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Update 17.04.2021: PRIDE OF YORK left Rotterdam at around 10am (UK time) this morning with an indicated destination of Napoli (Naples).Update 16.04.2021: Grandi Navi Veloci has now confirmed the sale of PRIDE OF YORK in a press release. She will sail, as expected, between Naples and Palermo as GNV ARIES. According to the release the ship will be refurbished before being introduced to service. P&O Ferries has still not commented publicly on the sale.
A new crew is already onboard PRIDE OF YORK preparing the ship to set sail for a new life in the Mediterranean. As we reported previously, she is to be renamed GNV ARIES. The P&O email states that she will sail under the Cypriot flag.
Is this information incorrect ?
Not far off, Pride of Bruges is already in Naples and renamed GNV Antares, the pride of York will indeed be renamed GNV Aries.
You’ll in the future be able to see them sailing along the Italian coast sailing from Naples to Palermo.
I used to ship from Genoa to Palermo and Palermo back to Livorno regularly in the 80s and 90s and it was a 24 hour crossing.