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So the ferries started trafficking from Helsinki to Stockholm in 1972 to lengthen a two-way trip to over 24 hours. The first ferries to depart from Helsinki were Silja Line's MS Aallotar and MS Svea Regina, and in 1974 Viking Line brought their own ships to the route, the German-built Viking 5 and the Canadian-bought 1967 ship Viking 6. [28]
MS Silja Serenade is a cruiseferry owned by the Estonian shipping company Tallink Grupp, [3] operating under their Silja Line brand on a route connecting Helsinki to Stockholm via Mariehamn. She was built in 1990 by Masa-Yards at Turku New Shipyard , Finland.
On November 21, she made her first voyage between Stockholm and Mariehamn. In 1972, Prinsessan ' s sister ship MS Olav was bought and renamed MS Baronessan . In 1973 Birka started traffic on the routes Stockholm– Helsinki with MS Freeport and Stockholm–Helsinki– Leningrad with MS Drottningen .
Viking Cinderella in the Stockholm Archipelago. Viking Line decided to withdraw Cinderella from the Helsinki–Tallinn route after the end of the 2003 summer seasons, due to increased competition from Tallink's newer MS Romantika and the fact that tax-free sales on the route would end in 2004 when Estonia joined the EU.
Helsinki – Mariehamn – Stockholm: Mariehamn, Finland MS Gabriella: Cruiseferry 1992 1997– 35,492 GT: 2.420 400 21,5 Helsinki – Mariehamn – Stockholm Mariehamn, Finland MS Viking XPRS: Cruiseferry 2008 2008– 35,918 GT: 2.500 240 25 Helsinki – Tallinn: Mariehamn, Finland MS Viking Grace: Cruiseferry 2013 2013– 57,565 GT: 2.800 500 22
In December of the same year her engines were upgraded with so-called water-spray technology that greatly reduced nitrogen oxide emissions. In order to keep tax free sales on the Helsinki–Stockholm ships when the EU changed its tax free legislation, a stop at Mariehamn was added to the route in June 1999. On 6 August 2001, a swarm of fish got ...
The company was founded in 2010 with it starting operations in April of that year. In December 2010, St. Peter Line acquired the cruiseferry named Pride of Bilbao from Irish Continental Group for €37.7m [3] for a new route between St Petersburg and Stockholm. Limited passenger services were run in 2018, but most of the 2019 programme was ...
Originally the collaboration agreement applied only on service between Turku and Stockholm, but it was also applied to the Helsinki–Stockholm route in 1928. As a precursor to the policies later adopted by Silja Line, each of the three companies ordered a near-identical ship for Helsinki–Stockholm service to coincide with the 1952 Summer ...