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Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
103,529
Summed over 3 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Minoan Lines is one of the largest passenger ferry companies in Europe, and 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 by Georgios Vardiampasis and Georgios Kegiadakis, according to former Minoan Lines president Konstantinos Klironomos. Since 2008 Grimaldi's Compagnia di Navigazione SpA owns and controls 95.9 of the stock of Minoan Lines.
The company's logo is derived from The Lily Prince fresco at Knossos.
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Parent company
Grimaldi Group
Owned by
Fleet on record
Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to Minoan Lines. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 3 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6608098 | Ferry | Panama | 1966 | 12,394 | 1,910 | 141.2 m | Lindholmen Shipyard |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 3 vessels attributed to it here, Minoan Lines is the 262nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
Greece is the country of registration for 15 commercial operators in this directory, among which Minoan Lines ranks 2nd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 21 vessels here. See every operator registered in Greece.
Founded in 1972, Minoan Lines is 54 years old. This directory holds 117 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
Same country
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q1759533, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Minoan Lines on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.