El Salam Maritime Transport is an Egyptian

ferry A ferry is a boat or ship that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A small passenger ferry with multiple stops, like those in Venice, Italy, is sometimes referred to as a water taxi or water bus ...

operator that operates a fleet of fifteen vessels on

Red Sea The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and th ...

routes between

port A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers. Although usually situated on a sea coast or estuary, ports can also be found far inland, such as Hamburg, Manch ...

s in Egypt,

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and

Jordan Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...

. The company transports over one million passengers a year and is the largest private shipping company in the Middle East. El Salam gained media attention in 2006 after the sank on 2 February 2006 in the Red Sea en route from

Duba, Saudi Arabia Duba () is a city in the Tabuk Province of Saudi Arabia. The city is located on the northern Red Sea coast. Local citizens describe it as ''The Pearl of the Red Sea''. As of 2022, it had a population of 39,543. History The first reference to Dub ...

, to

Safaga Port Safaga, also known as Safaga ( ', ), is a town in Egypt, on the coast of the Red Sea, located south of Hurghada. This small port is also a tourist area that consists of several bungalows and rest houses. Having numerous phosphate mines, i ...

in southern Egypt, with the loss of over 1000 lives. This ship, among others in the same class, was supposed to end its career in 2010, but after the ''Boccaccio 98'' disaster all three remaining vessels were sold to an Indian scrapyard (one other had burned out and sank in 2002).

Routes operated

Suez Suez (, , , ) is a Port#Seaport, seaport city with a population of about 800,000 in north-eastern Egypt, located on the north coast of the Gulf of Suez on the Red Sea, near the southern terminus of the Suez Canal. It is the capital and largest c ...

, Egypt –

Jeddah Jeddah ( ), alternatively transliterated as Jedda, Jiddah or Jidda ( ; , ), is a List of governorates of Saudi Arabia, governorate and the largest city in Mecca Province, Saudi Arabia, and the country's second largest city after Riyadh, located ...

, Saudi Arabia *

, Egypt – Duba and Jeddah, both in Saudi Arabia *

Nuweiba Nuweiba (also spelled: Nueiba; , ) is a coastal town in the eastern part of Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, located on the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba. History Historically, it is in the Asian part of Egypt, and the area was inhabited by two different a ...

, Egypt –

Aqaba Aqaba ( , ; , ) is the only coastal city in Jordan and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba. Situated in southernmost Jordan, Aqaba is the administrative center of the Aqaba Governorate. The city had a population of 148, ...

, Jordan *

Hurghada Hurghada (; ', ) is a coastal city that serves as the largest city and capital of the Red Sea Governorate of Egypt. Hurghada has grown from a small fishing village to one of the largest resort destinations along the Red Sea coast, stretching c ...

, Egypt – Duba, Saudi Arabia

References

External links

El Salam Maritime Transport official website

El Salam Group

International Maritime Organization
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