Shipping Line Histories - Adriatica Line (Adriatica di Navigazione S.p.A.)

Adriatica Line

(Adriatica di Navigazione S.p.A.)

(Est. 1932)

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For over 60 years since its formation in 1932 the Adriatica Line provided maritime connections from Venice, Italy to Albania, Croatia, Greece, the Middle East and North Africa.

By 1937 the Italia Flotte Riunite concern had made rapid recovery and repaid the Government bonds which had supported it. It was then changed into a Limited Company under the name Italia Societa Anonima di Navigazione. Lloyd Triestino was incorporated into the new company. A new holding company (FINMARE) was formed and created four self contained shipping companies:

New Shipping Companies:	Headquarters:	Routes Served:	Former Shipping Companies:
ADRIATICA	Trieste, Italy	Adriatica, Fiumana and Lloyd Triestino local services	Adriatica, Fiumana, and Lloyd Triestino
TIRRENIA	Naples, Italy	Tyrrhenian Sea services	Adria, Tirrenia, and Sarda
LLOYD TRIESTINO	Genoa, Italy	Italy to Africa service, the Italy to Far East service and Italia Flotte Riuniti's non North and South American services	Lloyd Triestino, Libera Triestina, Veneziana and part of Italia Flotte Riuniti
ITALIA	Genoa, Italy	Italy to North America and South America services	Italia Flotte Riuniti, Cosulich, Libera Triestina and Veneziana

In the 1950s Adriatica introduced several new passenger liners including the Ausonia, San Giorgio, San Marco, etc.

Until 1994 Adriatica linked Italy and Egypt with an 8-day round trip calling at Venice, Bari, Piraeus, Heraklion (Crete) and Alexandria; then they worked mainly with Albania (from Bari to Durres), Croatia (Ancona - Split and Bari - Dubrovnik) and cargo services between the Italian mainland and Sicily (Genoa - Termini Imerese; Leghorn - Catania and Catania - Ravenna).

Later from 2005 Adriatica became merged with Tirrenia di Navigazione (Tirrenia Group) as their Adriatica Division. As a result it ceased to exist as an independent company. Tirrenia is a modern state-owned company and operates ferry services connecting the Italian mainland to Sardinia, Sicily, Tremiti Islands, Croatia and Albania.

Tirrenia Group is one of Europe’s most important Ship Owning Groups. In addition to the Tirrenia di Navigazione and its Adriatica Division, the Group includes companies such as CAREMAR (Campania Regionale Marittima), SAREMAR (Sardegna Regionale Marittima), SIREMAR (Sicilia Regionale Marittima), TOREMAR (Toscana Regionale Marittima).

Tirrenia di Navigazione S.p.A. (Tirrenia Group)
http://www.tirrenia.it/pages_en/

Campania Regionale Marittima S.p.A. (CAREMAR)
http://www.caremar.it/

Sardegna Regionale Marittima S.p.A. (SAREMAR)
http://www.saremar.it/

Sicilia Regionale Marittima S.p.A. (SIREMAR)
http://www.siremar.it/

Toscana Regionale Marittima S.p.A. (TOREMAR)
http://www.toremar.it/