MS ''Romantika'' (Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian "Romantika" means "Romance" in English) is a

cruiseferry A cruiseferry is a ship that combines the features of a cruise ship and a Ro-Pax ferry. Many passengers travel with the ships for the cruise experience, staying only a few hours at the destination port or not leaving the ship at all, while oth ...

owned by the Estonian ferry company

Tallink Tallink () is an Estonian shipping company operating Baltic Sea cruiseferries and ropax ships from Estonia to Finland, Estonia to Sweden to Sweden and Finland to Sweden. It is the largest passenger and cargo shipping company in the Baltic Sea ...

. The ship is on charter to

Holland Norway Lines Holland Norway Lines is a Dutch startup ferry operator which operates a passenger and car ferry service between Eemshaven, The Netherlands and Kristiansand, Norway three times a week since 7 April 2022. The company has chartered the cruise ferry ...

on a route

Kristiansand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporati ...

Eemshaven Eemshaven (; en, Ems Harbor) is a seaport in the province of Groningen in the north of the Netherlands. In 1968, the Dutch government declared the Ems estuary ( Eemsmond) to be an economic key region. One of the key developments for the regi ...

. She was built in 2002 by Aker Finnyards, Rauma and she was the first ever newbuilding to be delivered to Tallink. Between 2002 and 2006 the ''Romantika'' was used on the

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city ...

–Tallinn route, until she was replaced by the new MS ''Galaxy''. After this she was transferred to the Tallinn– Stockholm route, sailing parallel with her sister MS ''Victoria I''. After the delivery of the ''Romantika'' was transferred to the Stockholm– Riga route in May 2009. Simultaneously with this she was changed from Estonian to Latvian registry. When the was chartered out from Tallink service in August 2014, the Romantika returned to the Tallinn–Mariehamn–Stockholm route. In December 2016, with the return of Silja Europa, Tallink reorganized the routes of their ferries and Romantika was transferred to the Stockholm - Riga route from December 12. From July to September 2021 Romantika was chartered to Morocco's

Tanger-Med Tanger Med (in Arabic: طنجة المتوسط ) is a Moroccan industrial port complex, located 45 km northeast of Tanger and opposite of Tarifa, Spain (15 km north) on the Strait of Gibraltar, with handling capacities of 9 million containers, on ...

Port Authority for services between Morocco and Sète in France. On 13 October 2021, she arrived in

Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ...

to provide accommodation for people attending the COP26 summit. Since April 2022, the Romantika is operated by

on a

routing on charter. This charter was announced on 1 November 2021, and is due to last three years with two one-year extensions.

References

External links

Tallink silja website for MS ''Romantika''

Romantika at marinetraffic.com
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