AERIA (ΑΕΡΙΑ)
-Thassos Ferries
ex-ORION III (ΩΡΙΩΝ ΙΙΙ) for Farmakoris-Villiotis NE (2018-2023)
Built in 2018 (age 7). Registered in Piraeus. Current line: None (under refit in Thassos)
The double-ended ferry AERIA was ordered in 2017, as the ORION III by the Greek company Farmakoris-Villiotis NE, right after her sister ship and former fleetmate, namely the ORION II, was sold to the Mexican company Ultramar during her own construction. She was completed in 2018 in Greece, and she was inserted on the Perama-Salamina line. In 2019 she was deployed on the Megara-Salamina line, before heading back to the Perama-Salamina line in 2020. In 2021 she was deployed on the Rion-Antirrion line, while in 2022 she returned to the Perama-Salamina line. In late 2023, the ORION III was sold to Thassos Ferries and she was renamed AERIA. She began service on the Keramoti-Thassos line in 2024.
PHOTOS (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023):
The ORION III resting in Salamina (8/2020).
The ORION III resting in Salamina (8/2020).
The ORION III resting in Salamina (8/2020).
The ORION III docked in the port of Rion (9/2021).
The ORION III having just arrived in the port of Antirrion (9/2021).
The ORION III having just arrived in the port of Antirrion (9/2021).
The ORION III having just arrived in the port of Antirrion (9/2021).
The ORION III docked in the port of Antirrion (9/2021).
The ORION III docked in the port of Antirrion (9/2021).
The ORION III docked in the port of Antirrion (9/2021).
The ORION III seen in Salamina, after having made her return to the Perama-Salamina line after one season on the Rion-Antirrion line (8/2022).
The ORION III docked in the port of Paloukia in Salamina (8/2022).
The ORION III seen in Salamina (10/2022).
The ORION III seen resting in Salamina (10/2022).
The ORION III seen resting in Salamina (10/2022).
The ORION III seen docked in Perama, in what proved to be my final picture of the ship under that name and under Farmakoris-Villiotis NE, as she was sold in late 2023 to Thassos Ferries, for whom she began service as the AERIA (1/2023).