3Ship Oesterreichischer Lloyd Cruises is primarily about a sustainable project that is looking for investors who want to participate in future projects with a lighthouse character.
The itinerary was selected based on three criteria.
First, the latitudes of the route are about 20° North/ 20° South from the equator, going east.
Secondly, the wind directions as well as the ocean currents.
Thirdly, the attractiveness of the destinations over the 7 years that a ship goes on a voyage before returning to the marina in Limassol to be serviced.
Starting in 2025, the first flotilla of three SUNREEF ECO SAIL 80 catamarans (80 feet in length or 24 meters) will leave the GDANSK shipyard for the Mediterranean. Via Kiel and Hamburg, the first fotilla arrive with a stop in Lisbon along the Atlantic coast passing Faro, Gibraltar to Mallorca on the Balearic Islands. The first part of the journey takes approx. 130 days.
From Mallorca, they travel via Marseille and Cannes along the French coast of the Mediterranean with a stop in Cagliari (Italy) to Corfu and Crete in Greece before arriving in Rhodes – the last stop before the home port of Limassol in Cyprus.
The next passage in January 2026 with Flotilla 1 will begin with the voyage through the Suez Canal across the Red Sea to Egypt with two stops in Sharm el Sheikh and Hurghada.
Afterwards, the Red Sea will be crossed and after a visit to the Brother Islands – a recognized diving spot – the coast of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be approached and, among other things, the islands of „The RED SEA“ will be intensively dived. We continue from Jaizan (KSA) with a stop on Socrata via the Comoros and Mayotte towards Madagascar and on to the Seychelles, which are planned for a longer stay.
After crossing to the Maldives, the experience begins on Hanimaadhoo before heading to the North Male Atoll. After a few days‘ stay, the flotilla heads to the last stop in the Maldives, the Addu Atoll.
A longer tour starts in the direction of Thailand with the first destination: the port city of Phuket. Via Langkawi (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) we continue to Jakarta with a stop in Singapore. This is where the section for the multi-layered world of islands such as Bali and Lombok in Indonesia begins.
The next leg of the journey starts in Dilli on the north coast of the island of East Timor and leads to Australia for a few weeks. The arrival point is Darwin in the north and then follows one of the most beautiful passages via Wessel Island, Gallwinku, Gove, Isle Woodah and Karumba, with a detour to the north to Papua New Guinea to the Barrier Reef to Cairns and Airlie Beach. Other stopovers include Gladstone and Brisbane before the crossing to New Zealand begins.
Arriving in Kerikeri on the north coast of New Zealand, we travel from the settlement in the Bay of Islands along the coast through the South Pacific Ocean to the Kingdom of Tonga and on to the Cook Islands. After a stop-over, the ships depart and reach French Polynesia, the island of Bora Bora and the capital Papeete. The Republic of Kiribati in Micronesia is used as a stopover for the big „blow“ to Hawaii. Then it’s off to Central America. La Paz in Mexico at the southern tip of the Baja California Peninsula is the next stop in Central America. The cruise begins at the Galapagos Island of San Cristobal (Ecuador, South America) and continues through the Panama Canal to the Caribbean. The islands of Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Grenada, St. Lucia, Martinique, Bonaire, Grenada, Antigua and Saint Martin will be visited.
Passing Puerto Rico and Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic, the course is set for the Bahamas. Another visit to Bermuda and then across the Atlantic to the Azores. The journey ends via Lisbon, Faro, Gibraltar, Ibiza, through the Ionian Sea in the home port of Limassol in Cyprus.