The Caremar fleet...
As well as their distinctive red and white hydrofoils - "ALISCAFI" - Caremar also
have two classes of car/passenger ferries, each with space for some 60 vehicles:
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Traghetto or "NAVE" - 17 knots - 1050 passengers - 'Fauno', Naiade, Sibilla etc -
five very similar craft - all with two large, openair passenger areas.
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Traghetto Veloce or "TMV" - 25 knots - 520 passengers - 'Isola di Capri' & 'Isola di
Procida' - faster but only a small covered area, overlooking the loading ramp.
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Their website gives journey times to Ischia as: Hydrofoil 45 minutes, TMV 60 minutes,
Nave 90 minutes - but perhaps allow a little more, especially if stopping in at Procida!
For more details, but in Italian only, see:
http://www.caremar.it
18-APR-2003
Achernar, leaving Ischia Porto
25-APR-2003
.. and Monte Gargano arriving
14-OCT-2007
Achernar - Caremar's flagship hydrofoil
16-NOV-2009
Naiade, at the Porta di Massa quay in Naples harbour
16-SEP-2005
Passing Procida ...
...on one of the Fauno class ferries
07-SEP-2007
Sunset departure from Pozzuoli
03-FEB-2004
Caremar's 'Isola di Procida' manoeuvering
Classed by Caremar as a "Traghetto veloce", one of two fast,
1900 tonne, ferries capable of carrying 50+ vehicles and 500+
passengers, which entered service just before the Millennium.
