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The secretariat is located at Lund University and at the University of Copenhagen. The commercial interaction across the border has also significantly increased. In 2018, an average of 19,100 vehicles crossed the bridge each day. [12] The ports of Copenhagen and Malmö were merged in 2001 to form a single company, Copenhagen Malmö Port.
Malmö's 1437 grant of arms. Malmö was for centuries Denmark's second-biggest city. The earliest written mention of Malmö as a city dates from 1275. [15] It is thought to have been founded shortly before that date, [15] as a fortified quay or ferry berth of the Archbishop of Lund, [16] 20 kilometres (12 miles) to the north-east.
Every year the ports in Copenhagen and Malmö receive about 4,500 ships. [8] CMP is the Nordic region's largest car port, handling almost 303,000 cars during 2018. [ 9 ] CMP has six car terminals covering a total of 800,000 square metres (8,600,000 sq ft) and four PDI centres to service them.
In September 2011, the local governments in Copenhagen and the neighbouring Malmö in Sweden announced that they were seeking European Union funding to study a potential metro line under the Øresund to the neighbourhood of Malmö Central Station, providing faster trips and additional capacity beyond that of the existing Øresund Bridge. [3]
The railway line approaches Copenhagen from the Continental Line south of Malmö and heads west, passing over the Øresund Bridge on the lower section of the Peberholm artificial island, under Copenhagen Airport to Copenhagen Central Station. In Malmö, the City Tunnel connects the railway directly to Malmö C.
In 2001, Copenhagen Harbour as an organisation merged with the harbour in Malmö to create Copenhagen-Malmö Port. It has several functions, the most important being as a major cruise destination. In 2007 a record 286 cruise ships with 420,000 cruise passengers visited Copenhagen. 120 of these ships either started or ended the cruise in Copenhagen.
Copenhagen [8] (Danish: København [kʰøpm̩ˈhɑwˀn] ⓘ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area. [9] [10] The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the Øresund strait.
The Øresund strait between Malmö and Copenhagen with Malmö in the foreground and the island of Amager and part of southern Copenhagen in the background. Greater Malmö (Stormalmö), also known as Metropolitan Malmö is the metropolitan area of Malmö in Sweden. The area is located in Southwestern Scania (Sydvästra Skåne), which is often ...