Los Cipreses S.A., doing business as Buquebus, is a

Uruguayan Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast; while bordering ...

company that operates ferry services from

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

to Montevideo and Colonia. The company also operates a fleet of coaches to Termas del Arapey, Termas del Dayman,

Salto, Uruguay Salto () is the capital city of the Salto Department in northwestern Uruguay. As of the 2011 census it had a population of 104,028 and is the third most populated city in Uruguay, after Montevideo and Ciudad de la Costa. Location and geography T ...

, Carmelo, Atlántida,

Punta del Este Punta del Este () is a seaside city and peninsula on the Atlantic Coast in the Maldonado Department of southeastern Uruguay. Starting as a small town, Punta del Este later became internationally known as a resort for the Latin and North American j ...

, La Paloma, La Pedrera and Punta del Diablo from Montevideo, Colonia and Piriapolis. The company also operated BQB Líneas Aéreas.

Fleet

Buquebus operates a fleet of nine fast ferries. The Buquebus website also lists HSC Catalonia, which has been chartered to P&O Ferries as

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 Rec ...

for several years. A new ferry named ''Francisco'', 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. ...

, was completed by

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 s ...

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

to Montevideo route. It has a capacity of 1,024 passengers and crew and 150 cars.

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