Jolly Express

Jolly Express is a cargo ship operated by Messina Line between Tunis, Naples, and Genoa. It was previously operated by Toll Shipping and Brambles Shipping in Australia as the Tasmanian Achiever.

Tasmanian Achiever in Burnie in 2017
History
Name	Jolly Express
Owner	Mediterranean Shipping Company
Operator	Brambles Shipping (1999–2002) Toll Shipping (2002-2019) Messina Line (2019-)
Port of registry	Madeira
Builder	Samsung Heavy Industries, Geoje, South Korea
In service	1999
Renamed	Tasmanian Achiever (1999–2019) Jolly Express (2019-)
Identification	IMO number: 9180190 MMSI number: 503087000 Call sign: CQAT4
General characteristics
Type	Container and Roll-on/roll-off
Tonnage	20,343 GT, 11,000 DWT
Length	183 m (600 ft 5 in)
Beam	22 m (72 ft 2 in)
Draught	6.35 m (20 ft 10 in)
Installed power	14,720 kW (19,740 hp) at 750 rpm
Propulsion	4 x Wärtsilä 8L32
Speed	20.5 knots (38.0 km/h; 23.6 mph)
Capacity	592 TEU, 2,524 lane-metres

History

The Jolly Express was built by Samsung Heavy Industries as the Tasmanian Achiever for Brambles Shipping for use on Bass Strait services between Melbourne and Burnie, along with sister ship Victorian Reliance. The ship was acquired by Toll Shipping with the Brambles shipping business in 2002.^[1][2]

It was extended by 32 metres to 184 metres in Singapore in 2004.^[3] When CMA CGM, parent company of Australian National Line, withdrew the Bass Trader from the Melbourne to Bell Bay route in 2009, it entered into a joint venture to transfer cargo to the Toll ships.^[4] As such it carried both Toll and ANL logos.

In March 2019 it was replaced by the larger Tasmanian Achiever II. It was sold to Messina Line, renamed Jolly Express and began operating on the Mediterranean Sea between Tunis, Naples and Genoa.^[5][6]