Transtejo "Almadense" – Navalria
Ferry operated by Transtejo seen on the Tejo River arriving at the Estação Fluvial da Trafaria in October 2019. This ferry of the catamaran type, named Almadense and registered LX-3205-TL, is a Navalria build completed in 2010, yard number 3. Steel hull and superstructure. It has an overall length of 155.8 ft and can accommodate 360 passengers and 29 vehicles (360+29V+4). Two elevators allow the easy access of passengers with reduced mobility to the upper deck. Vogelsitze Pino 300 seats. It uses two 634 kW (850 hp) Caterpillar C32 ACERT main engines and two variable-pitch propellers. Service speed is 11 knots. Its class includes two vessels, Almadense and Lisbonense , built in Portugal by Navalria. Established in 1975 and based in Lisboa , Transtejo operates regular services and occasional services on the Tejo River estuary. Here, we see the Almadense on the Belém–Porto Brandão–Trafaria regular service, a crossing of approximately 2.2 nautical miles. The name Almadense , demon...