malta area served malta channel adriatic sea services passenger transportation subsidiaries venezia lines website www.virtuferries.com virtu ferries is a maltese company founded in 1988 that operates ferry services from malta to sicily by catamaran . it has a subsidiary venezia lines which runs a six month seasonal service between venice and various adriatic ports and between bari and durr s. jean de la valette virtu ferries was founded in 1988 . it carries over 250 000 passengers and 25 000 vehicles annually . in 2010 the jean de la valette replaced the maria dolores as the flagship and it carries about 800 passengers and 200 vehicles . it operates the marsa pozzallo route across the malta channel almost daily all year round . virtu ferries currently operates two catamarans apart from those for venezia lines . all vessels fly the maltese flag . ship length passengers jean de la valette 106.5 m 800 maria dolores 68.4 m 600 the maria dolores is chartered to the moroccan company intershipping and is in service between tarifa and tangiers . venezia lines edit san frangisk venezia lines is a subsidiary which operates various services in the adriatic sea . it was founded in 2001 and ran its first service in may 2003 . it runs a six month seasonal service between april and october on the following routes in the north adriatic venice mali lo inj venice pore venice pula venice rabac venice rovinj in the south adriatic it operates one route between april and september and between december and january bari durr s venezia lines currently operates four catamarans and like the ones for virtu ferries they fly the maltese flag . ship length passengers san fran isk 35.25 m 317 san wann 51m 427 san marco 37.04 m 266 san pawl 35.25 m 317 references edit virtu ferries venezia lines wikimedia commons has media related to virtu ferries . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title virtu ferries & oldid 730053619 categories ferry companies of italyferry companies of maltacatamaranshidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidata 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 deutschitaliano edit links this page was last modified on 16 july 2016 at 12 17 . 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