Daniel berrebi biography

Baja Ferries

Mexican ferry company

Baja Ferries (also known as: bajaferries S.A de C.V) is a Mexican shipping company dedicated to ferry transportation across the Sea of Cortes. Its headquarters are located in La Paz, Baja California Sur.

The company was founded in by Mariano Ruano Boza to transport passengers between the Mexican States of Sinaloa and Baja California Sur.

The company included the subsidiary dedicated to trucking transportation company Transportadora GEOS.

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History

The origins of Baja Ferries date back to when the French shipowner Daniel Berrebi obtained&#;import/export contracts for&#;Mexico from&#;Alstom.&#;In following the entry into force of the&#;North American Free Trade&#;Agreement (NAFTA), Berrebi opened a first freight line between Mexico and the&#;US&#;initially then on the Western Mexican Coast from In the shipowner began its passenger transport activities by commissioning a&#;high-speed ship&#;between&#;La Paz&#;and Topolobampo, Sinaloa.

In , Berrebi chartered a mixed vessel with a rolling capacity of 2, linear meters from the Italian shipyardVisentini.&#;Becoming the&#;California Star, it inaugurates the activities of the company Baja Ferries, created for the occasion.&#;The following year a second ship joined the fleet, the car ferry&#;Coromuel, renamed&#;Sinaloa Star.

In , Baja Ferries bought the car ferry&#;Victory&#;from the Italian company&#;Grandi Navi Veloci&#;and put it into service under the name&#;Chihuahua Star, replacing the&#;Sinaloa Star, which was leaving the fleet.

In , a new mixed vessel was integrated into the fleet, the&#;Monte Cinto, bought from&#;SNCM, which took the name of&#;Mazatlan Star.&#;His arrival allows the transfer in of the&#;Chihuahua Star&#;within the company America Cruise Ferries, another company owned by Daniel Berrebi operating lines in the&#;Caribbean&#;between&#;Puerto Rico&#;and the&#;Dominican Republic.

Daniel berrebi biography death In the shipowner began its passenger transport activities by commissioning a high-speed ship between La Paz and Topolobampo , Sinaloa. This article needs additional citations for verification. World Europe Powerboat. Scrapped in

A new Ro-Ro carrier was put into service in , the ex-Strada Corsa, bought in&#;Italy&#;after the bankruptcy of its owner and put into service under the name&#;La Paz Star.

In November , the company embarked on the race to take over SNCM, placed in receivership by the Commercial Court of&#;Marseille.&#;Based on a plan to reduce the company's scope of activity to&#;Marseille-Corsica&#;lines alone, subsidized under the public service delegation, and the development of lines with the&#;Maghreb, with in particular the opening of a line to&#;Morocco, its offer will be modified several times as the deadline is pushed back.[2]&#;Baja Ferries will in particular try to form a common front with the&#;STEF&#;Group before the latter decides to withdraw.[3]&#;Its offer will finally be discarded in favor of that of the Corsican transporter Rocca.[4]

It is for this reason that, from January , Baja Ferries joined the consortium of Corsican companies Corsica Maritima, also a candidate for the takeover of SNCM, and participated in the launch of the company&#;Corsica Linea&#;by chartering the ro-ro ship to it.&#;Stena Carrier, intended to compete with the new company succeeding SNCM between Marseille and Corsica.&#;However, the two companies merging in April , Baja Ferries will withdraw from the project.&#;The&#;Stena Carrier&#;will join the company's fleet in under the name of&#;México Star, as will another chartered ro-ro to serve&#;Ajaccio.

which would eventually join Baja Ferries in as&#;Cabo Star&#;before being chartered overseas.

That same year, his ship, the former&#;Chihuahua Star, chartered by ACF under the name&#;Caribbean Fantasy, suffered a fire in the Caribbean in August.[5]&#;The extent of the damage led to her being sold for scrap the following year.

This vessel was then replaced within the fleet by the&#;Baja Star, a metre car ferry purchased from the Chinese company Rizhao Ferries.&#;First placed on the charter market, she joined the lines of Baja Ferries at the end of after the sale of the&#;California Star.

Fleet

Old Fleet

Ship Flag Type In Service Period tonnageLength Width Passengers Vehicles Knots Status Image
California StarMixed vessel 25, UMS m m 75 22,5 knots Sold to Adria Ferries, currently in service in the Mediterranean under name of AF Claudia.

Caribbean FantasyFerry 27, UMS m 27 m 23,5 knots Service from to and sold to America Cruise Ferries.

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Caught fire in , Scrapped in Aliağa in

La Paz StarRo-Ro 16, UMS m m 12 m linéaires 17 knots Resold to Fabrilo Holdings, finally Scrapped in
Mazatlan StarMixed vessel 14, UMS m m 35 18 knots Sold to Chilean company Navimag renamed Eden.

Scrapped in

Sinaloa StarFerry 7, UMS m m 16 knots Scrapped in Alang.

Current Fleet

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