Finnlines
| Finnlines Oyj
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| legal form | Joint stock company (Finland) |
| ISIN | FI0009003644 |
| founding | April 18, 1947 |
| Seat |
Helsinki , Finland
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| management | Jon-Aksel Torgersen ( COB ), Emanuele Grimaldi ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | 1,588 (Dec 31, 2015) |
| sales | 511.2 million euros (2015) |
| Branch | shipping |
| Website | www.finnlines.com |
Finnlines Oyj (Finnlines AG) is a Finnish shipping company with freight traffic in Northern and Western Europe as well as passenger traffic on the Baltic Sea .
In the past, Finnlines operated ships under the brand names Finncarriers , Finnflow Systems , Finnjet Lines and FG Shipping Oy AB . Since 2006 the Italian Grimaldi Group has owned the majority of Finnlines. They currently hold 100% of the shares. Further features include the Finnlink (Finland - Sweden), NordöLink (Germany - Sweden), Polfin Line (Poland), TransRussiaExpress (Germany - Russia) as well as the port operator Finnsteve for Finnlines group.
history
Finnlines was founded on April 18, 1947. In May and June three ships were acquired for traffic in Europe. In the same year it was decided to operate ships between America and Finland. For this purpose the steam ships Hamina , Pankakoski and Tornator were acquired .
In 1962 Finnlines opened a route from Hanko via Visby on Gotland to Travemünde with the ferry Hansa Express . The ship quickly turned out to be too small and so the route was changed to Helsinki - Kalmar - Travemünde in 1963 . In 1966 two new ferries were delivered for the route: the sister ships Finnhansa and Finnpartner . The Finnhansa exceeded the Finnpartner by ten centimeters. At that time it was the largest ship on the Baltic Sea.
In 1977 Enso-Gutzeit , a Finnlines subsidiary , had the Finnjet gas turbine ship built. This corresponded to a revolution, before Finnlines used much slower ships on the route. So it was possible to complete the route in just 22 hours. In 1982, Effoa , another Finnlines subsidiary, took over 57%. From 1986 to 1989 Effoa operated the ship alone.
service
Finnlines Ro-Ro cargo ships serve Finland , Russia , Sweden , Latvia , Poland , Germany , Denmark , the United Kingdom , the Netherlands , Belgium , France and Spain . Finnlines offers a combined freight and passenger service on the routes Helsinki - Lübeck-Travemünde , Naantali - Kapellskär (Finnlink), and Malmö - Lübeck-Travemünde (Nordö Link). In June 2009, the Helsinki - Gdynia and Gdynia - Rostock routes were added to the offer, which are served by Star-Class ferries.
Lübeck-Travemünde - Helsinki
Finnlines is currently using three modern RoPax ferries on this route . The Star class ferries serve the route with a crossing time of 28 hours.
Lübeck-Travemünde - Malmö
Finnlines offers freight and passenger services between Lübeck-Travemünde (Germany) and Malmö (Sweden) under the name Nordö Link . This route is currently served by three RoPax ferries. In mid-February 2009 the Nordlink was withdrawn from the route. The Europalink also switched to the Lübeck-Travemünde-Helsinki route in mid-April 2009 and was replaced by the Finneagle . In the course of 2011 there was a fleet rotation: the four ships Finnpartner , Finntrader , Finneagle and Finnclipper operated the route with three departures a day and switched to the Lübeck – St. Route every four weeks for one week. Petersburg. In October 2012 the Finneagle was replaced by the Nordlink , which returned to the Sweden route after three and a half years.
The Finnpartner and her sister ship, the Finntrader , replaced the Lübeck Link and the Malmö Link after a stay in the shipyard near Remontowa (Gdansk), where bow gates were installed and passenger capacities increased .
Kapellskar - Naantali
Under the name FinnLink , Finnlines provides freight and passenger services between Naantali (Finland) and Kapellskär (Sweden). This route is served by three modern RoPax ships.
Rostock - Hanko
From January 19, 2015, the Finnmerchant will operate the route. From the end of 2015 / beginning of 2016, the route will be operated by the carriers and traders that Finnlines acquired from Eckerö Shipping in early 2015 .
Other routes
Finnlines also operates ferry connections between the cities:
- Rostock - Helsinki
- Gdynia (Poland) - Helsinki
- Lübeck - Ventspils (Latvia) - Saint Petersburg (Russia)
More ships
- Finnpulp
- Finnmill
- Finnbreeze
- Finnsea
- Finnsky
- Finnsun
- Finntide
- Finnwave
- Finnhawk
- Finnkraft
- Finnmaster
- Finnmercant
Former ships
- Finnarrow (built in 1996) operated from July 2013 to autumn 2014 as Euroferry Brindisi for Grimaldi Lines in the Mediterranean, then sold
- Finnjet , sold to Silja Line in 1987, canceled in Alang in 2008
- Finlandia
- Finntrader (built 1951)
- Bore Star , winter charter 1975/1976, 1976/1977, marketed under the name Finnpartner for cruises around the Canary Islands
- Finnpulp (built 1953)
- Finnsailor (built 1953)
- Hansa Express (built 1963)
- Lübeck Link : 1990–2007, 2007 to Channel Ferries, canceled in 2017 in Alang
- Malmö Link : 1990-2007, 2007 to Channel Ferries
- Transeuropa , sold to the Mediterranean in November 2013; new name: Euroferry Olympia
- Translubeca , sold to the Black Sea in November 2013; new name: Poseidon Express
- Finnhansa (built 1994), sold in autumn 2014
- Finnclipper
- Finneagle
- Finncarrier
Individual evidence
- ↑ Board of Directors ( Memento of the original dated February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Finnlines.
- ↑ a b Finnlines Annual Report 2015 , Finnlines, March 17, 2015, accessed December 8, 2016
- ↑ YLE News (Finnish)
- ^ M / S Finnsailor. Retrieved August 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Finnlines opens new route Rostock - Hanko. January 16, 2015, accessed January 17, 2015 .
- ↑ Finnlines buys two Ro Ro ships from Eckerö Shipping. January 13, 2015, accessed January 17, 2015 .
- ^ Eckhard-Herbert Arndt: Fleet adjustment at Finnlines . In: Daily port report of October 30, 2014, p. 13
- ↑ Finlandia. Retrieved September 12, 2013 .
- ↑ Bore stat. Retrieved September 22, 2013 .
literature
- Klaus Nienaber: Finnlines cargo ferry "Finnsun" . In: Hansa , Heft 6/2012, S. 38/39, Schiffahrts-Verlag Hansa, Hamburg 2012, ISSN 0017-7504
