The Princess Anastasia cruising ferry of St. Peter Line will be operating twice a week between Saint Petersburg and Stockholm. The service is scheduled to be launched in April next year. According to the service operator St. Peter Line, the Princess Anastasia can accommodate 2,215 passengers and 580 vehicles. There are 789 cabins of different classes and price ranges. Journey time is about 25 hours.
The ferry will be calling at Tallinn port over the weekend on her way back from Stockholm.
The new ferry line launch will enable St. Petersburg to have next year additional 400,000 tourists, St.Peter Line said.
The vessel was built at the Turku-based shipyard (Finland) in 1986 for Slite Viking Line as the cruise ferry Olympia, at the time - one of the largest and most comfortable vessels of the class in the world. Until recently, the ship named Pride of Bilbao was operated by P & O European Ferries (UK) on Portsmouth – Bilbao line. Before the new service launch the vessel will be upgraded and repaired.
This April St. Peter Line resumed St. Petersburg - Helsinki ferry service to carry passengers by the Princess Maria. As of September 3rd, the ferry had transported 100,000 passengers. Opening the service, the operator announced plans to carry 500,000 passengers in 2010.
The ferry will be calling at Tallinn port over the weekend on her way back from Stockholm.
The new ferry line launch will enable St. Petersburg to have next year additional 400,000 tourists, St.Peter Line said.
The vessel was built at the Turku-based shipyard (Finland) in 1986 for Slite Viking Line as the cruise ferry Olympia, at the time - one of the largest and most comfortable vessels of the class in the world. Until recently, the ship named Pride of Bilbao was operated by P & O European Ferries (UK) on Portsmouth – Bilbao line. Before the new service launch the vessel will be upgraded and repaired.
This April St. Peter Line resumed St. Petersburg - Helsinki ferry service to carry passengers by the Princess Maria. As of September 3rd, the ferry had transported 100,000 passengers. Opening the service, the operator announced plans to carry 500,000 passengers in 2010.