Attica Group, Greece’s biggest passenger shipping company, has increased the size of its owned fleet with a pair of vintage sister ships.
The 30,000-gt Kissamos (built 1992) and Kydon (built 1990) were acquired for a combined price of €8.9m ($9.7m), the Athens-listed company said in a stock exchange filing.
Both were built at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and had been employed with Attica on a bareboat charter with purchase options attached.
Their previous owner is not known.
The Kydon and Kissamos are legacy vessels previously in the fleet of Anek Lines, a debt-laden Greek ferry company with which Attica merged in 2023.
Attica has been owning or operating about 40 passenger ships since.
It has concentrated on its main, Greek business after selling to Stena Line its 49% stake in Moroccan ferry company Africa Morocco Link in April.
The €49m deal, which fetched a €24m net profit for Attica, included the sale to Stena Line of the 16,071-gt Morocco Star (built 1980) and 2,926-gt Highspeed 3 (built 2000).
In another Nordic deal unveiled last month, Attica announced it had agreed to take on long-term charters at least two ropax newbuildings ordered by Stena RoRo in China.
Attica holds an option to purchase the 240-metre ropaxes, as well as to charter two additional ones.
Attica’s increased focus on its home market includes a foray into onshore tourism.
Since entering the hospitality business in December 2021, the group has purchased three hotels — all on Aegean islands serviced by its ships.
Attica is 86.7%-owned by entrepreneur Mubashir Mukadam’s Strix Holdings.
