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Incat ferry (800 passengers & 220 cars. 91.3 metres. 5,617 tons) BornholmerFærgen - Denmark to Sweden. Villum Clausen Rønne-Ystad, 47.7 knots. Passenger car ferry (1055 passengers and 215 cars). Leonora Christina Rønne-Ystad, 40 knots. Passenger car ferry (1400 passengers and 357 cars). Stena Line HSS class 900 (High-speed Sea Service)
When car ferry traffic across the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden started, the Finnish Car Club, the Road Traffic Association and the Finnish Truck Association started pressuring shipping companies to improve car ferry traffic between Finland and Sweden. The first car ferry connection between Finland and Sweden was a route over the ...
The Helsingør–Helsingborg ferry route ("HH route") is a shipping route connecting Helsingør (Elsinore), Denmark and Helsingborg, Sweden across the northern, and narrowest part of the Øresund. Due to the short distance, which is less than 3 nautical miles , is it one of the world's busiest international car ferry routes, with around 70 ...
The Helsingør–Helsingborg ferry route crosses the narrowest part of the Øresund, taking about 20 minutes to traverse the 4-kilometre (2-nautical-mile) strait. The company owns five vessels, including the sister ships Tycho Brahe, Aurora af Helsingborg, and Hamlet, each of which has capacity for 240 cars and 1,250 passengers. [1] [2] [3]
VDOT provides free car ferry services in Southern Virginia, including the Jamestown Ferry; Washington State Ferries (northwest US) White's Ferry, a cable ferry between Maryland and Virginia; Woodland Ferry, cable ferry located in western Sussex County, Delaware, spanning the Nanticoke River at Woodland, Delaware, west of the city of Seaford
Tor Line was founded as a joint venture between the Swedish Trans Oil Shipping and Rex Shipping to operate car-passenger ferries between Sweden, England and the Netherlands. The company name was an abbreviation of the founding companies' names, Trains Oil and Rex Line. [2] Tor Line begun passenger operations in 1966 and freight operations in 1969.
Alternative fuels are becoming more widespread on ferries. The fastest passenger ferry in the world Buquebus, runs on LNG, while Sweden's Stena converted one of its ferries to run on both diesel and methanol in 2015. [66] Both LNG and methanol reduce CO 2 emissions considerably and replace costly diesel fuel.
In Sweden, E20 is a motorway from the Öresund Bridge in Malmö to Alingsås 48 km northeast of Gothenburg, a 330 km (210 mi) long motorway. Furthermore, it is a motorway most of the route from Vretstorp (20 km (12 mi) west of Örebro) to Stockholm. The Swedish part of E20 is 770 km (480 mi) long.