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The Port of Nynäshamn (Swedish: Nynäshamn) is a ferry terminal in the municipality of Nynäshamn, Sweden. [1] The port is part of the Stockholm Ports. [2] From Nynäshamn there are services to Visby, Gdańsk and Ventspils. Ferry services to Gotland started as early as 1902. [3]
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.
The ferry terminal in the harbour. Train at Visby railway station during the last year of traffic, 1960. Visby is linked to the mainland of Sweden by ferry and by plane. Ferries arrive from both Oskarshamn in Småland and Nynäshamn, near Stockholm, each taking about three hours.
Initially, there was a change of trains at Älvsjö, but from 1909 onwards trains starting running directly to Stockholm Central Station. To being with, one of the major traffic generators was the ferry service to Gotland. In 1928, an oil refinery was opened and the line started transporting oil.
After the Soviet Union had disbanded and the Baltic countries had regained inpendence, new ferry routes started rapidly appearing from Helsinki and Stockholm to Tallinn and other coastal cities on the Baltic Sea. After Estonia, Sweden and Finland had joined the European Union the Baltic Sea cruiseferry traffic became an important factor among ...
Viking Line's history can be traced back to 1959, when a group of sea- and businessmen from the Åland Islands province in Finland formed Rederi Ab Vikinglinjen, purchased a steam-powered car-ferry SS Dinard from the UK, renamed her SS Viking and began service on the route Korpo (Finland)–Mariehamn (Åland)–Gräddö (Sweden).
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.
Hansa Destinations is a Swedish ferry line that runs ferries from Nynäshamn and Visby in Sweden to Rostock in Germany. It is a wholly owned daughter company of Rederi AB Gotland. [4] The fleet consists of one ferry. [5]