Draft:GNV Virgo

GNV Virgo in Barcelona
History
Name2025–present: GNV Virgo
Owner2025–present: Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV) (MSC Group)
Operator2025–present: Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV)
Port of registry
Route
Ordered2022
Builder
Yard number21110003
Laid down2024
Launched2024
Completed2025
Acquired2025
Maiden voyage2025
In service2025
Identification
Statusin service
General characteristics
Class & typeGNV Newbuild LNG Class / GSI Ro-Pax
Tonnage
  • 52,900 GT
  • 7,900 DWT
Length218.00 m (715 ft 3 in)
Beam29.60 m (97 ft 1 in)
Draught6.70 m (22 ft 0 in)
Depth10.00 m (32 ft 10 in)
Decks11
RampsBow and stern loading ramps
Installed power
  • 4 × dual-fuel (LNG / MGO) main engines (total 41,400 kW / 55,500 hp)
  • Cold-ironing (shore power connection) capability
Propulsion2 × controllable pitch propellers
Speed25.0 knots (46.3 km/h; 28.8 mph) (service)
Capacity
  • 1,785 passengers (420 cabins)
  • 3,000 lane metres for vehicles and freight
Crew50–60

GNV Virgo is a 218.00-metre LNG dual-fuel Ro-Pax cruise ferry owned and operated by Grandi Navi Veloci (GNV). Built in 2025 by Guangzhou Shipyard International in China, she is the third in a four-ship newbuilding series designed to modernize GNV's Mediterranean fleet. Equipped with cold-ironing shore power connection and LNG propulsion, she operates routes connecting mainland Italy with Sicily and Sardinia.

Service

The ferry, the third of a series of four sister units, of which it is the first to be fueled by LNG, was launched in December 2024 at the COMEC shipyards in Canton with the name of GNV Virgo, in conjunction with the laying of the keel of the twin GNV Aurora.[1][2] On 29 August 2025, 11 months ahead of schedule, it completed its sea trials[3][4]and, after having hoisted the Italian flag, on 22 October it was officially delivered to Grandi Navi Veloci.[2][5] Three days later it then set sail from China for Italy, where its christening was scheduled in Palermo on 11 December.[6] On 27 November, after just over a month of navigation, which saw the ferry circumnavigate the Cape of Good Hope, it finally arrived in Genoa.[7][8][9] On 11 December, as expected, it was christened in Palermo by Giuseppe Fiorello[10] and three days later it finally entered service on the connections between Liguria and Sicily, alongside its twin GNV Orion,[11] operating occasionally in the following months on the connections to Naples. On 15 April, four months after entering service, it was announced that the ferry will operate from 1 July on the connections between Genoa, Barcelona and Tangier Med, where it will operate alongside its twin GNV Aurora.[12][13][14][15]

Sister ships

References

  1. ↑ "PROSEGUE LA COSTRUZIONE DEI PRIMI TRAGHETTI DI GNV ALIMENTATI A GNL: VARO TECNICO PER GNV VIRGO E POSA DELLA CHIGLIA DI GNV AURORA". www.gnv.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  2. 1 2 "GNV Virgo: consegnato il primo traghetto GNL di lunga percorrenza della flotta GNV". www.gnv.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  3. ↑ "CONCLUSE LE PROVE IN MARE PER GNV VIRGO". www.gnv.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  4. ↑ "GNV Virgo completa con successo le prove in mare | Ship2Shore". www.ship2shore.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  5. ↑ Simone (2025-10-23). "Grandi Navi Veloci prende in consegna la nuova GNV Virgo". Pianeta Navi (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  6. ↑ ITALY, REDAZIONE SHIPPING (2025-09-29). "A giorni la consegna di Gnv Virgo che sarà battezzata nel porto di Palermo". Shipping Italy (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  7. ↑ ITALY, REDAZIONE SHIPPING (2025-11-27). "Arrivata a Genova la nuova Gnv Virgo, il 4 dicembre il primo bunkeraggio di Gnl". Shipping Italy (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  8. ↑ "Gnv Virgo a Genova: è il primo traghetto alimentato a GNL della flotta". mentelocale.it (in Italian). 2025-11-27. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  9. ↑ "In porto arriva Virgo, il primo traghetto di Gnv alimentato a GNL". Genova24.it (in Italian). 2025-11-27. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  10. ↑ ANSA, Agenzia (2025-12-12). "A Palermo cerimonia di battesimo per Gnv Virgo, prima nave alimentata a gas naturale - Notizie - Ansa.it". Agenzia ANSA (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  11. ↑ "M/F GNV Virgo — The Ferry Site". www.ferry-site.dk. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  12. ↑ Redazione (2026-04-15). "Gnv rafforza il network di rotte tra Italia e Marocco con le due nuove navi a Gnl". Shipmag (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  13. ↑ "Home". Informazioni Marittime (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  14. ↑ "Gnv consolida le rotte sul Marocco con Aurora e Virgo". TravelQuotidiano. 2026-04-15. Retrieved 2026-08-05.
  15. ↑ ITALY, REDAZIONE SHIPPING (2026-04-15). "I nuovi traghetti Gnv Aurora e Virgo dalla prossima estate impegnati sulla Genova-Barcellona-Tangeri". Shipping Italy (in Italian). Retrieved 2026-08-05.

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