Skip ship, 700 passengers stranded at Brindisi. A Olbia ferry … – Rai News

Skip ship, 700 passengers stranded at Brindisi. A Olbia ferry … – Rai News

Holidays in Greece faded for 700 tourists: the ferry to Igoumenitsa Larks is stopped due to a fault and has not arrived at Brindisi. Many, after a night at the terminal, they gave up and went home. A Olbia fear among the passengers of the “Bithia” stuck at the port in a sandbar

August 9, 2014 Misadventures on the ferries, the holidays have started badly for many Italians. A Olbia over two thousand passengers were stranded for three hours inside the ship of Tirrenia, ended up on a sandbar. While in Brindisi 700 tourists have been unable to leave for Greece to a technical problem at the ferry.

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holidays in Greece are blended to 700 passengers, all Italians, who had booked a ticket for the ferry company Larks Egnatia Seaways and that should have set off yesterday night at 20 The ship that was supposed to lead them in Corfu is no match for a fault, it stops at Igoumenitsa. Blocked the harbor, amid protests, with no chance of leaving: the ferries operating on the same route were full, so impossible to embark passengers in other ferries. Many have slept in the terminal, others have decided to find accommodation at their own expense. And this morning the majority has decided to give up the holiday and go home, have announced that they will resort to legal action to obtain reimbursement of the ticket acquistatoe expenses incurred. At the port there are still 250 passengers waiting to leave. Could be guaranteed a connection extraordinary, this afternoon, using a ferry which normally is for Albania .

A Olbia ship stuck on a sandbar
Less dramatic situation in Sardinia, where the ship Bithia, Tirrenia, coming from Genoa, with 2,140 passengers on board has ended in front of the port of Olbia on a sandbar during mooring and remained aground. Only after three hours the passengers, who have not undergone other problems, they were able to land. The ship, which was to start at 9 am, on the other hand has left the port at 12:30, after the security checks of the hull carrying 400 passengers bound for Genoa. The MV Bithia game last night from Genoa, was supposed to come in the port of Olbia at 8, but according to the reconstruction provided by the Harbour, during the mooring ran aground on a sandbar, not marked on nautical charts, jamming: to free the ship were needed to rescue a patrol boat and two harbor tugs.