Marfin stake carries ferry sector into new era

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News that the Marfin Investment Group has taken a majority stake in Attica Holdings, parent of Superfast Ferries and Blue Star Ferries, stimulates yet more interest and reflection on the future shapeand composition of the European ferry industry.

Time was when Europe’s life-expired passenger ferries would gravitate from north to south, ending up in Greek waters for a further 25 years, but then in the mid-1990s Panagopoulos heralded a revolution that involved large, fast ships replacing...


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