FerriMaroc was a Moroccan ferry company which started services between

Nador Port The port of Nador is a commercial port on the Mediterranean servicing the Rif area of Northern Morocco. The port is officially in Beni Ensar and shares its piers and entrance with the port of the Spanish enclave Melilla. It is a semi-artificial ...

Morocco Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It has coastlines on the Mediterranean Sea to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and has land borders with Algeria to Algeria–Morocc ...

and the Port of Almeria in

Spain Spain, or the Kingdom of Spain, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe with territories in North Africa. Featuring the Punta de Tarifa, southernmost point of continental Europe, it is the largest country in Southern Eur ...

. Since 2010 the company has been part of the Spanish operator

Acciona Trasmediterránea Acciona, S.A. () is a Spanish multinational conglomerate dedicated to the development and management of infrastructure (construction, water, industrial and services) and renewable energy. The company, via subsidiary Acciona Energía, produces 21 ...

.The Ferry site o
FerriMaroc
visited: 1 August 2013

History

In 1994, the company was the launch-operator as ferry operator on the route to/from the Port of Nador in

Beni Ansar Beni Ansar (Arabic: بْني نصار) is a town in Nador Province, Oriental, Morocco, located 12 km (7½ miles) north of the city of Nador. It is bordered on the north by the Spanish city of Melilla. According to the 2014 census, Beni Ensa ...

near

Nador Nador () is a coastal city and provincial capital in the northeastern Rif region of Morocco with a population of about 158,202 (2024 census). The Nador Province has over 600,000 inhabitants. Nador is considered the second largest city in the Ori ...

in Morocco. Until that date one could only sail to the port of

Melilla Melilla (, ; ) is an autonomous city of Spain on the North African coast. It lies on the eastern side of the Cape Three Forks, bordering Morocco and facing the Mediterranean Sea. It has an area of . It was part of the Province of Málaga un ...

, which is in the same basin as the port of Nador.

Fleet

Since the acquisition of FerriMaroc by Acciona the company has no fleet of its own, but over the years a range of ships have sailed for the company: sometimes painted in FerriMaroc livery, sometimes in either neutral colors or using the livery of the operator from whom a ship was leased. The former MS ''Wisteria'' (former: ''Prinses Beatrix'') (which should not be confused with the ship of the same name from 1975) is sailing on the Nador-Almeria route until 15 September 2013 under the name M/G ''Vronskiy''. Before the long-term charter in 2008 this ship had been sailing on this route during the summer season and in the rest of the year

Transeuropa Ferries TransEuropa Ferries was a freight and passenger ferry company operating between Ramsgate, Kent, UK and Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium from 1998 to 2013, with three or more ships. The company suspended operations on 18 April 2013, and on 2 ...

operated it on their Oostend-Ramsgate route. Until 2013, the owner of the ship was Wisteria Hawthorn Shipping Co. but after Transeuropa became bankrupt in April 2013 it was sold to Nizhniy Shipping Ltd. who renamed it M/F ''Vronskiy'', though the existing lease/charther to Acciona was continued. The ''Vronskiy'' is being used on the route Algeciras - Tanger except during the high summer season when she will sail the Nador-Almeria routeThe Ferry Site o
M/F Vronskiy / Wisteria
visited: 1 August 2013

Past and present fleet

{, class="wikitable" width="90%" ;" ! Name , , Built , , Sailing for FerriMaroc , , Source , - , MV ''Scirocco'' , , 1974 , , 1993, 1994–2004 , , FerrySite M/F Sara 3 , - , MV ''Mistral''
aka MV ''Mistral Express'' , , 1981 , , 1997–2005, 2005 , , FerrySite M/F Mistral Express , - , MV ''Normandy'' , , 1981 , , 2008 (summer) , , FerrySite M/F Normandy , - , MV ''Isabella I'' , , 1981 , , 2013 (summer) , , FerrySite M/F Isabella I , - , MV ''Wisteria'' , , 1978 , , 2005 (summer), 2006 (summer), 2008–? , , FerrySite M/F Vronskiy
History Wisteria , - , MV ''Sherbatskiy'' , , 1980 , , 2012–? , , FerrySite M/F Sherbatskiy
visited: 1 August 2013

Resources and notes

Ferry companies of Morocco Ferry companies of Spain