Norled (earlier Tide Sjø AS) is a Norwegian

shipping company A shipping line or shipping company is a company whose line of business is ownership and operation of ships. Shipping companies provide a method of distinguishing ships by different kinds of cargo: # Bulk cargo is a type of special cargo that is ...

responsible for the group's ferry transport. Tide operates automobile ferries and fast ferries in

Rogaland Rogaland () is a county in Western Norway, bordering the North Sea to the west and the counties of Vestland to the north, Vestfold og Telemark to the east and Agder to the east and southeast. In 2020, it had a population of 479,892. The admin ...

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, Sunnmøre and

Trondheim Fjord The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden (), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's third-longest fjord at long. It is located in the west-central part of the country in Trøndelag county, and it stretches from the municipality of Ørland ...

on contract with the

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, Kolumbus and

Skyss Skyss is the public authority that plans, purchases and markets the public transport services governed by the county authority in Vestland, Norway. Skyss does not have a board, but is governed by the county council. Skyss was established in 2007 ...

. The company operates 45 car ferries, 17 fast ferries and one

water bus A water taxi or a water bus is a watercraft used to provide public or private transport, usually, but not always, in an urban environment. Service may be scheduled with multiple stops, operating in a similar manner to a bus, or ...

. The name Tide Sjø was first used by HSD Sjø AS after

Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap (HSD), founded in 1880, was one of Norway's largest privately held public transportation providers. Its bus operation HSD Buss AS was founded in 1999, and serviced 15 million passengers annually in large ...

had 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 ...

. In 2007 Tide Sjø merged with

Stavangerske {{Infobox company , name = Stavangerske AS , logo = Stavangerske logo.jpg , logo_size = 175px , type = Subsidiary , foundation = 1990 , location = Stavanger, Norway , key_people = Egil Nylund (CEO) , area_served = Rogaland, Norway , indus ...

, its subsidiary Fjordservice and the Tide–Stavangerske joint venture Nor-Ferjer. After fissioning from Tide in December 2011, the company changed the name to Norled on 1 January 2012.

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{{Authority control Shipping companies of Norway Ferry companies of Møre og Romsdal Ferry companies of Rogaland Ferry companies of Trøndelag Ferry companies of Vestland Companies based in Bergen Norwegian companies established in 2007 Transport companies established in 2007

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