greece area served aegean sea services passenger transportation freight transportation parent attica holdings website www.bluestarferries.com blue star ferries is a brand name of blue star maritime s.a. the company operates ferry services from the greek mainland to the aegean islands . blue star ferries is the biggest ferry company in greece desserving more than 20 destinations . its fleet is composed by modern ferries going from 23 to 30 knots . contents 1 history 2 fleet 2.1 routes 3 media 4 references history edit blue star ferries was found in 1965 as strintzis lines by the strintzis family from lixouri kefalonia . the company was rebranded as blue star ferries in 2000 following attica enterprises acquisition of a 48 % stake in the company . 1 blue star ferries is a sister company of superfast ferries as both are part of the attica group and have had partnership in some routes such as rosyth to zeebrugge and presently piraeus heraklion . in 2006 blue star maritime s.a. purchased the dodecanese ferry company dane sea lines . blue star ferries built two ferry type ships at daewoo shipyards on korea . the first ferry named blue star delos was delivered in first 10 days of october 2011 and the second blue star patmos in july 2012 . blue star delos is currently on the route piraeus paros naxos ios thira and blue star patmos on the route piraeus chios mytilini lesvos 2 fleet edit blue star ferries currently operates a fleet of 8 ships . 3 ship flag built entered service gross tonnage length width passengers vehicles knots photos blue star 1 2000 2000 29.415 gt 176 m 26 m 1.890 641 28 blue star 2 2000 2000 29.415 gt 176 m 26 m 1.854 641 28 blue horizon 1987 2000 27.320 gt 187 m 27 m 1.497 780 23 blue galaxy 1992 2015 29.992 gt 192 m 27 m 1 500 703 25 blue star paros 2002 2002 10.438 gt 124 m 19 m 1.474 230 24 blue star naxos 2002 2002 10.438 gt 124 m 19 m 1.474 230 24 blue star delos 2011 2011 17.550 gt 145 m 24 m 2.400 430 26 blue star patmos 2012 2012 17.550 gt 145 m 24 m 2.000 430 26 routes edit piraeus crete piraeus heraklion blue horizon piraeus chania blue galaxy piraeus cyclades piraeus syros tinos mykonos blue star paros piraeus syros paros naxos ios santorini anafi blue star delos piraeus syros paros naxos santorini & amorgos irakleia schoinoussa koufonissia donousa astypalaia blue star naxos piraeus dodecanese piraeus santorini kos rhodes karpathos blue star 2 piraeus kalymnos kos rhodes & astypalaia patmos leipsoi leros nisyros symi tilos kastellorizo blue star patmos piraeus north aegean piraeus psara oinousses chios lesvos blue star 1 media edit one of blue star ferries boats took the role of princess myrto in the greek tv show literally translated i ll see you on the ferry broadcast by alpha tv a greek channel in 2000 till 2002 . the majority of the filming for this series was on the boat itself except for on location filming of the characters on holiday or on leave . this is still being broadcast in certain greek speaking countries like cyprus . references edit attica enterprises annual report 2000 http www.theseanation.gr news ferries blue star ithaki.htm http www.bluestarferries.com site content.asp sel 641 & loc 2 blue star patmos greek blue star delos greek retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title blue star ferries & oldid 740764833 categories ferry companies of greececompanies based in athenscompanies established in 2000hidden categories articles with greek language external links navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutsch nederlands edit links this page was last modified on 23 september 2016 at 04 21 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view