Global InformationMV Superfast IX information
 MV Superfast IX arriving to Tallinn
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| Builder | HDW, Kiel, Germany |
| Yard number | 359[1] |
| Launched | 18 November 2000[3] |
| Christened | 11 January 2002[3] |
| Acquired | 8 January 2002[3] |
| Maiden voyage | 10 January 2002[3] |
| In service | 10 January 2002[3] |
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| Status | Docked in Paljassaare awaiting orders |
| General characteristics (as built)[3] | |
| Type | Ropax ferry |
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| Length | 203.30 m (667 ft) |
| Beam | 25.00 m (82 ft) |
| Draught | 6.68 m (21 ft 11 in) |
| Depth | 9.1 m (29 ft 10 in) |
| Decks | 10[5] |
| Ice class | 1 A Super[5] |
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MV Superfast IX is a fast ro-pax ferry owned by the Estonian ferry company Tallink, and was under charter to Canadian operator Marine Atlantic until March 2024. In February 2015, Marine Atlantic announced that the lease on the vessel had been renewed until November 2017 for a cost of Can$40 million.[6] It was subsequently extended again, and the vessel was under Marine Atlantic control up to March 2024.[7][needs update] Atlantic Vision operated on Marine Atlantic's services between North Sydney, Nova Scotia, and the Newfoundland ports of Channel-Port aux Basques and Argentia, Placentia.
The ship was built in 2002 as MV Superfast IX by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) in Kiel, Germany for Attica Group's subsidiary Superfast Ferries.[3]
She was the fastest RoPax and largest KW rating ferry operating in North America.
- ^ a b c "Atlantic Vision (31780)". Vessel Register for DNV. DNV. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
- ^ Port of registry: MS/Atlantic Vision[https://web.archive.org/web/20111015203031/http://www.marine-atlantic.ca/eng/our-fleet.asp?s=MVatlanticVision Archived 15 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 4 January 2012
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Asklander, Micke. "M/S Superfast IX (2002)". Fakta om Fartyg (in Swedish). Retrieved 2 April 2008.
- ^ a b c d "MV Atlantic Vision vessels specifications". Marine Atlantic. Archived from the original on 4 July 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2009.
- ^ a b c d "Tallink Superfast » Technical information". Tallink official website. Archived from the original on 30 March 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2008.
- ^ "Marine Atlantic renews lease for MV Atlantic Vision". CBC News. 3 February 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
- ^ "Marine Atlantic to renew lease on MV Atlantic Vision". The Telegram. 6 June 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2018.