Service
The catamaran, the first of a series of four sister units, was launched on 10 February 1996 at the Austal specialist shipyard in Fremantle with the name Delphin and delivered on 1 April to TT-Line, sailing the same day from Australia to Germany , where she arrived on 10 May. Three days later she entered service on the connections between Rostock and Trelleborg . On 17 January 2002 she was then renamed TT-Delphin [1] .
On 19 December 2004, with the cessation of service, the catamaran was laid up in Trelleborg and subsequently transferred on 11 January 2005 to Rostock and put up for sale. In May it was purchased by International Fast Ferries, to whom it was delivered on 18 May, changing its name to Almottahedah 1 in June . Finally, on 6 July the catamaran left Germany for the Red Sea , where it entered service in February 2006 on the Hurghada -Dubai routes under the flag of United Company for Marine. [2] However, in 2012, the catamaran was laid up along with the rest of the fleet in the Egyptian port due to the company's financial difficulties, remaining there until August 2017, when it was sold to Seajets [3] , from which it was temporarily renamed Blue Power and transferred to the Elefsina shipyards , where it underwent preparatory renovation works in view of its return to service. After the first technical stop, during which it was renamed Power Jet , the catamaran underwent two further stops, one in the Ampelakia shipyards [4] and one in those of Chalkida , both during 2019, finally taking service in 2020 on the connections between Heraklion , Santorini , Naxos , Paros and Mykonos [5] , to which a stopover in Ios was added the following year . In 2025 it was finally transferred to the connections between Piraeus , Milos , Santorini and Rethymno. [6]
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