# 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 others use the ships as means of transportation.
Cruiseferry traffic is mainly concentrated in the seas of Northern Europe, especially the Baltic Sea and the North Sea. However, similar ships traffic across the English Channel as well as the Irish Sea, Mediterranean and even on the North Atlantic. Cruiseferries also operate from India, China and Australia.

## Baltic Sea cruiseferries

In the northern Baltic Sea, two major rival companies, Viking Line and Silja Line, have for decades competed on the routes between Turku and Helsinki in Finland and Sweden's capital Stockholm. Since the 1990s Tallink has also risen as a major company in the area, culminating with acquisition of Silja Line in 2006.

## List of largest cruiseferries of their time

The term "cruiseferry" did not come into use until the 1980s, although it has been retroactively applied to earlier ferries that have large cabin capabilities and public spaces in addition to their car- and passenger-carrying capacity.
| Year | Name | Tonnage$^1$ | Company | Traffic area | Flag | Notes |
| 1956 | MV Akdeniz | 8,809 GRT | Turkish Maritime Lines | Mediterranean Sea | Turkey | Built 1955 |
| 1975 | MS Belorussiya | 16,331 GRT | Black Sea Shipping Company | Black Sea | Soviet Union | Alongside five identical sisters built 1975–76 |
| 1976 | MS Napoléon [fr] | 20,079 GRT | SNCM | Mediterranean | France | Sent to Comarit in 2002. |
| 1977 | GTS Finnjet | 24,605 GRT | Enso-Gutzeit (Finnlines traffic) | Baltic Sea | Finland | Gas turbine-powered. Also fastest and longest |
| 1981 | MS Finlandia | 25,905 GRT | Effoa (Silja Line traffic) | Baltic Sea | Finland | Alongside identical sister MS Silvia Regina |
| 1982 | MS Scandinavia | 26,747 GT | Scandinavian World Cruises [da], later DFDS Seaways | New York—Bahamas Copenhagen—Oslo | Denmark | |
| 1985 | MS Svea | 33,829 GT | Johnson Line (Silja Line traffic) | Baltic Sea | Sweden | |
| 1985 | MS Mariella | 37,799 GT | SF Line (Viking Line traffic) | Baltic Sea | Finland | |
| 1989 | MS Athena | 40,012 GT | Rederi AB Slite (Viking Line traffic) | Baltic Sea | Sweden | |
| 1989 | MS Cinderella | 46,398 GT | SF Line (Viking Line traffic) | Baltic Sea | Finland | |
| 1990 | MS Silja Serenade | 58,376 GT | Silja Line | Baltic Sea | Finland | |
| 1991 | MS Silja Symphony | 58,377 GT | Silja Line | Baltic Sea | Sweden | |
| 1993 | MS Silja Europa | 59,914 GT | Tallink | Baltic Sea | Estonia | Ordered by Rederi AB Slite for Viking Line traffic |
| 2001 | MS Pride of Rotterdam | 59,925 GT | P&O Ferries | North Sea | Netherlands | |
| 2001 | MS Pride of Hull | 59,925 GT | P&O Ferries | North Sea | Netherlands | |
| 2004 | MS Color Fantasy | 75,027 GT | Color Line | Kattegat, Skagerrak | Norway | |
| 2007 | MS Color Magic | 75,100 GT | Color Line | Kattegat, Skagerrak | Norway | |
| $^1$May be specified in gross tonnage (GT) or gross register tons (GRT). |||||||

## List of cruiseferry operators
### Åland

* Eckerö Linjen
* Viking Line

### Australia

* Spirit of Tasmania

### Canada

* BC Ferries
* Marine Atlantic

### Croatia

* Jadrolinija

### Denmark

* DFDS Seaways

### Estonia

* Tallink

### Faroe Islands

* Smyril Line

### Finland

* Eckerö Line
* Silja Line (operated by Tallink)
* Viking Line
* Finnlines
* Wasa Line

### France

* Brittany Ferries
* Corsica Ferries - Sardinia Ferries
* Corsica Linea

### Greece

* ANEK Lines
* Blue Star Ferries
* Hellenic Seaways
* LANE Lines
* Levante Ferries
* Minoan Lines
* NEL Lines
* Superfast Ferries
* Ventouris Ferries

### Hong Kong

* Genting Hong Kong (defunct)

### Ireland

* Brittany Ferries
* DFDS Seaways
* Irish Ferries
* P&O Ferries
* Stena Line

### Italy

* Grandi Navi Veloci
* Grimaldi Lines
* Corsica Ferries
* Moby Lines
* Tirrenia di Navigazione

### Mexico

* Baja Ferries

### Norway

* Color Line
* Fjord Line

### Poland

* Polferries

### Spain

* Trasmediterranea
* Baleària

### Sweden

* Stena Line

### United Kingdom

* P&O Ferries
* NorthLink Ferries
* Condor Ferries
* Irish Ferries
* Stena Line
* Caledonian MacBrayne

### Japan

* Taiheiyō Ferry

## Gallery

* Pont-Aven, Brittany Ferries' flagship.
* M/S Silja Europa, the largest cruiseferry in the world 1993–2001.
* M/S Cinderella departing Helsinki.
* M/S Mega Regina at Ile Rousse
* M/S Color Fantasy, the largest cruiseferry in the world 2004–2007.
* MS Cruise Roma in Civitavecchia, Italy.
* M/S Danielle Casanova in Bastia, Corsica, France.
* M/S Pride of Rotterdam
* MS Galaxy in Helsinki West Harbour.
* MS Scandinavia in Gdańsk, Poland.
* M/S Pearl of Scandinavia in Oslo, Norway
* MV Cap Finistère of Brittany Ferries sailing from Portsmouth International Port, UK for Bilbao, Spain.