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The crossing takes 20 minutes and the vessels only need 10 minutes in port, so the same ferry regularly departs from both ends of the route inside every hour. This is not the same for Mercandia IV as only take trucks cargo. Therefore the ferry does not run at exactly 15 minute intervals, and there is a separate timetable for trucks.
Hurtigruten (lit. ' Express Route ' ), formally Kystruten Bergen-Kirkenes ("coastal route Bergen - Kirkenes "), [ 1 ] is a Norwegian public coastal route transporting passengers that travel locally, regionally and between the ports of call, and also cargo between ports north of Tromsø .
Sailing the original and iconic route of the Hurtigruten (literally "The Fast Route"), Hurtigruten AS stops at 34 ports from the southern city of Bergen and the northeastern city of Kirkenes. A daily passenger ferry, cruise, and shipping line along the western and northern Norwegian coast. [2] A total of 8 ships operate the route.
TS Leda, a BDS Newcastle to Bergen ferry in October 1973. The Bergen Steamship Company (Norwegian: Bergenske Dampskibsselskab) (BDS), was founded in 1851 by Michael Krohn to operate a shipping service between the Norwegian ports of Bergen, Stavanger, and Kristiansand and the German port of Hamburg with the paddle steamer Bergen. The company ...
MS Nordkapp is a Hurtigruten (Norwegian Coastal Express) ship built in 1996 by Kleven Verft AS, Norway, for Ofotens og Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab for use in Hurtigruten ferry service along the coast of Norway. She is a sister ship of MS Polarlys and MS Nordnorge.
MS Otto Sverdrup (call sign LDBE), [2] formerly known as MS Finnmarken, is a Norwegian coastal ship owned and operated by Hurtigruten ASA.It was built in 2002 at Kværner Kleven, Ulsteinvik, Norway, and cost around 750 million Norwegian Kroner (nok).
Havila Kystruten AS (known as Havila Voyages internationally) is a Norwegian shipping company that operates 4 out of 11 ships on the coastal route Bergen-Kirkenes-Bergen (commonly known as Hurtigruten). The company is listed on Euronext Growth Oslo, [1] and the largest shareholder is Havila Holding AS from Fosnavåg. [2] The CEO is Bent Martini ...
MS Vesterålen is a passenger vessel operated by the Norwegian-based Hurtigruten. The vessel was constructed in Harstad, Norway in 1983. She was refitted in Bremerhaven, Germany in 1989 to increase passenger capacity, and then later in 1995. As of 2010, the ship operates cruises primarily along the coast of Norway. [1] [3]