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Buquebus New Logo
Los Cipreses S.A., doing business as Buquebus, is a Uruguayan company that operates ferry services from Buenos Aires to Montevideo and Colonia del Sacramento, Colonia. The company also operates a fleet of coaches to Termas del Arapey, Termas del Dayman, Salto, Uruguay, Carmelo, Uruguay, Carmelo, Atlántida, Punta del Este, La Paloma, La Pedrera and Punta del Diablo from Montevideo, Colonia del Sacramento, Colonia and Piriapolis. The company also operated BQB Líneas Aéreas. Fleet Buquebus operates a fleet of nine High-speed craft, fast ferries. The Buquebus website also lists HSC Catalonia, which has been chartered to P&O Ferries as HSC Express for several years. A new ferry named ''Francisco'', after Pope Francis, was completed by Incat in 2013. Capable of 107 km/h (58 knots) it will be one of the fastest ferries in the world, and will be used for the Buenos Aires to Montevideo route. It has a capacity of 1,024 passengers and crew and 150 cars. See also BQB Línea ...
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Buquebus New Logo
Los Cipreses S.A., doing business as Buquebus, is a Uruguayan company that operates ferry services from Buenos Aires to Montevideo and Colonia del Sacramento, Colonia. The company also operates a fleet of coaches to Termas del Arapey, Termas del Dayman, Salto, Uruguay, Carmelo, Uruguay, Carmelo, Atlántida, Punta del Este, La Paloma, La Pedrera and Punta del Diablo from Montevideo, Colonia del Sacramento, Colonia and Piriapolis. The company also operated BQB Líneas Aéreas. Fleet Buquebus operates a fleet of nine High-speed craft, fast ferries. The Buquebus website also lists HSC Catalonia, which has been chartered to P&O Ferries as HSC Express for several years. A new ferry named ''Francisco'', after Pope Francis, was completed by Incat in 2013. Capable of 107 km/h (58 knots) it will be one of the fastest ferries in the world, and will be used for the Buenos Aires to Montevideo route. It has a capacity of 1,024 passengers and crew and 150 cars. See also BQB Línea ...
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Ferry Terminal In Colonia (5459543681)
A ferry is a ship, watercraft or amphibious vehicle used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi. Ferries form a part of the public transport systems of many waterside cities and islands, allowing direct transit between points at a capital cost much lower than bridges or tunnels. Ship connections of much larger distances (such as over long distances in water bodies like the Mediterranean Sea) may also be called ferry services, and many carry vehicles. History In ancient times The profession of the ferryman is embodied in Greek mythology in Charon, the boatman who transported souls across the River Styx to the Underworld. Speculation that a pair of oxen propelled a ship having a water wheel can be found in 4th century Roman literature "''Anonymus De Rebus Bellicis''". Though impractical, there is no reason why it could not work ...
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Water Transport In Uruguay
Water (chemical formula ) is an inorganic, transparent, tasteless, odorless, and nearly colorless chemical substance, which is the main constituent of Earth's hydrosphere and the fluids of all known living organisms (in which it acts as a solvent). It is vital for all known forms of life, despite not providing food, energy or organic micronutrients. Its chemical formula, H2O, indicates that each of its molecules contains one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms, connected by covalent bonds. The hydrogen atoms are attached to the oxygen atom at an angle of 104.45°. "Water" is also the name of the liquid state of H2O at standard temperature and pressure. A number of natural states of water exist. It forms precipitation in the form of rain and aerosols in the form of fog. Clouds consist of suspended droplets of water and ice, its solid state. When finely divided, crystalline ice may precipitate in the form of snow. The gaseous state of water is steam or water vapor. Water covers a ...
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Transport Companies Of Uruguay
Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land ( rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, and space. The field can be divided into infrastructure, vehicles, and operations. Transport enables human trade, which is essential for the development of civilizations. Transport infrastructure consists of both fixed installations, including roads, railways, airways, waterways, canals, and pipelines, and terminals such as airports, railway stations, bus stations, warehouses, trucking terminals, refueling depots (including fueling docks and fuel stations), and seaports. Terminals may be used both for interchange of passengers and cargo and for maintenance. Means of transport are any of the different kinds of transport facilities used to carry people or cargo. They may include vehicles, riding animals, and pack anim ...
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The Mercury (Hobart)
''The'' ''Mercury'' is a daily newspaper, published in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, by Davies Brothers Pty Ltd (DBL), a subsidiary of News Corp Australia, itself a subsidiary of News Corp. The weekend issues of the paper are called ''Mercury on Saturday '' and ''Sunday Tasmanian''. The current editor of ''The'' ''Mercury'' is Craig Warhurst. History The newspaper was started on 5 July 1854 by George Auber Jones and John Davies. Two months subsequently (13 September 1854) John Davies became the sole owner. It was then published twice weekly and known as the ''Hobarton Mercury''. It rapidly expanded, absorbing its rivals, and became a daily newspaper in 1858 under the lengthy title ''The Hobart Town Daily Mercury''. In 1860 the masthead was reduced to ''The Mercury'' and in 2006 it was further shortened to simply ''Mercury''. With the imminent demise of the ( Launceston) ''Daily Telegraph'', ''The Mercury'', from March 1928, used the opportunity to increase their penetration th ...
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Pope Francis
Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. Francis is the first pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus, the first from the Americas, the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since Gregory III, a Syrian who reigned in the 8th century. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Bergoglio worked for a time as a bouncer and a janitor as a young man before training to be a chemist and working as a technician in a food science laboratory. After recovering from a severe illness, he was inspired to join the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1958. He was ordained a Catholic priest in 1969, and from 1973 to 1979 was the Jesuit provincial superior in Argentina. He became the archbishop of Buenos Aires in 1998 and was created a cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Pa ...
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HSC Express
HSC ''Superexpress'' is a wave piercing catamaran built by Incat, owned by Golden Star Ferries and chartered to Viking Line. During her delivery voyage on 9 June 1998, as ''Catalonia'', she set the record for the fastest Atlantic Eastbound Record, previously held by another Incat craft '' Hoverspeed Great Britain''. She made the run from Manhattan, US to Tarifa, Spain in 3 days 7 hours 54 minutes, traveling at an average speed of . During that same voyage, the ship became the first passenger ship to cover or more in one 24-hour period. In covering in one day, beating the . record set by SS ''United States'' in 1952. Six weeks later, sister craft HSC ''Fjord Cat'' took the record. As of January 2016 P&O Ferries announced that they would end the Larne-Troon service provided by HSC Express, this has ended 25 years of fastcraft service between Northern Ireland and Scotland. Mediterranean service Following her record-breaking Atlantic Ocean crossing, the vessel changed name t ...
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P&O Ferries
P&O Ferries is a British shipping company that operates ferry, ferries from United Kingdom to Ireland, and to Continental Europe (France, Belgium and the Netherlands). The company was created in 2002 through mergers and acquisitions within P&O (company), P&O. It has been owned by Dubai-based DP World since 2019. History 1960s – 1989 P&O (company), P&O originally established ferry services in the United Kingdom in the late 1960s in the North Sea and the English Channel. In the late 1970s P&O was affected by a reduction in traditional shipping activities which saw the sale of a number of its businesses and assets. This continued into 1985 with the sale of its cross-channel ferry activities to European Ferries, which at the time consisted of services on the Port of Dover, Dover–Boulogne and Port of Southampton, Southampton–Le Havre routes. In January the following year, P&O purchased a 50.01% interest in European Financial Holdings Ltd, which held 20.8% of shares in Europ ...
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HSC Catalonia
HSC ''Superexpress'' is a wave piercing catamaran built by Incat, owned by Golden Star Ferries and chartered to Viking Line. During her delivery voyage on 9 June 1998, as ''Catalonia'', she set the record for the fastest Atlantic Eastbound Record, previously held by another Incat craft ''Hoverspeed Great Britain''. She made the run from Manhattan, US to Tarifa, Spain in 3 days 7 hours 54 minutes, traveling at an average speed of . During that same voyage, the ship became the first passenger ship to cover or more in one 24-hour period. In covering in one day, beating the . record set by SS ''United States'' in 1952. Six weeks later, sister craft HSC ''Fjord Cat'' took the record. As of January 2016 P&O Ferries announced that they would end the Larne-Troon service provided by HSC Express, this has ended 25 years of fastcraft service between Northern Ireland and Scotland. Mediterranean service Following her record-breaking Atlantic Ocean crossing, the vessel changed name to ...
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Incat
Incat Tasmania is an Australian manufacturer of high-speed craft (HSC) catamaran ferries. Its greatest success has been with large, sea going passenger and vehicle ferries, but it has also built military transports and since 2015 it has built smaller river and bay ferries. Based in Derwent Park, Tasmania, Derwent Park, a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, it was founded by Bob Clifford. The company builds vessels using aluminium construction, wave-piercing and water-jet technology. Vessels have been constructed up to 130 metres in length with a size of 13,000 Gross tonnage, gross tons and with cruising speeds of up to 58 knots (107 km/h). Company history The company began in the 1970s as the Sullivans Cove Ferry Company in suburban Hobart and built four small ferries before ''International Catamarans'' was formed in 1977 by a partnership between founder Bob Clifford and marine architect Philip Hercus. This partnership created plans for what was probably the first lar ...
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HSC Francisco
HSC ''Francisco'' is a high-speed catamaran built by Incat in Hobart, Tasmania. Powered by liquefied natural gas, she is currently the fastest passenger ship in service, reaching a speed of . Propulsion is by two GE LM2500 gas turbines, coupled with two Wärtsilä water-jets. The catamaran is owned and operated by Argentine-Uruguayan ferry company Buquebus. ''Francisco'' plies the sea route between Buenos Aires and Montevideo. HSC ''Francisco'' is named after Pope Francis Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. .... See also * List of places and things named after Pope Francis References 2012 ships Incat high-speed craft Individual catamarans Ferries Ships of Uruguay {{Ship-stub ...
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HSC Silvia Ana L
HSC ''Silvia Ana L'' (marketed as ''Silvia Ana'') was a high-speed ferry owned and operated by Color Line on a route connecting Kristiansand, Norway to Hirtshals, Denmark. She was built in 1996 by Bazans Fernando Shipyard, Cadiz, Spain for the Uruguay-based Buquebus. She is the second largest one-fuselage high speed ferry in the world.Color Line: F/F ''Silvia Ana''
, retrieved 10. 10. 2007
It is now part of Buquebus.


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The ''Silvia Ana L'' was delivered in December 1996 to Los Cipreres for traffic between