Nissos Mykonos)
  • Piraeus – Chios – Mytilini (Ariadne)
  • Piraeus - Paros - Naxos - Patmos – Agios Kirykos, Ikaria – Fournoi – Vathy, Samos – Chios – Mytilini – Limnos – Kavala (Nissos Rodos)
  • Piraeus - Mesta, Chios – Mytilini – Limnos – Thessaloniki (Nissos Samos)
  • Lavrio - Agios Efstratios – Limnos – Kavala (Express Pegasus)
  • Piraeus – Aegina – Methana – Poros (Apollon Hellas)
  • Piraeus – Aegina – Agistri (Flying Dolphin XVII, Flying Dolphin XVIII, Flying Dolphin XXIX)
  • Piraeus – Poros – Hydra – Ermioni – Spetses – Porto Heli (Flying Cat 6, Flying Dolphin XVII, Flying Dolphin XVIII, Flying Dolphin XXIX)
  • Volos – Skiathos – Glossa – Skopelos – Alonissos (Express Skiathos, Flying Cat 5)
  • Lavrio- Kea - Kythnos - Andros - Tinos - Syros - Paros - Naxos - Ios - Sikinos - Folegandros - Kimolos - Milos - Kimolos - Sifnos - Serifos (Artemis)
  • Syros -Paros - Serifos - Sifnos - Kimolos -Milos (Artemis)

    • Terminated Destinations

  • Chania
  • Rethymno
  • Irakleia
  • Schoinousa
  • Kos
  • Rhodes
  • Thessaloniki
  • Corinth
  • Venice

    • Terminated Routes

    Hellenic Seaways covered itineraries to Chania in Crete 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 to Rethymno port, in Crete with "Highspeed 5" in summer 2008. In the summer season of 2010 Hellenic Seaways launched for the first time itineraries from Piraeus to Dodecanese islands, Kos and Rhodes, (through Paros) with the passenger ferry "Nissos Rodos" but after an unsuccessful period they were cancelled.

    Marketing Campaigns

  • 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 2009–2012: "Πάμε μαζί" (Let's go together)
  • Summer 2013–present:"Πάμε Αιγαίο" (Let's travel in the Aegean Sea)

    • Bonus & Miles

    Bonus & Miles is the frequent program of Hellenic Seaways. For every 1000 miles a member collects, the company refunds them with 10% of the total price of the tickets they have purchased. Upon completion of 3000 miles, the members are upgraded to the "Gold Member" status and enjoy additional privileges on board.

    Saronikos Joint Venture

    In late 2013 Hellenic Seaways formed a joint venture with Saronic Gulf rivals Nova Ferries and 2way Ferries. Created to offer better schedules and better prices for the consumers, the joint venture marketed as Saronic Ferries uses four vessels and covers a total of four destinations.

    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". In 2014 Hellenic Seaways was again awarded by "Lloyd's List Greek Shipping Awards" as "The Best Passenger Line of the Year 2014".

    Former ships

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

    References

    Hellenic Seaways Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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