On Saturday 25 March, it is the turn of the Blue Star 2. The client for the design and construction of this very luxurious vessel is the Greek shipping company Strintzis Lines Shipping S.A., on whose behalf the yard also built the vessel's sister ship, the Blue Star 1. The ceremony will be held on the slipway of the large construction hall of the shipyard in Krimpen aan den IJssel. The contract for the Blue Star 2 was signed on 22 January 1999. The slipway assembly started in August 1999.
Delivery is planned for next summer.
Under the flag of Blue Star Ferries, Strintzis Lines Shipping will deploy the Blue Star 2 on the route Brindisi and Ancona in Italy and Patras in Greece. The luxury accommodations consist of various restaurants, lounges, a casino, two cinemas, boutiques, shops and a large sun deck with swimming pool. According to GN's commercial manager Wilco van der Linden, with the construction of the Blue Star 1 and 2, the yard has succeeded in producing the ultimate in performance. Rarely have two vessels of this complexity left the same slipway, so shortly after one another. A period of only fourteen weeks separates the two launchings, and halfway through this year, the two vessels will be handed over, with an interval of only nine weeks.