Golden Star Ferries

The 11 passengers, were arrested and detained at the Tinou port authority after the heated incident that preceded yesterday’s incident between them on the passenger ferry “Super Express” that was sailing to Rafina.

The crew of a ferry rescued a 40-year-old shipwrecked man on a lifeboat in the sea area between Tinos and Mykonos on Monday.

According to reports, the rescue was carried out by the Super Express ferry, which was on a route from the island of Mykonos to the port of Rafina.

The 40-year-old was the sole occupant of a private boat that sunk. 

A total of 18 ferries were scheduled to depart from the port of Piraeus on full capacity for the Aegean islands and 32 for the islands of the Argosaronic Gulf on Friday, as the last of Easter travelers depart from Athens. 

Another 14 ferries are scheduled to depart from the port of Rafina and 10 from the port of Lavrio for the Aegean islands.

Today, 18 routes are scheduled from Piraeus, 32 to the islands of the Argosaronic Gulf, 14 from Rafina, and 10 from Lavrio

The ferries from Piraeus and Rafina will reach capacity of up to 80% during the Holy Week

The three destinations are Mykonos, Crete, and Santorini

The Stefanou brothers, who control Golden Star, are in discussions with Marios Iliopoulos of SeaJets, according to sources who are aware of the developments, in order to transfer fast ferries SUPERRUNNER (it operated on the Heraklion-Santorini route), SUPERSPEED and SUPERCAT and the conventional SUPERFERRY II, which plied the route from Piraeus to Cyclades.

Large passenger shipping companies no longer dominate the Greek market. According to a study by XRTC Business Consultants, the big players, Attica Group (which operates Blue Star, Super Fast and Hellenic Seaways), ANEK and Minoan Lines, accounted for 38 percent of sea passenger traffic in 2018, down from 57 percent in 2014.

A passenger ferry with 317 people onboard returned safely to the port of Rafina, east of Athens, on Wednesday after an engine failure.
The Super Runner, which also had cars and trucks on board, was traveling to the island of Santorini via the islands of Tinos, Mykonos and Paros.

The owner of a ferry company has been on hunger strike this week, waiting outside Shipping Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis's office for a license to serve a route linking the Attica port of Rafina with Crete.