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Insotel sells one of the passenger fast ferries on the Ibiza-Formentera route to the public shipping company of Jordan, Egypt and Iraq.

The 'Aigües de Formentera' will set course for Jordan renamed 'HSC DAHAB' to operate in the Gulf of Aqaba, between Egypt and Jordan.
El 'Aigües de Formentera' luciendo la bandera jordana. (Foto: ferrybalear)
El 'Aigües de Formentera' luciendo la bandera jordana. (Foto: ferrybalear)

Formentera Lines, one of the shipping companies of Insotel Marine Group, together with Trasmapi and Menorca Lines, has sold the passenger fast ferry Aigües de Formentera to a Jordanian shipping company. The operation has been formalized a few days ago after months of negotiations. Thus, the vessel of 28 meters in length, capacity for 180 passengers and sailing at 30 knots, will set course in the coming days to Jordan renamed HSC DAHAB . The vessel will become part of the fleet of the shipping company Arab Bridge Maritime, specialized in operating between the port of Aqaba (Jordan) and Nuweibaa (Egypt). The operation was brought forward by ferrybalear and confirmed by La Voz de Ibiza by sources from the Pitiusa shipping company. The acquiring shipping company has a wide and varied fleet of ferries for the transport of passengers and goods. Arab Bridge Maritime is a shipping company founded by the states of Jordan, Egypt and Iraq. At the moment, it has only one ship with similar characteristics to the Aigües de Formentera to cover the 12-kilometer route between the ports of Aqaba (Jordan) and Taba (Egypt) in less than half an hour. Both ports are bordering Israel, in the Gulf of Aqaba. The Aigües de Formentera was acquired by Mediterránea Pitiusa, now Formentera Lines, in 2018. Sources from the shipping company have told La Voz de Ibiza that the sale will not affect the shipping company’s operations, as it did not enter service this summer. For this reason, it does not enter in the plans of the Sercomisa group to replace the sold ship. Last year the Ibizan shipping company sold the catamaran fast ferry that it had bought to operate between Algeciras and Ceuta and whose start-up depends on the litigation it has with the Port Authority of Algeciras. And, as company sources point out, “buying and selling ships is one of the legs of the shipping business”.

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