
Overview
MS Kydon Palace is a Greek Ro-Pax high speed ferry, built in 2001 at the Sestri Ponente shipyards by Fincantieri as Festos Palace for Minoan Lines' overnight services between Piraeus and Crete. Initially she ran to Heraklion. In 2020 she was transferred to the Piraeus–Chania route and renamed Kydon Palace She is a sister ship of Cruise Bonaria. She can reach speeds up to 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph). The ship's facilities include restaurants, bars and cabins.
Intelligence
Verified reported figure. Band is peer-relative, not official IMO CII.
Compliance
Emergency, lighting,batteries and switches; Fixed fire extinguishing installation; Emergency, lighting,batteries and switches; Emergency, lighting,batteries and switches
Port-State-Control detentions.
Composite Risk
Multiple adverse factors, or a hard ship-specific signal, lift this hull above the fleet norm.
A coverage-weighted blend of the single component we could read for this hull — the weights renormalise over only the components present, so a thin read is never inflated and a hull is never credited a “safe 0” for a signal it has no row for. This headline is flagged low-confidence (a thin or structural-only read) and should not be treated as a verdict. Higher means riskier. Derived in-house from government-open port-State-control, flag, sanctions and our own vessel data; weight it by the coverage above.
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