Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap (HSD), founded in 1880, was one of Norway's largest privately held public transportation providers. Its

bus A bus (contracted from omnibus, with variants multibus, motorbus, autobus, etc.) is a road vehicle that carries significantly more passengers than an average car or van. It is most commonly used in public transport, but is also in use for cha ...

operation HSD Buss AS was founded in 1999, and serviced 15 million passengers annually in large parts of western Norway, predominantly in

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. It also had a

ferry A ferry is a ship, watercraft or amphibious vehicle used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water taxi ...

service, HSD Sjø AS, transporting passengers along the west coast of Norway. The fleet consisted of 31 ferries and 10

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s as of 2006. In 2006 the company merged with

Gaia Trafikk Gaia Trafikk was the largest public transportation provider in Bergen and Os, Norway until it merged with HSD forming Tide. Gaia was formed by the 1998 merger of Pan Trafikk, the bus company serving northern and southern Bergen, and Bergen S ...

forming the new company

Tide Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravity, gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another. Tide t ...

Vessels

Some of the vessels owned and operated by HSD. * (1913) * (1931) * MS ''Sunnhordland'' (1947) * MS ''Stord'' (1970) * MS ''Tysnes'' (1970) * (1999)

References

* * Defunct bus companies of Norway Companies formerly listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange Bus companies of Vestland Ferry companies of Vestland Companies established in 1880 Companies disestablished in 2006 1880 establishments in Norway 2006 disestablishments in Norway Logistics companies of Norway {{Norway-shipping-company-stub