Corsica Linea Schedules 2026

Corsica Linea started sailing on 5 January 2016, out of the collapse of another company. When the historic SNCM went bankrupt, a consortium of Corsican entrepreneurs bought most of what was left — the ships, the routes, the crews — and put it back to sea. The vessels were repainted from blue to red, and the public service obligation to Corsica carried on.

Two coastlines, not one

Most operators on this site work a single stretch of water. This one runs nine vessels across two entirely different networks from the French Mediterranean coast: north to Corsica and south to North Africa. Our data holds 17 routes covering both — Marseille to Ajaccio, Bastia, Île-Rousse and Propriano, and Marseille or Sète to Algiers, Béjaïa, Skikda and Tunis.

These crossings are measured in days

Nothing here is a hop. The Corsican routes run roughly 10 to 14 hours — Marseille to Ajaccio is timetabled between 660 and 765 minutes, Marseille to Bastia at 780. The North African ones are longer again: Marseille to Algiers 1,200 to 1,260 minutes, Marseille to Tunis anywhere from 1,230 to 1,560. That upper figure is 26 hours at sea, and the return from Algiers carries an outlier at 2,040 minutes — thirty-four hours. On a network like this the sailing is the overnight accommodation, not a gap between two hotels.

Sète is the second door

Marseille is the obvious port, but the Algerian services also work from Sète, further west along the Languedoc coast. Sète to Béjaïa and Sète to Skikda appear here with a handful of departures each, and Skikda has no equivalent from Marseille in our data at all. If you are looking for a specific Algerian port, checking only the Marseille listings will miss half the network.

Frequency is the constraint, not duration

Individual routes carry very few departures — three each for Ajaccio and Bastia, one for Béjaïa to Marseille, one for Skikda to Sète. On a crossing that occupies a full day and night, a ship can only make so many round trips, and the timetable reflects vessel availability rather than demand. Missing a sailing here does not mean waiting an hour.

A public service, run privately

The Corsican routes exist under the territorial continuity arrangement that obliges the French state to keep the island connected year-round, at regulated conditions, rather than only when it is commercially attractive. Corsica Linea inherited that role from SNCM along with the ships. It is the same logic behind the Norwegian coastal contract or the Gotland agreement elsewhere on this site: the route runs in February because someone has undertaken that it will.