Zadar-Ancona ferry line officially canceled

It’s official. The city of Zadar is left without its international ferry line, Zadar-Ancona.

Jadrolinija did not include this line in the sailing schedule for 2022. Under the motto “connecting the Italian and Croatian coasts in 2022”, the state shipping passenger company announced sales only on the international lines Dubrovnik – Bari, from April to the end of November and Split – Ancona – which lasts all year round.

Back in 2000, Zadar, which was the first Croatian city to have an international shipping line maintained by an Italian shipping company, was reduced to a seasonal one by Jadrolinija’s systematic business policy. The Zadar ferry was built for the shortest overseas line during Božidar Kalmeta’s term in office as the Minister of Sea, Traffic and Infrastructure.

It seems that last year, Hvar was in greater need of this ferry, which brought thousands of tourists, than transporting Italians on vacation to the Zadar area in August. Zadar was left without a historical sea connection with its neighbors, with whom it also had a seaplane connection. Now that it has the largest and most modern passenger port in Gaženica, it has been left without its only and last sea connection with Italy.

Last year, the ferry from Zadar sailed to Gaženica and was returned to the Old Town, for which the director of Jadrolinija, David Sopta, and Paula Vidović, the head of the Agency for Coastal Liner Traffic gave their blessing in the middle of the summer season.

Source: morski.hr