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The vessel was launched in January 1980 as Visby for Rederi AB Gotland. She was the first of two identical ships built by Öresundsvarvet in Landskrona. Visby entered service between Gotland and the Swedish mainland ports of Nynäshamn and Oskarshamn. In 1987, the contract to run ferry services to Gotland was awarded to Gotlandslinjen.
Visby, built in 2019, as Visborg in Stockholm on 23 March 2019. Visborg, built in 2000, as Visby in 2008. Visby, built in 1980 in Nynashamn on 5 May 2002.. Destination Gotland is a Swedish ferry-line that runs state-subsidised domestic ferries from Nynäshamn and Oskarshamn to Visby on the island of Gotland.
[21] [22] Visby is also the only municipality seat of Sweden that is accessible from the mainland only by boat and air traffic. Visby is situated on the central west coast of Gotland, on the rather steep slopes of limestone cliffs surrounding the first natural harbor. The town has evolved around the medieval harbor that now constitutes the ...
The main port of call on Gotland is Visby. The city is visited by a number of cruise ships every year. [95] [96] About 40 cruise lines frequent the Baltic sea with Visby as one of their destinations. [97] In 2005, 147 ships docked at Visby, in 2010 the number was 69. [98] In 2014, 62 ships are scheduled to visit Visby. [99]
Ships using the route can avoid some of the bad weather in the open ocean and may visit some of the many isolated communities along the route. The Inside Passage is heavily travelled by cruise ships, freighters, tugs with tows, fishing craft, pleasure craft, and ships of the Alaska Marine Highway, BC Ferries, and Washington State Ferries ...
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Visby Airport was opened on 27 January 1942. The first aircraft to land was a Junkers Ju 52/3m named Göteland from AB Aerotransport. [6] In October of the same year, regular traffic between Visby and the Swedish mainland started, in the beginning mostly with Ju 52s.
In the 19th century the area went by the name Gamle Hamn (Old Port). When the area was planted with elms in the 1870s, the name Almedalen was coined. In Sweden, the name Almedalen is generally associated with the Almedalen Week, an annual event in Visby which is an important meeting place for everyone involved in Swedish politics. During the ...