The ''Jolly Blue'' is a cargo ship operated by

Messina Line Messina Line is the maritime shipping division of Ignazio Messina & C., one of Italy’s most historical shipping lines, operating 21 ships in between owned and chartered, and a total fleet of 41,000 TEU containers. Company overview Messina Line ...

between

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, Gioia, Tauro and

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

. It was previously operated by Toll Shipping and Brambles Shipping in Australia as the ''Victorian Reliance''.

History

The ''Jolly Blue'' was built by

Samsung Heavy Industries Samsung Heavy Industries Co., Ltd. (Korean: 삼성중공업) is one of the largest shipbuilders in the world and one of the "Big Three" shipbuilders of South Korea (including Hyundai and Daewoo). Geoje (in Gyeongsangnam-do) is one of the largest ...

as the ''Victorian Reliance'' for Brambles Shipping for use on

Bass Strait Bass Strait () is a strait separating the island state of Tasmania from the Australian mainland (more specifically the coast of Victoria, with the exception of the land border across Boundary Islet). The strait provides the most direct waterwa ...

services between

Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...

and

Burnie Burnie is a port city on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Australia. When founded in 1827, it was named Emu Bay, being renamed after William Burnie, a director of the Van Diemen's Land Company, in the early 1840s. , Burnie had an urban popul ...

, along with sister ship ''Tasmanian Achiever''. The ship was acquired by Toll Shipping with the Brambles shipping business in 2002. It was extended by 32 metres to 184 metres in Singapore in 2004. When

CMA CGM CMA CGM S.A. is a French container transportation and shipping company. It is the world’s 3rd largest container shipping company, using 257 shipping routes between 420 ports in 160 countries. Its headquarters are in Marseille, France The name ...

, parent company of

Australian National Line Australian National Line (ANL) was a coastal shipping line established in by the Government of Australia in 1956. It was sold in 1998 by the Howard government to CMA CGM. History Australian National Line was formed on 1 October 1956 as the ...

, withdrew the ''Bass Trader'' from the Melbourne to Bell Bay route in 2009, it entered into a

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acces ...

to transfer cargo to the Toll ships. As such it carried both Toll and ANL logos. In March 2019, it was replaced by the larger '' Victorian Reliance II''. It briefly returned to service while repairs were performed on ''Victorian Reliance II''. It was sold in 2020 to

, renamed ''Jolly Blue'' and began operating on the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

between

Tunis ''Tounsi'' french: Tunisois , population_note = , population_urban = , population_metro = 2658816 , population_density_km2 = , timezone1 = CET , utc_offset1 ...

, Gioia, Tauro and

.Messina welcomes Jolly Express' sister ship Jolly Blue
Ferry Shipping News 28 May 2020

References

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