Polferries
Polish ferry operator
Polferries is the largest Polish ferry operator. The Polish Baltic Shipping Company (Polska Żegluga Bałtycka - PŻB) was established on 31 January 1976 as a state-owned shipping company. Under the operating name Polferries, the company runs ferry routes across the Baltic Sea between Poland and Scandinavia.
In 1996 Polferries approved quality assurance system the International Safety Management Code (ISM). In May 1997 the company was recognised as meeting the requirements of the Quality Management Certificate ISO 9002. It became legally recognised as a corporate body in 1992.
Until 2001, Polferries had owned two ferry terminals in Poland, the Ferry Terminal in Gdańsk and the Ferry Terminal in Świnoujście. Today, the company runs the Ferry Terminal in Gdańsk.
01Fleet
| Ship | Built | In service from | Gross
Tonage |
Passengers | Load Line | Knots | Route | Flag and
home port |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 27
July 2024 |
41.878 | 976 | Ro-Ro line
2875 m
|
23.80 | Świnoujście- | Limassol, Cyprus | |
| 2011 | 14
September 2018 |
27.744 | 827 | Ro-Ro line
1575 m
|
21.00 | Gdańsk- | Nassau, Bahamas | |
| 2002 | 12
September 2017 |
25.028 | 653 | 2196 m | 22.00 | Chartered to
Nouris El Bahar Ferries (With polish bridge and engine room crew) |
Nassau, Bahamas | |
| 1996 | 15
June 2015 |
29.940 | 1000 | 2620 m | 21.00 | Świnoujście- Ystad | Nassau, Bahamas | |
| 1980 | 15
February 2005 |
25.318 | 1000 | 1490 m | 18.00 | 2005-2015 | Nassau, Bahamas |
02Future Fleet and Future Arrangements
1 ferry ordered in Gdańsk Remontowa Shipyard
03Former fleet
- MV Baltivia (built in Sweden, 1981) - 2007-2024 - sold to Georgian operator.
- HSC Boomerang (built in Australia, 1997), 1997-2001, now Tallink AutoExpress Two with Conferry.
- MF Drottningen (built in Sweden in 1968), 1975-1976, scrapped in China in 2005.
- MF Gute (built in Sweden, 1979), 2000, laid up.
- MF Kahleberg (built in Germany, 1983), 2003-2004, now RG 1 with RG Line, scrapped.
- MF Lancut (built in Germany, 1967), 1985-1994, scrapped in India in 2003.
- MF Nieborow (built in Germany, 1973), 1988-2002, now Sveti Stefan II with Montenegro Lines, scrapped.
- MF Parsęta (built in Germany, 1970), 1991-1997, scrapped.
- MF Silesia (built in Poland, 1979), 1979-2005, now Galaxy with European Seaways.
- MF Wawel (built in Germany, 1965), 1973-1988, scrapped in Turkey in 2004.
- MS Pomerania (built in Poland, 1978), 1978-2010, later Dalmatia with Blue Line International, scrapped in India in 2014.
- MS Rogalin (built in France, 1972), 1978-1987, 1989-1991, 1992-2003, scrapped in India in 2004.
Sources and credits
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Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- MF Varsovia - Ystad-2024.jpg by Foto: Jonn Leffmann, CC BY 4.0
- Nova Star - IMO 9462067.jpg by Rudolf H. Boettcher, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Cracovia Polferries 2022.jpg by An-d, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Świnoujście – MF Mazovia - 11.06.2025 19-56-53.jpg by Photographs by Radosław Drożdżewski (User:Zwiadowca21), CC BY-SA 4.0
- Brosen Wawel.jpg by Brosen, CC BY-SA 3.0
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