by Przemysław Myszka

"…with great potential remaining," greeted us Henryk Tybuszewski, Hotel/F&B Manager at Unity Line (together with Polferries the founders of the POLSCA Baltic Ferries brand), when our other Przemek and I boarded Skania moored at the Westerplatte Ferry Terminal in Gdańsk's Inner Port on 3 August.

Built in 1995 for the Greeks from Superfast Ferries, she also plied the Mediterranean with Grimaldi Ferries before heading north to join Unity Line's fleet in 2008.

This summer, after a retouch, Skania has been entrusted, along with the more cargo-focused Copernicus, with serving a completely new crossing in the Baltic: between Gdańsk and Karlshamn.

Our region's ferry market is a fairly settled affair, so such a development doesn't come along all that often. We were invited to experience it first-hand. Download PDF